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While tracing its roots to the XIX Century, Corticeira Amorim has become the world's largest cork and cork-derived company in the world, generating more than Euro half billion in sales throughout 110 countries. Amorim's signature is present in the cork stoppers of the best wines as in the most unlikely solutions: flooring and insulation products for construction, state-of-the-art applications for transportation projects, such as railway and spacecraft, organic solvents...Within the panorama of contemporary creation, it challenges designers, scientists and architects to continuously explore the endless potential of cork. Amorim leads an exemplary economic activity in terms of sustainable development. By promoting the cyclical harvest of the cork, the company makes the cork oak forest viable, a natural and renewable resource, with numerous environmental, economic and social benefits.