“These trees grow abundantly in European countries like France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and North African countries, and can easily live for 250 or 300 years.
This tree is very popular today because of the products made from its bark. The skin of this tree has been used for two or three hundred years. Especially for making bottle caps.
But today cork is also used to make shoes, belts, handbags and various household appliances. Very strong.. Water resistant cork Eco Friendly (Eco Friendly) or a friend of nature. Flexible like rubber but natural...so not much pollution.
Especially in Europe, there is a group that refuses to use products made from animal skin. It takes 25 years to remove the bark from the tree for the first time. Then the tree itself has grown well.
After that, the bark of the tree can be removed every nine years. During those nine years, the skin of the tree is rewritten as usual.
A tree can be debarked 15 times in its lifetime. Portugal and Spain are famous for Liège products. A production value of 1.5 billion euros per year is added by these cork products.”
Edit: The cork bark can be harvested from the tree allowing new bark to grow in its place without killing or damaging the trees. This makes every tree a renewable source of raw material. A thin layer of inner bark provides the tree with its unique ability to survive and regenerate after being debarked.