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    June 7, 2025

    Cork is a typical Portuguese product. No other country produces as much of it as Portugal. More than half of the world's cork harvest comes from the sobreiros (cork oaks). The largest cork forests are in the Alentejo (between Lisbon and the Algarve) and the vast majority of the cork processing industry is located in the Alentejo and around Porto. Francisco Carrusca's cork factory is 40 years old, which is young in the cork world. After all, the cork oak only produces its first harvest after 25 years and then it is a 9 or 10-year wait each time. Most cork companies are therefore passed down from generation to generation and easily exist for 100 years or more.

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