Cork stoppers
Influence of cutting direction of cork planks on the quality and porosity characteristics of natural cork stoppers
... The cork quality is directly related to the porosity derived from the presence of lenticular channels that cross the plank radially, from belly to cork ...of cork show longi- tudinal sections of the ...
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Classification modeling based on surface porosity for the grading of natural cork stoppers for quality wines
... natural cork stoppers (24 mm diameter × 45 mm length) used in this study were collected from one major Portuguese cork industrial ...The stoppers were randomly sampled (before washing and ...
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Converting a cork stoppers business into a knowledge company – An organizational and strategic evolution – Field of study: Family-Owned Businesses and Strategic Management Purpose:
... a cork producer, and thereby there has not been a backward vertical integration, in a pure sense, its intervention has an impact also upward in the value chain, for instance fostering cork ...its ...
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Export performance : the case of the exports of cork stoppers from Portugal to emergent economies
... Export performance has always been a non-consensual topic in the field of International Business, despite being one of the most researched areas. This dissertation starts aiming at understanding the influence of internal ...
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Cork stoppers industry: defining appropriate mould colonization
... the cork stoppers washing ...from cork slabs are removed be- fore the maturing ...from cork slabs occur side by side in the same manufacturing ...
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Characterization of colmated wine cork stoppers
... of cork was certainly improved in the process but it was the deep cleaning into the thousands of pores which could introduce ...The cork was disinfected and a residual layer of calcium oxalate created an ...
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Statistical experimental design screening strategies for free-monomeric isocyanates determination by UPLC in materials used in cork stoppers manufacturing
... The main goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of three controllable factors in a chromatographic method to determine free diisocyanates at low concentration levels present [r] ...
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Cork structural characteristics and their influence on the oxygen ingress through wine stoppers
... of cork stopped bottles when comparing uncovered, interface-covered, and fully covered natural cork stoppers, suggesting that oxygen diffuses mainly out of the cork into the wine due to the ...
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Cork oak and climate change: disentangling drought effects on cork chemical composition
... the cork industry for the production of cork ...(innermost cork layer) removed to avoid contamination with other ...of cork were first milled with a knife mill (Retsch SM 2000) passing through ...
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Identification and fingerprinting of cork fungi: a phenetic approach
... of cork stoppers production or origin of the samples, some considerations must be ...of cork stoppers manufacture process as the cluster formed only grouped fungi from the boiling ...
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Pressure evolution inside a cork stopper under vacuum
... be defined by an orthogonal array. Thus we can compare the pumping of 3D arrays having the same overall volume but different shapes. A comparison has been made between the pumping calculations of a sphere and a cylinder ...
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Lean Games for Cork Industry Value Chain
... The Cork Supply Game portrays the cork stoppers supply chain and thus, tries to consider specificities of the referred supply chain such as the flow of goods through positions, with three divergence ...
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Equity Research - Cork Supply Portugal
... A major challenge the company faces is the resolution of the TCA problem. This is a threat that the major wine producers in the world are not willing to tolerate because the higher quality wines are associated with ...
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Study of humidity and water activity of cork slabs during cork stopper manufacturing process - preliminary results
... of cork stoppers includes a stabilisation period of the cork slabs, after boiling, during which slabs dry, attaining the humidity level allowing the subsequent phases of its processing, and fungi ...
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A model for estimating carbon accumulation in cork products
... use: cork stoppers, panels of agglomerated cork for construction and other cork ...flows. Cork stoppers include stoppers from natural and agglomerated cork used ...
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Oxidized Xanthan Gum and Chitosan as Natural Adhesives for Cork
... structure. Cork is composed of a prismatic cellular matrix with empty spaces filled with air ...of cork cell walls are suberin (40% of its dry weight), lignin (20%), polysaccharides (20%) and extractables ...
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Cork as a raw material for antibacterial membranes and fibers
... Here, we report a simple, low energy demanding and “greener” process based on aqueous alkaline hydrolysis to explore the extraction of suberin, using cork stoppers as a raw material. The concentration of ...
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Drivers for annual cork growth under two understory management alternatives on a podzolic cork oak stand
... for cork stoppers and other high value manufactured ...characterizes cork oak stands by an average density of around 66 trees per hectare [1], making no distinction between these two systems: montado ...
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Studies on cork oak decline: an integrated approach
... and cork stoppers correspond to 70% of cork market (APCOR ...However, cork oaks are facing disturbances that are reducing their resilience, affecting the sustainability of the ...
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Molecular regulation of cork development: the QsMYB1 gene
... of cork cells in programmed cell death processes are within the main ...with cork formation in cork oak ...to cork formation had already been reported in ...and cork differentiation was ...
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