The work creates a viable and profitable alternative to storage or burn of cork powder. ► Cork–polymer composite materials for building applications such as core in flooring. ► The cork composites show low water absorption and low thickness swelling variation. ► Cork improved the fire resistance of the thermoplastic composites. ► Composites with good acoustic behaviour as compare with the commercial fibre board...
The cork industry produces high amounts of cork powders resulting from the final stages of cork processing or resulting from existing cork products. Usually these powders are burned and served to boilers in industrial processes. The main goal of this work is to transform this cork sub-product into a highly value composite product. The real value is dependent on the mechanical performance of this product. Thus t...
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