Best Cork Flooring

There has been a serious and sustained push, by homeowners and builders, to provide more environmentally friendly options in the flooring industry. One of the flooring materials that builder and homeowner alike have turned to is cork.

Cork comes from the cork oak tree and makes up the tree’s bark. It is considered a renewable resource because the bark is stripped from these trees without damaging them in any way. This is a process that can be repeated every nine years. The first harvesting takes place when the tree is twenty five years old. The cork oak usually lives to be well over 150 years old, so this is a process that can be repeated for well over a century.

While cork is a wonderful product, perfectly fit for flooring and a myriad of other household applications, not all cork flooring is created equally. There are things you have to do as a consumer to make sure you’re receiving the best quality product possible. Chief among them is to make sure that you’re purchasing from a skilled and state of the art manufacturer. And that is exactly what you have in Wicanders Cork.

Wicanders is a brand produced by Amorin, which is a company with over 130 years worth of experience in the cork flooring market. In this time they’ve concentrated on taking the natural attributes that make cork a great material for flooring and enhancing them. They’ve produced patented noise reduction, wear resistance, and high performance surface technologies. They offer flooring collections which are warm, beautiful and highly advanced. I think it is especially important when producing green flooring that you have products which give nothing away in the ways of performance, quality or durability. That’s why Wicanders is a great choice for anyone shopping for cork flooring.