Pioneering Cork Technology

As an integral part of a vertically-integrated international company, Amorim Cork America provides the world’s latest cork technology and product innovations. Recent innovations include the NDtech individualized quality control screening technology, that provides the world’s first natural cork with a non-detectable TCA guarantee.* These corks are Amorim’s top-end natural cork stoppers used by some of the world’s most valuable wine brands. NDtech is also the only technology of its kind with 3rd party independent validation.

* releasable TCA content below the 0.5 ng/L quantification limit; analysis performed in accordance to ISO 20752.

Another major recent innovation is the game changing Helix stopper, that does away with the need for a corkscrew and can be opened and closed with a simple twist. Developed as a joint venture between Amorim and O-I – the world’s leading glass-packaging maker - Helix has been valued as one of the greatest wine packaging innovations of the twenty-first century – and to date has garnered seven major international awards.

REACHING A NEW LEVEL
We’ve fulfilled our promise. With Naturity® and Xpür®, the two breakthrough technologies developed by Amorim to defeat TCA and other volatile compounds, we reach a new level of performance for both our natural corks and our micro-agglomerated stoppers.

The world’s most sustainable and effective anti-TCA technology for natural corks. An entirely natural process applied to an entirely natural product.

Amorim partnered with UNL’s experts to launch Naturity®, the most recent technology to maximise the performance of natural cork stoppers by defeating TCA and other sensory-deviation compounds. Thanks to an optimized process that combines pressure, temperature, purified water and time, Naturity® separates TCA molecules from cork’s cellular structure, keeping the crucial features of this unique material intact and its remarkable performance, essential to the protection and evolution of the wine, untouched.

We believe that balancing Nature and technology is the way forward to create some of the strongest product propositions available in the industry. With Naturity®, we wrap cork’s unbeatable cellular structure around sophisticated technology while respecting Nature’s remarkable work and the full integrity of this material.

All Neutrocork® Xpür and Qork® stoppers now feature the world’s greenest and most efficient anti-TCA technology for micro granulated corks.

Amorim’s R&D has partnered with the field’s leading experts to bring supercritical fluid technology well into the 21st Century, launching Xpür® the world’s greenest and most efficient anti-TCA technology for micro granulated corks. A highly effective process per se, the Xpür® system cleanses cork using less energy, creating a positive impact on the planet. This groundbreaking process allows for the removal of TCA and other sensory-deviation molecules that may exist in the granules, without compromising cork’s natural properties. At the molecular level, cork’s elastic, physical-mechanical features remain intact, without the need to use any artificial components.

Quality Control Standards

At Amorim, market leadership means greater responsibility, ensuring that clients products reach customers carrying the highest standards in the industry. Over recent years the Amorim group has invested significant resources in Research and Development, proprietary curative processes and quality control techniques. We stand at the forefront of technological developments in the cork industry.

Proprietary techniques include:

• the CONVEX® boiling system, which prevents cross-contamination and produces a drier, cleaner cork for processing,


These techniques are complemented by state of the art gas chromatography testing, which can now be applied on an individual basis via the NDtech individualized screening technology. Currently available on a limited basis in our natural corks and sparkling closures.

Amorim Cork America reinforces these quality control measures via its own technical services department, which provides customized consulting services to each customer. The company is a founding member of the Cork Quality Council (CQC). At Amorim, we uphold the most stringent TCA handling protocol in the industry and our overall quality control standards follow the standards that the CQC establishes from its members including testing in-house and ETS Labs for external validation.