Industry

Portugal’s largest car plant is to begin a nine week stoppage from September 11 to November 12 because of a shortage of car parts in Slovenia. It will lay manufacturing staff off for the period [...]

The Portuguese holding Semapa, which is one of the country’s largest industrial groups with a footprint on four continents in areas such as paper and paper paste, cement, construction materials [...]

In Essential Business’s forthcoming Issue 20, which will be out from the beginning of April, we provide an extensive coverage to the outgoing President of the Portuguese Industrial Confederation [...]

Portugal’s metallurgy and metalworking sector got off to a good start this year with exports in January up 13.7% to €1.8Bn. According to AIMMAP (Metal Portugal) which represents the sector, the [...]

Portugal’s production output increased 4.5% in January this year, as the country enjoyed record production levels. The Index of Industrial Production presented a like-for-like variation of 4.5% [...]

Portuguese exports of metal manufactured goods and machinery increased 19.2% in November 2022 on the same month in 20221 to €2.3Bn. They have also clocked up a like-for-like growth of 16.7% since [...]

Portugal is the ‘partner country’ at Europe’s largest industrial trade fair Hannover Messe which opened on Monday and ends on June 2. Portugal’s national committee this year comprises 109 [...]

Portuguese energy company Galp continues to state that the exact location for a future lithium refinery in Portugal has yet to be decided. However, the company’s CEO Andy Brown has promised that [...]

A fall in production has led the Volkswagen car plant Autoeuropa to press ahead with a redundancy plan. In the plan, the car manufacturer is proposing a compensation package of 1.5 salaries for [...]

The European Commission has given the green light to French multinational Vinci and Portuguese construction giant Mota-Engil for the management and exploration of Lisbon bridge toll company [...]