Manufacturing

Text: Chris Graeme Photos: PRODUTECH International and Portuguese delegates at a summit focused on Portugal’s Production Technologies Cluster learnt how a successful partnership between high-tech [...]

TMG Automotive, a Portuguese textile company that makes car seat and interior upholstery, is investing €43 million on a factory in Bostic, North Carolina, US, creating 125 jobs. Headquartered in [...]

China’s ambassador to China has announced “ideas” that Chinese car manufacturers could set up assembly line factories in Portugal. Chinese electric cars are widely seen as among the most [...]

Portugal’s Industrial Production suffered a fall of 5.5% after having seen a 1.5% increase in February according to data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). Excluding the energy [...]

Profits posted by Portuguese textile company Riopele were up 15.7% to €5 million for 2024 compared to 2023 with consolidated sales increasing 1% to €98.5 million according to the news agency [...]

International Paper’s packaging factory Cartovar in Ovar looks set to be acquired by the German group Palm together with four other assets that the US company agreed to sell in order to get [...]

Portugal’s textile company TMG – Acabamantos Têxteis (TMG Group), the UK’s RTS Textiles Ltd (RTS) and Pakistan’s Sapphire Textile Mills (STM) have merged in a “strategic merger” under the [...]

Hundreds of million euros of incentives had to be provided to Volkswagen to convince the German manufacturer to produce its new electric low-cost vehicle at its Autoeuropa plant in Palmela. Under [...]

Volkswagen has chosen Portugal’s Autoeuropa factory to produce its recently-presented VW iD.Every 1 – a compact electric city car which will sell for a starting price of €20,000. The [...]

Portugal’s vehicles market fell 5.4% in the first two months of the year, with around 40,000 new vehicles put on the road, according to data from the Automobile Association of Portugal. (ACAP) By [...]