Supports Sustainability and Environmental Protection through the "Suber-protected Villages" Programme developed in partnership with Quercus. The project actively engages local communities in reforestation efforts, with cork oak tree planting strengthening environmental conservation and rural protection. With plans to expand, the programme continues to promote a sustainable future.

Corticeira Amorim integrates its insulation solutions into the FLORA project, led by students from the Master's degree in Advanced Ecological Buildings and Biocities at Parc Natural de Collserola, Barcelona. This innovative initiative reflects a strong commitment to sustainability and innovation.

Corticeira Amorim highlights cork’s versatility in "Not Post-Modernism. Dan Graham and 20th-Century Architecture" at the Serralves Museum. Curated by Bartomeu Marí, the exhibition explores Graham’s architectural influences, featuring a space designed by Atelier Bow-Wow.

Corticeira Amorim partners with the exhibition "Generation Proxima: Emerging Environmental Practices in Portuguese Architecture," on display at the Center for Architecture in New York. In this exhibition, cork plays a vital role, standing out as a material of excellence in terms of performance and sustainability. Its presence is not merely decorative: underlays and composites from Amorim Cork Composites, as well as expanded cork agglomerate from Amorim Cork Insulation, have been used in various applications, from building models to design elements that clad sections of the gallery walls.

ROZ BARR ARCHITECTS chooses cork for the staircase project at the Building Centre, a hub for the built environment since 1931. As part of a gallery redesign, the project introduces a radical shift in sustainable materials, resulting in the world’s first suspended cork staircase. Durable, versatile, and carbon-neutral, cork showcases how under-utilised materials can redefine modern design.

Heritage House receives a special donation from François Audouze, a French steel industrialist and fine wine enthusiast. He contributed part of his precious collection of cork stoppers, some dating back to before 1690.

Developed in collaboration with Corticeira Amorim’s distributor in Italy, Tecnosugheri, Casa Quattro receives the prestigious Casa Clima award. Designed by Luca Compri, founder of LCA Studio in Varese, this 100% sustainable house showcases the innovative use of natural materials such as wood, straw and cork.

Developed by Amorim Cork Insulation in collaboration with Marcelo Moscheta, the Municipality of Sabugal, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Conic Infinite is a shelter nestled within the Vale Carapito Wildlife Reserve. The project showcases the combined skills of local artisans working with stone, weaving and cork, in two conic structures that seamlessly blend with their surroundings.

The MAC020 Heavy Mass Layer by Amorim Cork Composites enhances acoustic performance and sustainability in cars, buses, trains, and more. This solution combines cork with thermoplastics, creating a fully recyclable material that provides acoustic insulation in cabins or as a multilayer panel to improve damping performance.

Selected by a highly reputable jury, the winners of the annual Global Prize Designs are considered as the definitive list of the world’s best furniture, lighting, textile, floor, and wall covering products. Amorim Wise Origem, a collection made of cork and inspired by the colours of the cork oak forest ("Montado"), and Burel Cork Wall, a collection that combines two of the most traditional Portuguese materials: cork and burel, receive the award in the Floor and Wall coverings category.

Amorim Cork Composites' i.corkfactory once again becomes a dynamic learning hub, this time welcoming a new group of students from Pratt Institute in New York.

Corticeira Amorim finances six scholarships, covering 100% of the tuition fees for Forestry Engineering BSc degrees at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, University of Porto, Instituto Superior de Agronomia and Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra. This initiative is part of an unprecedented public-private partnership that includes three other Portuguese companies—Altri, Sonae Arauco and The Navigator Company.

Tom Dixon Studio partners with Amorim Cork Composites to showcase the CHOICE collection in Milan, featuring a cork backdrop and the CORK family.

Corticeira Amorim and Parsons School of Design sign a cooperation agreement that allows students from the New York design college to explore the benefits, qualities, and characteristics of cork. This initiative positions cork as a material of choice for the design and development of creative proposals in industrial design, architecture, arts, interior design and related fields.

Amorim Cork Composites launches the “Cork. Naturally Durable” campaign, showcasing the advantages of cork underlayments over foam alternatives.

Cork from Corticeira Amorim is chosen for the Suber Cork Second Life project, that is distinguished with the C-IDEA Golden Award 2022—one of Australia’s most prestigious annual design awards. Following a meticulous selection process involving 48 jurors from 37 different countries, the international jury grants the top prize to Amorim Cork Italia’s initiative, which, since 2019, has been giving a second life to recycled cork stoppers.

Cork supplied by Corticeira Amorim used on the floor of  MONOCABs, a project that aims to offer a second life to existing railway lines in Germany’s rural areas. Cork endows lightness, comfort and thermal, acoustic and anti-vibration insulation to the vehicle. At the same time, the genuinely Portuguese raw material helps reduce the environmental footprint of this new means of transport.

Cork supplied by Amorim Cork Composites used inside the new Mobilize all-electric cars - the Renault Group's urban mobility brand. Integrated into the seats of the Mobilize Duo and Mobilize Solo models and also the interior rear panel of the latter vehicle, cork was chosen because it is a natural and sustainable raw material. Cork endows comfort, well-being and lightness to both vehicles.

“Micro | Macro” is the name of the temporary pavilion designed by the Japanese artist, Ryoji Ikeda (1966, Gifu, Japan) for Serralves. It is the place for a sensory and mental experience, that the Portuguese architect, Nuno Brandão Costa, designed in an ephemeral architecture project, that solely uses eco-sustainable materials, including, in particular, cork supplied by Amorim Cork Insulation.

In this project, Amorim Cork Composites partners with Trampedach to create a three-dimensional interpretation of the Fibonacci Sequence. Built on a large scale, these pieces of cork furniture invite visitors to rearrange, climb and comfortably sit on them, offering firsthand experience of cork's unique tactile qualities, exhibited at Fabrikken for Kunst og Design as part of S.E. (Snedkernes Efterårsudstilling).

Corticeira Amorim supplies cork for the insulation and interiors of the Maison du Jardin, a circular building exhibited at Boisbuchet, to celebrate French design at the French Design Week.

Made from metal mesh, steel, concrete, light fittings and cork supplied by Amorim Cork Composites the piece "One-seater Concrete Tree" by the Spanish artist Nacho Carbonell is displayed at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, in Los Angeles.

With sustainability in mind, the flower beds of the Serralves Foundation's Rose Garden were covered with a black fabric which prevents weeds from growing and eliminates fungus. Granulated cork was applied, instead of the pine bark usually used to cover the ground.

A collaboration between M.A.R. Kayaks and Amorim Cork Composites, NELO Kayaks use cork to favour its technical performance, through this natural material’s excellent damping capacity, low resin absorption and high resistance to fresh and salt water.

A collaboration between M.A.R. Kayaks and Amorim Cork Composites, NELO Kayaks use cork to favour its technical performance, through this natural material’s excellent damping capacity, low resin absorption and high resistance to fresh and salt water.

Google's first physical store in the world, whose furniture includes Portuguese cork, wins the top prize in the Environmental Impact category of the NYCxDESIGN Awards 2022.

The new product, produced by Amorim Cork Composites, is a new underlayment containing Nike Grind made from materials that combine cork and manufacturing scrap from the footwear industry.

Corticeira Amorim and Hape join forces to explore the global market for cork-based toys. The result is Korko, a joint venture created to meet the growing demand for safe, ecological and natural toys.

Corticeira Amorim is a corporate partner of 42porto, a programming school with an innovative, tuition-free model that has already achieved great success in Lisbon since 2020. This initiative paves the way towards a brighter future for hundreds of students.

With more than 11,000 panels and 25,000 floats, this floatng solar park, the largest in Europe set in a hydroelectric dam, will begin supplying a third of the energetic needs of Moura and Portel, two neighbouring villages that represent 25% of the region's consumers.Titled “Flashback”, this exhibition — curated by Marta Sequeira — explores more than 40 years of work by the renowned Portuguese architect, based on his archive housed at the Casa da Arquitectura.

Titled “Flashback”, this exhibition — curated by Marta Sequeira — explores more than 40 years of work by the renowned Portuguese architect, based on his archive housed at the Casa da Arquitectura.

Amorim Cork Composites celebrates the successful test flight of a pioneering electric aircraft, which used cork as insulation lining for its battery system.

Using satellite imagery and photos from NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover, Amorim Cork Flooring recreated approximately 600 m2 of the Martian surface in cork, at a 1:1 scale. Former astronaut Scott Kelly was invited to walk on the red planet for the very first time.Cork from Corticeira Amorim was chosen by the artist Pedro Cabrita Reis to create “The Three Graces” - a tribute to the remarkable and iconic work of classical antiquity, installed in the Tuileries Garden, in Paris.

Using satellite imagery and photos from NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover, Amorim Cork Flooring recreated approximately 600 m2 of the Martian surface in cork, at a 1:1 scale. Former astronaut Scott Kelly was invited to walk on the red planet for the very first time.Cork from Corticeira Amorim was chosen by the artist Pedro Cabrita Reis to create “The Three Graces” - a tribute to the remarkable and iconic work of classical antiquity, installed in the Tuileries Garden, in Paris.

Cork from Corticeira Amorim was chosen by the artist Pedro Cabrita Reis to create “The Three Graces” - a tribute to the remarkable and iconic work of classical antiquity, installed in the Tuileries Garden, in Paris.

Amorim Top Series wins the top accolade, the Diamond Award 2021, at Pentawards

Cork in Tokyo’s Bay Window Tower House projected by Fuji Architecture.

The innovative MINI Strip features Portuguese cork in its interior, supplied by Amorim Cork Composites.

EDP, Corticeira Amorim and Isigenere develop cork-based floaters for the Alqueva solar park.

The first Google retail store, in New York, designed by Daniel Michalik is decorated with cork furniture.

Corticeira Amorim’s cork once again chosen for the Serpentine Summer Pavilion, designed by the South African architecture collective Counter Space.

In partnership with the event, Corticeira Amorim presents an installation consisting of 104 tubes that operate as an antechamber for the Museum of Vibrant Matter, the main exhibition of the 2021 Porto Design Biennale.

Corticeira Amorim is the official Material Partner of Forest for Change - the Global Goals Pavilion at the 2021 London Design Biennale.

Corticeira Amorim supports the Portuguese representation at the 17th edition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Portuguese pavilion at the 2021 Yangzhou International Horticulture Expo.

Cork used to create Brainless Figure in Cork by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.