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     * Bark Top Cork Stoppers
     * Cosmetic Stoppers (decorative cork screwcap covers)
     * Custom Printed Cork Stoppers
     * Custom / Specialty Cork Stoppers
     * Finger Pull Tapered Cork Stoppers
     * Glass Top Decanter Cork Stoppers
      stoppers carved from cork. [clip_image002_0006.jpg] These are on
   cork as a bottle stopper would preserve wine and olive oils longer and
     was not until the 17 th century A.D. that cork stoppers began to be
   The use of modern day cork stoppers can be attributed to a French monk
      natural cork stoppers to seal his sparkling wines and in so doing
   in hemp soaked with olive oil. Dom Perignon triggered the use of cork,
   corkscrew in the early 1700's cork stoppers were fully accepted as the
     on and cork was soon being used as a sealer in bottles, flasks, and
      The world's first commercial cork stopper factory opened in Spain
   around 1750. Production boomed requiring more and more cork factories,
    [clip_image006.gif] from the bark of the cork oak tree as quickly as
      sealed with cork stoppers allowed completed products to be easily
    each year plus several billion other types of cork stoppers to serve
     any openings requiring tight seals. Both natural cork and synthetic
   cork closures can also be combined with wood, metals, granite, glass or
     cork quality, size, and finish is correct for any given project or
    cork stoppers and closures is critical to the overall quality of the