Cork Material

Cork is a wonderful wood material not only use as bottle stopper for wine bottles but also to many applications like corking your flooring or corking your baseball bats.

One of the most used wood materials is the bark of a Cork tree which is commercially called cork. This wood material as we knew it is mostly use as a bottle stopper on wine bottles because of its advantageous effects on the wine inside the wine bottle. That is it helps the wine to continue in its ageing process even though it is already transferred into the wine bottle from the barrels the wine is taken, by allowing some oxygen to penetrate within the wine bottle into the wine content while wine is in the wine bottle. And this tolerance of air penetration through the cork as the bottle stopper helps the wine in the wine bottle taste more better by ageing it more like it was in a barrel; compare to synthetic bottle caps that seals tightly the mouth of the bottle and which bring intolerance for air penetration inside the bottle. However, despite the advantageous effects of corking the wine bottles, there is still a sloppy side of it compare to clean cut well tight synthetic bottle caps. That is, there is a recent studies that a cork shrink into a larger percentage which leads the wine in the wine bottle to spill out from the bottle which reduces the wine content inside the bottle or worse will empty the wine bottle from wine content before it was delivered on supermarkets and other business consignment stores, hence brings shame to wine bottlers to their consignee partners. Thus, some wine bottlers currently already use synthetic bottle caps as their alternative bottle stoppers for their wines, lest corking their wine bottles will only lead to a disastrous wine business transaction again.

However, the cork does not end on corking wine bottles or being a mere bottle stopper for wine bottles, but the cork is also use on other helpful purposes like corking your flooring and using it as your wall partitions. Yes, we could never eliminate some disadvantages or limitations it brings to us, such also in using it as your flooring wherein shrinkage and irregularities of the characteristics of the cork are some minor to major issues about corking a flooring. But this is just a minimal thing compare to its huge advantages when use for flooring purposes. They say that using a cork as your flooring material lessens your time for cleaning it because they say it is mild and mildew free, insect free, and a lot more advantages it brings. We should not look or focus more on the negative side of a material if it is only minimal compare to the material’s maximum positive sides.

However, for me the cork can also be use best as an interior wall partition because of its soft and insect free properties. And also it is also best use as a bulletin board for pinning some announcements in your office or school compare to ordinary painted board.

Other usage of a cork varies from a creative mind of a producer like some they use the cork as a thermal insulator, corking their bats or use as a fillings for their baseball bats, etc.