Wine producers’ exasperation with this phenomenon explains the recent increase in the use of synthetic corks and screwcaps. Screwcaps provide the perfect seal, with different types of liner allowing ...
Wine corks are traditionally manufactured from cork (bark of the cork oak), but synthetic materials have been employed in recent decades. Expected alternative wine closures include glass stoppers ...
After enjoying a bottle of fine wine don't be too quick to discard the cork, it turns out you can use wine corks for good in your garden according to gardening experts. Repurposing wine corks is ...
Though most widely known for cork stoppers, which we produce at a scale of over 5.6 billion annually, cork is being utilised in increasingly diverse industries. Our work spans from creating products ...
Three prisoners fell ill and one had to be hospitalised after a suspected overdose of the dangerous synthetic drug spice at Cork Prison. It’s believed the illicit substance was smuggled into the ...
The remnants are saved and fused together to make agglomerate corks. There’s also Nomacorc, a synthetic cork that looks similar to a real cork and can be made with synthetically produced cork ...