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Wicanders Cork Flooring Series 100 | Identity | Silver
Item #: WII803002
Identity Collection | Series 100 Cork Floating Floor
Extreme WRT Finish (Ceramic micro-bead Urethane)
23 square feet / box ($6.34/sf)
Cork Flooring is exceptionally quiet underfoot, environmentally
friendly, very comfortable to walk and
stand on, very warm and serves as a natural thermal
insulator, pleasant to touch, easy to maintain, durable,
has a memory, is less likely to permanently
dent, and is beautiful to look at.
The Identity Collection: The pattern is what characterizes us. In a range of different colors, the natural identity of cork stays in harmony with you.
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Retail Price: $6.34
Our Price: $145.82
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- Xtreme WRT Finish: A ceramic micro-bead finish 4x more wear resistant than other finishes in its class
- Micro beveled on 4 sides
- Dimensions: 35 5/8" x 11 5/8" x 7/16" planks / 10.5 mm thick
- Improved Corkloc® Floating Floor System: Now easier than ever to install
- Easy maintenance, high performance surface
- Warranty: 15 Yr. Residential, 5 Yr. Light Commercial
- HDF (High Density Commercial Grade Core)
- Exterior Edges sealed to protect against moisture
- Integrated insulating cork underlay
- Suitable for: Kitchen, family room, bedroom, basement, dining room, playroom, hallway, office
 About cork
| Cork is the outer bark of the cork oak tree, Quercus Suber, which grows
mainly in the Mediterranean region. The bark is a vegetal tissue
composed of an agglomeration of cells filled with a gaseous mixture
similar to air and lined with alternating layers of cellulose and
suberin. Cork's elasticity, combined with its near-impermeability,
makes it the perfect material for making bottle stoppers, floor tiles,
insulation sheets, bulletin boards and other similar products. Because
of its remarkable qualities, cork is used in high-tech applications
including car engines, dam mechanisms and airport runways. The
aeronautics has used cork as a thermal insulator in space shuttles. |
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The use of cork as a raw material dates back to Phoenician and Greek
times. Cork began to become known all over the world as an effective
bottle stopper for wine. In fact, cork is the only material that makes
a perfect seal during the ageing of the wine.
Today, cork is a valuable resource for Portugal, representing one of its most important export products.
The cork oak
Cork oak forests cover approximately 2.5 million hectares across the
Mediterranean region and most of them are located in seven countries:
Portugal, Algeria, Spain, Morocco, France, Italy and Tunisia.
The tree has a life span of 250-350 years. Each cork tree must be 20 to
25 years old before it can provide its first harvest of cork bark. This
cork is known as virgin and has a hard and irregular structure. After
the virgin cork has been stripped, a new layer of cork begins to grow.
The first of these layers, harvested after nine years, is called
secondary cork; cork harvested after this second stripping is known by
the Portuguese word: amadia. |
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A typical tree produces several hundred kilograms of cork at each
harvesting and will survive for many generations. The bark is stripped
off the tree in sections by highly skilled men using special axes, a
traditional manual skill that dates back many hundreds of years.
Cork is harvested on a sustainable basis and the
stripping of the bark does not harm the tree in any way. The bark grows
back completely, taking on a smoother texture after each harvest. A
cork oak tree can be safely harvested up to 20 times during its life
cycle, making cork a truly inexhaustible natural resource.
New plantations of cork oak trees are planted each year to ensure the
level of cork production is maintained. Cork oak trees cannot be felled
or removed without government authorization, which is rarely granted.
Portugal, which produces more than 50% of the world’s cork, has been
particularly careful to safeguard this valuable resource. The first
Portuguese laws protecting cork oak trees date back to the 14th
century. At the beginning of the 20th century, it became illegal to cut
down cork oak trees, except for essential thinning or the removal of
old, non-productive trees.
In a context of increasing concern for the environment, cork remains
the only tree whose bark can regenerate itself after each harvest -
leaving the tree unharmed. It is truly a renewable, environment
Environmental protection and
sustainability are at the core of the cork industry. In particular on the case
of cork flooring, since most of cork materials used on the composition of
Wicanders cork flooring, are based on recycled cork from other industrial uses,
or cork materials that otherwise your be considered as waste.
Transferring these concepts to the LEEDS
Green Building Rating System, and to its’ most recent LEED Version 2.1 of the
New construction and Major renovations (LEED-NC), is explained as follows:
LEED-NC Credit Areas impacted by
Flooring
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Project
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Category
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Credit
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Number of Points Possible
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Indoor Environmental Quality
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EQ 4.1
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1 point
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Materials & Resources
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Recycled Content
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MR4.1
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1 point
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Recycled Content
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MR 4.2
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1 point
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Rapidly renewable Materials
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MR
6
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1 point in addition to MR4.1
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Certified Wood
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MR 7
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1 point
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Wicanders cork flooring product lines
and respective possible credit points, based on above credit areas :
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Product Lines
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EQ 4.1
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MR 4.1
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MR 4.2
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MR 6 (*)
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MR 7 (**)
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Series 100
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No
( this product doesn’t use adhesive )
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Yes
( 37.8 % recycled cork )
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Yes
( 37.8 % recycled cork )
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Yes
( harvest cork , 9 and 1 year )
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Yes
(on cork materials )
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Series 200
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Yes
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Yes
( 100 % recycled cork )
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Yes
( 100 % recycled cork )
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Yes
( harvest cork , 9 and 1 year )
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Yes
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Series 1000
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No(
this product doesn’t use adhesive )
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Yes
( 35.7 % recycled cork )
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Yes
( 35.7 % recycled cork )
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Yes
( harvest cork , 9 and 1 year )
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Yes
( on cork materials )
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Series 2000
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Yes
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Yes
( 62.3 % recycled cork , 37.7 % recycled pvc )
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Yes
( 62.3 % recycled cork , 37.7 % recycled pvc )
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Yes
( harvest cork , 9 and 1 year )
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Yes
( on cork materials )
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Series 3000
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No
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this product doesn’t use adhesive )
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Yes
( 32.6 % recycled cork )
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Yes
( 32.6 % recycled cork )
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Yes
( harvest cork , 9 and 1 year )
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Yes
( on cork materials )
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Note
(*) MR. 6 – ,Wicanders Cork floors are
made in part with a unique type of cork named “Falca”. This is the cork from
the small branches pruned every year
from the tree. This type of cork, is –part of the solid waste stream, and is
used on the cork agglomerate on the core of the products. The other cork types
used are “Amadia” and “Secundeira” , those are harvested every 9 years.
Therefore the cork is a combination of cork types harvest every year with cork
harvest every 9 years.
Note (**) MR 7
FSC – Wicanders cork as well as Wicanders HDF ( on the core of floating
floors ), are from FSC certified suppliers.
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