TECHNOLOGICAL
DEVELOPMENT
IN THE SERVICE OF INNOVATION

Raw material sterilization and vaporization

Extraction of volatiles and sensory standardization

Elimination of microorganisms

• Ensure customer and stakeholder satisfaction;
• Engage employees and other stakeholders in achieving the company’s objectives, with a particular focus on quality, integrity, legality, authenticity, and food protection for the final consumer, through the continuous improvement of the culture of quality and food protection;
• Guarantee appropriate competencies, as well as the personal and professional development of employees and effective internal communication;
• Work in accordance with good cork industry practices to ensure the properties of cork as a natural product and for contact with food, through the implementation of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) plans for unintentional contamination, Vulnerability Analysis and Critical Control Points (VACCP), and Threat Analysis and Critical Control Points (TACCP), always focusing on meeting our customers’ expectations.
• Produce cork stoppers in compliance with legal, statutory, customer, and management system requirements, while applying the basic work requirements of the ILO and FSC®;
• Contribute to increasing the forested area through responsible management via FSC® certification (FSC-C009204);
• Reject any form of child labour, forced labour, or worker exploitation;
• Ensure that work practices are non-discriminatory;
• Allow free association and the right to collective bargaining for workers;
• Develop a work environment that promotes respect for diversity and individual rights, as well as the personal and professional development of our employees, while respecting the balance between their professional and personal lives;
• Ensure the proper protection of data and privacy for all stakeholders (customers, suppliers, financiers, shareholders, and employees);
• Guarantee that the principles and ethical and deontological rules that should guide the behaviour of our employees, customers, suppliers, and business partners are applied and respected, in order to prevent fraud and corruption;
• Reject money laundering and anti-competitive practices;
• Ensure that conflicts of interest are identified and avoided and/or properly managed;
• Ensure that our employees, suppliers, and partners conduct their activities in a safe work environment that prevents risks, injuries, and incidents;
• Adopt best practices for environmental protection, including pollution prevention through the rational use of resources, allowing for reduced energy consumption, waste reduction, promoting circularity, and improving operational efficiency by seeking innovative solutions and consequently improving our ecological footprint;
• Comply with legal requirements and continuously improve performance in environmental, social, occupational health and safety, and economic areas;
• Contribute to increasing activities that generate economic value in the local community (local recruitment, community investments, local suppliers, etc.);
• Ensure the systematic evaluation of the integrated management system to improve performance and promote continuous improvement.
• — M.A.SILVA

M.A.SILVA produces and delivers the best natural cork stoppers available in the world market, promoting the perfect pairing: cork stopper – wine.

To guarantee maximum quality throughout the cork stopper production flow, maximum quality must be guaranteed at all stages. And for the process to be efficient, it is also necessary that all the stages are controlled – from the forest to the final product – as it happens at M.A.SILVA.

The quality of our production flow starts in the forest, and the health of the trees of contracted forest owners is constantly monitored.

The demanding and rigorous Quality & Control team at M.A.SILVA is present throughout the entire production flow, and supported by exact protocols and cutting edge technology, allowing us to decide which batches of cork are approved and which are rejected.

Before stripping, tests are carried out on samples, guaranteeing the maximum quality of cork. Once the best raw material has been selected, the next step is to ensure its cleaning and disinfection. M.A.SILVA’s patented cork cleaning and disinfection systems reduce average TCA levels to below human detectable levels.

The M.A.SILVA strategy and philosophy, focused on the quality of the cork stoppers and consequent client satisfaction, lead to predictable results and constant performance of the production process, often verified and tested by entities outside the group.