Cork is the bark of a special Cork tree cultivated primarily in the area Neighbouring the Mediterranean Sea. This bark is stripped from the cork oak tree once in about 9 years. From this bark are produced wine cork stoppers which have proved their unmatched sealing capability for over a 1000 years. The balance material is ground and graded appropriately to give cork granulates.

Cork is truly compressible, while other material may flow sideways, distort or elongate, cork shows very minimal side flow. This is because of the unique cork cell structure wherein air is entrapped in tiny but flexible walls of the cork cell. When cork is compressed, the air in each cell gets squeezed into smaller spaces, which maintains counter pressure enabling the cork to spring back to original its shape when the force is released, whereas other materials would get distorted. This property continues to remain intact even after several years.

The unique properties of cork, such as true compressibility, low density, flexibility, surface frictional properties, resistance to liquid penetration, low thermal and electrical conductivity, vibration isolation and many more, continue to remain in the smaller granulates of cork and hence its used in the manufacturing of several specialty products like plain cork sheets.