To colour the CORKonLINEN tissue we decided to only use natural colours. This adds quite a challenge to the manufacturing process and we are not able to produce avery colour possible. But at the same time this limitation assures that the final material will be fully compostable.

To make a new and innovative material is one thing. To keep it natural from A to Z is another. We accepted this challenge to avoid any greenwashing, confusion or other.

You want to buy CORKonLINEN for your business? But you want a colour that you have not yet seen online ?

We would love to hear from you and see what we can do. Motivated to test and to try new colours, we will assist you in the best way possible to find the perfect colour for the application you want. Keep in mind that we won’t make a compromise on one important element : The colouring must be natural and compostable.

The only compromise : you buy a natural coloured tissue and you design the colours, markers and more yourself.

Please use the contact form to get in touch with us. We will answer as soon as possible and help you. You find it here.

The assembling of the CORKonLINEN material requires a lot of manual work.

The assembling is done in our workshop in Portugal. This is where we find the best expertise and people.

The linen needs to be rolled out, glue needs to be carefully applied on it. Once the glue applied, we carefully add the thin slices of cork.

From placing the cork untill sanding it, all steps are done by hand. We are happy to work with people who know the necessary craftmanship to do so. Not only does this manual work assure best quality, but it of course impacts our prices.

CORKonLINEN is vegan and we work accordingly in every production step and for all materials we use. This is also valid for the glue.

The glue is made in Portugal and was developed for the material. It is water based, natural and compostable without any issues.

Assembling a material such as CORKonLINEN is not a mechanical or industrial process. It is something which takes time, patience and love. We need to place every slice of cork manually on the tissue, one after the other.

We care for our material and we pay the highest attention to little details. RTFACT Brands assures a smooth and resistant material, but this needs time.

The cork we use is from Portugal a bit south-east of Lisbon area. The trees are neither watered, nor treated with chemicals. All our barks are from FSC certified forests.

It is boiled, stored for several months and sliced.

These slices are applied on the linen.

Since the company creation we have been working with cork from Portugal and we have never been disappointed. Not only is Portugal the biggest producer of it worldwide (34 % of forest surface), but the quality is also the absolute best.

Portugal has a very long history in cork-oak forests and pays attention to many details. The portuguese association of cork APCOR does their very best to communicate about the industry but as well to educate about it.

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The linen tissue we use is certified “Masters of Linen”. This certification assures that the textile never leaves the European Union. The plants are in the North of France the thread is made in Poland and, again, the tissue is done in the North of France.

We are doing our best to make our textile a 100% Made in France product again. But it’s only in 2022 that a new spinning company opened back up in France. For years the country focused on services and not on manufacturing. The knowledge got lost and even no machines have been left in the country. The CELC (European Confederation of Flax and Hemp) does their best to restablish all steps in the country. But this takes time.

For now this certificate already assures quality and limiting transport ways.

When we had the idea of CORKonLINEN we decided to make a material with a lower environmental impact compared to what already excists. The goal was to replace cotton with a more sustainable material.

Did you know that France is the biggest producer of flax and linen worldwide ? – If not, you now understand our motivation. As a French company we thought it should be logical to use what we have in our country.

Furthermore, linen is a super sustainable material working with low environmental impact, barely needs watering (in exceptional years possible), low or no pesticides etc. The plant absorbes a lot of CO2 and helps the soil. (1 hectar absorbes around 3,7 tons a year)

Even though we already use the French linen, we want to take things further. RTFACT Brands is based in Brest in Brittany. This region of Brittany was historically an important player of flax and hemp. But also in this region we lost the focus on nature.

We are committed to the association “lin et chanvre en Bretagne” to realize our long-term vision: Having the ressources for CORKonLINEN in front of our door.