Nature’s quiet luxury
Amorim transforms sustainably harvested cork into design materials of warmth, resilience, and timeless sophistication.
Chapter 1: Origins
Rooted in nature
Amorim’s story began over 150 years ago in Portugal, built on a deep respect for cork oak forests and a tradition of craftsmanship. What started as a family business producing cork stoppers has grown into the world's largest producer, exporting across more than 100 countries.
The company’s origins are tightly intertwined with the Montado—the cork oak ecosystem—where cork bark is harvested every nine years without harming the trees, allowing them to live and regenerate for centuries while supporting biodiversity and rural livelihoods.
Legacy grown from bark
Chapter 2: Performance
Form meets function
Amorim Cork is celebrated for combining natural materiality with performance: cork is lightweight, compressible, elastic, and resilient with excellent thermal and acoustic insulation, as well as natural fire resistance.
Their products aren’t just about passive traits: cork’s structure dampens sound and helps moderate temperature, while being durable against abrasion and compression, making it suitable in applications ranging from flooring and wall coverings to insulation and sports surfaces.
Nature's strength in use
Chapter 3: Design
Beauty shaped by nature’s logic
Whether in natural cork, agglomerated cork, or expanded composites, Amorim offers textures, finishes and forms that embrace cork’s inherent tactile warmth—variations of grain, colour, compressibility which bring surfaces alive.
Beyond aesthetics, design choices are guided by innovation: from advanced manufacturing to inclusion of recycled cork, from design for end-of-life recycling to developing products (planks, decorative boards, insulation panels) that respond visually, acoustically, and materially to their setting.
Design that honors its roots
Chapter 4: Versatility
One origin, infinite outcomes
Amorim cork adapts across contexts: used in wine stoppers, flooring, wall coverings, sports surfaces, insulation, decorative objects, and architectural finishes. Its properties make it suited for both high-performance and design-driven applications.
Its lightweight nature, flexibility, and compatibility with different attachment systems and substrate types mean cork can be used in flooring that cushions, panels that absorb sound, insulation that adds thermal comfort, and façades that embrace both function and form.
Adapted for every space
Chapter 5: Responsibility
Growing with purpose
Amorim’s sustainability isn’t just a practice, it’s part of the material’s essence: cork oak forests sequester CO₂; harvested without felling; the bark regenerates; waste is reused, and by-products (like cork dust) serve as biomass for energy.
Programs like Green Cork, Cork2Cork, and others around the world collect used cork stoppers to be transformed into granules for flooring, décor, insulation—and the unused fractions return to energy generation—closing loops and ensuring cork contributes positively not just as resource, but as circular opportunity.
