Blackcork is the just-launched furniture brand of Sofalca, a Portuguese manufacturer of cork products since 1966. Sofalca’s black, expanded cork agglomerate, used for thermic and acoustic insulation, is made only with the bark from cork-oak branches (falca in Portuguese). Water vapor is injected through the cork pellets, expanding them and agglutinating with the cork’s resins. The process give the “cooked” cork a variegated deep chocolate brown color and a soft, lightly textured surface. The process uses no chemicals, and the steam is produced from the waste biomass of the branches, making the production some 95% self-sufficient and 100% recyclable.
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