Sentences with phrase «cork oak in»

Cork is the main non-timber forest product in the Mediterranean region, and its usage is essential to preserve thousands of hectares of cork oak in southern European and Maghreb countries.

Not exact matches

The umbrella is by Pelcor, a Portuguese brand that makes accessories from cork, a renewable plant fabric extracted from the cork oak tree that thrives in the Mediterranean.

She is the Santa Rosa, she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmö.

Cork oak also has the advantage of being comparatively soft — lizards don't seem to get their nails caught in it — and flame resistant, so an errant tube that gets jostled up next to a heat source is reluctant even to smoke.

In addition to using hydroelectric power, Sole also implements carbon offsets and replants cork oak trees; to date, more than 8,000 cork oak trees have been planted.

Traditional cork, carved from the bark of a type of oak tree found mostly in Portugal and the Mediterranean, have about 150 years of life in them but can only be harvested every 9 — 12 years.

It is a temporary construction made of steel and two different types of cork, a material the Portuguese Cork Association has been pushing with PR in order to keep a sustainable practice from turning into the unsustainable practice of having to clear oak woods if they become economically unviacork, a material the Portuguese Cork Association has been pushing with PR in order to keep a sustainable practice from turning into the unsustainable practice of having to clear oak woods if they become economically unviaCork Association has been pushing with PR in order to keep a sustainable practice from turning into the unsustainable practice of having to clear oak woods if they become economically unviable.

The struggle to maintain cork oak or any other natural community in Spain and Portugal will be a difficult one.

How it will impact you: In recent years, cork, a renewable material harvested from the bark of cork oak trees, has resurfaced as a favorite for myriad uses, and for good reason.

Granorte has also taken an eco approach in choosing to print its oak designs on a cork base.