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Does the cork oak need to be cut down to harvest the cork?
No. Stripping is carried out manually and the trees are never cut down. After each stripping, the cork oak undergoes an original process of self-regeneration of the bark, which gives the activity of cork harvesting a uniquely sustainable nature.
How important are cork oak forests?
Cork oak forests contribute to the preservation of biodiversity and the survival of many indigenous animal species, some of which in danger of extinction. Equally important is its role in capturing CO2, the regulation of the hydrological cycle and restraining environmental and social desertification.Cork oak forests fo…
Bringing back a part of nature to the artificial turf system
The use of natural cork or cork combined with other materials as an infill is favoured due to corks’ many positive proprieties, such as: low density (insulation properties with low heat absorption when exposed to sunlight), high elasticity (because of the large share of air that fills its cell structure), high strength…
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In terms of circular economy infills, do they release microplastics?
No cork infills from our Nature range or from our Organic range release any microplastics. In case of cork-based infills, which may contain some synthetic components, they are chosen by selecting circular economy materials and always consider cork in their composition, which lowers the amount of microplastics released…
Cork infills ensure performance naturally
Amorim Nature infills’ main goals are to allow functional suitability, a balance between cost-effectiveness and environmental compatibility, material durability, and multifunctionality.
Football and rugby pitches, France
Infill Amorim Nature 130 applied in the artificial turf of a rugby pitch and in several mixed pitches in France.
Main Goal
In order to meet the club's objective of providing players and other users with a more sustainable football pitch, Amorim Sports’Nature infill was adopted to provide functional finish with less buoyancy and coagulating in rainy season, while remaining cork’s natural shock absorption feature, in the artificial turf syst…
Infills applied by:
Green Power company was in charge of the project installation. The structural base was made of asphalt with a draining profile. A pre-fabricated shock pad was provided with 17mm, with drainage capacity and absorption performance. The filling of the turf with sand (18kg/m2), as a weight layer, and Amorim Nature 190 cork…
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Polytan Denmark The project took place during spring 2020. 8858 m2 of POLYTAN´s grass “Legend Pro” was installed on top of the prefabricated PRO PLAY shockpad with a height of 23 mm. As weight layer on the artificial grass, 19 kg/m2 of sand was filled in, before the installation of 1.9 kg/m2 of Amorim Nature 130, as a…