Blackcork furniture
by Sofalca

Blackcork is a Portuguese contemporary furniture and lighting brand.

Sofalca, a company from Portugal, manufacturer of black cork expanded agglomerate since 1966.

Sustainable design. It is only used cork of the branches (falca) for the manufacture of cork granules. These are block clusters in autoclave, being 100% natural process, without use of additives. The technology, developed by Sofalca, consists of injecting water vapor through the pellets that will expand and agglutinate with the resins of the cork itself.

This "cooking" gives also a dark color to the agglomerated cork, like chocolate. In the production of steam is used biomass, obtained on milling and cleaning the falca, what makes it truly ecological production and without waste, 95% energy self-sufficient.