Manufacturing

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 [...]

One of Portugal’s most successful entrepreneurs, Miguel Milhão, is to open his company’s 11th product manufacturing unit in the north of the country. Prozis, which makes health food and food [...]

Portuguese exports of car components rose by 26.9% in April to €899 million like-for-like on last year with the market growing ten consecutive months. The data was released in a communiqué from [...]

Workers at the VW Autoeuropa plant will know this weekend if the plant based at Palmela has secured the production of a new hybrid Volkswagen. According to an interview with Público, the Managing [...]

Exports from Portugal’s home improvements, furnishings, and décor cluster Fileira Casa Portuguesa shot up by 15% in the first quarter of 2023 with expectations that exports will exceed €2.2Bn by [...]

The British fund Arrow has purchased the furniture manufacturer Viriato in Gandra and has saved 113 jobs in the process. The fund has placed a new CEO, Jorge Neto Morgado, to manage the Viriato [...]

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 [...]

In 2022, Portugal’s footwear and leather goods cluster exported €2.347Bn, a new all-time high. When compared to the prior year, exports grew by 22,2%. All segments of the sector registered [...]

Orthopaedic footwear company ‘Neskid 4Allfeet’ and its founder Joost Pijnenburg was chosen as the entrepreneur to be highlighted at this year’s Day of the Entrepreneur. Held on November 18, [...]

Exports of Portuguese textiles and clothing is on target to hit €6Bn by the end of 2022. This compared to €5.4Bn (which was a record in itself) that was achieved at the end of 2022. “We are [...]