Sentences with phrase «of cork oak»

Cork comes from the bark of the cork oak tree (without destroying it), and is both highly durable and water - resistant, making it a great option for many areas, especially the kitchen and playroom.

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.

The cork is a tissue (phellem) made of bark of cork oak (Quercus suber L.).

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.

You'll find endless quiet beaches, as well as pure rural areas covered with vineyards, olive groves and a vast amount of cork oaks and stunning pine trees which makes it a perfect Portugal holiday destination.

Not exact matches

G3 is a distributor of Diam cork for still wine and Mytik cork for Champagne / sparkling wine, Boise oak chips, and one - way Petainer kegs; as well as an exclusive co-packer for Zipz single - serve packaging solutions.

It's the national tree of the United States, Germany, and a dozen other countries — as well as the stuff of corks and fine wine barrels — yet little is known about where the North American oak tree came from.

The cork oak has a lifetime of 250 to 350 years; it's the only tree whose bark regenerates itself after each harvest every nine years.

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 grows a bark that is flexible enough to remove from the branch, and the resultant section of bark makes a perfect retreat.

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.

Apparently without protection of the cork forests (cork is harvested from the bark of a special oak tree roughly every 9 years and then allowed to grow back - some still productive trees are well over 200 years old), then habitat and livelihoods may be lost.

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.

Perhaps people shy away from cork flooring because they think of the flimsiness of corkboards and wine corks, but Yee raves about this material, which is made from the bark of an oak tree (and can be harvested without cutting down the tree).