Montado and harvesting
Raw material at source. Portugal accounts for 49.5% of world cork production, with 730,000 hectares of montado.
Invisible precision
From soil to flute
Cork is born in the montado, passes through three generations and reaches every instrument.
FLOR selection
Rigorous selection. Privileged access to FLOR raw material in the Santa Maria da Feira cluster.
Slicing
Cork sliced into sheets for musical instrument makers since 1945.
Calibration
Since 1987, with the ROTEX, the first calibration equipment in the Portuguese cork sector.
Precision cutting
Flute and piccolo head corks by instrument model, oboe cork pads on dedicated machinery and precision cork strips with ultra-tight tolerances.
Consistency
Consistency between batches, batch traceability and technical confidence.
The guardians of know-how
Specialist technicians. Three generations in the same cork cluster, with know-how that is hard to replicate.
In the instrument
Tenon cork, neck cork, cork pads, head cork, water key cork, bumpers and oboe cork pads.
Consistency between batches
Keeping in every sheet the rigour and consistency of the one before.
Since 1984
Full vertical integration
ForestStoppersBy-productsGranulesMusical cork sheets
- 1950sCork granules. The first granule factory in northern Portugal.
- 1960–64Own agglomeration presses.
- 1984The Veiga de Macedo family returns to the shareholding. From the forest to musical cork sheets.
- 1987ROTEX, the first calibration equipment in the Portuguese sector.
