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Cork

The choice of the use of cork in ikimobile equipment is based on 3 factors that we consider essential in our sustainability policies.
Industrial process 100% natural, characteristics that guarantee the excellence quality in what is produced and a positive impact on the forest of cork oak.

100% natural industrial process:

• For the production of cork components only this raw material is used without the introduction of non-natural products;
• Absence of additives, agglomeration carried out using its own resins (suberin)
• 90% of consumption is biomass (waste of its own industrial process)
• The waste of the industrial process is 100% reusable (cork + powder granules)

Characteristics that guarantee the excellence quality in what is produced:

• High dimensional stability, supporting large thermal variations
• In the event of fire, cork does not release toxic gases.
• Unlimited durability, keeping the technical characteristics (official tests prove 45 and 50 years)
• After use it is fully recycled and used again in construction applications.
• Supports temperatures between: (-) 180ºC and (+) 120ºC.
• 100% natural product.
• Very low energy built in.
• Negative Carbon.
• High dimensional stability
• Thermal, acoustic and anti-vibration insulation at the same time
• Promotes thermal delay
• Practically unlimited durability, maintaining technical characteristics
• Compressive strength (good mechanical properties)
• Does not react to chemical agents
• 100% Recyclable and Reusable in other applications

Positive impact on the forest and the environment:

• Important in maintaining biodiversity (unique in Europe).
• Portuguese forest (cork oaks) summers of 5 million tons CO2 per year.
• Total area (Portugal) 735,000 hectares
• Cork trees produce cork every 9 years (renewable raw material).
• It prevents desertification of the soil. > Set the population in the work of the mount, prevent population desertification