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Five new Sanjo canvas shoes in navy, black, white, blue and red on a retail display shelf, still carrying their swing tags and price labels

Seventy-One Portuguese Footwear Companies Open a Milan Week With a 100 Million Euro Investment Cycle Behind Them

Thirty-two exhibit at Micam, thirty-one at Lineapelle and eight at Simac. What they are showing is the output of two Recovery Plan projects worth about 110 million euros between them.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

Rows of new Volkswagen T-Roc cars on the quay at the port of Setubal with a Grimaldi Lines car carrier moored behind them

Portuguese Car-Parts Exports Fell 7.8 Percent to July, and Germany Alone Took 14.3 Percent Less

AFIA puts January to July component exports at 5,994 million euros. Spain and Germany, which take roughly half the total between them, account for almost the whole of the fall.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

The EDP combined-cycle gas power station at Lares, Figueira da Foz, with two red and white stacks above green turbine halls and the site sign at the gate.

Portugal's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 1.6 Percent Last Year While the EU's Fell, and Gas-Fired Power Explains Most of the Gap

The Joint Research Centre's 2026 EDGAR release puts Portugal at 53.11 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2025, up 820,000 tonnes. Power generation and industrial burning account for 72 percent of the rise. The EU total fell 0.2 percent over the same year.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The main square of Cantanhede in central Portugal, with the white parish church and its stone bell tower, cafe awnings, palms and an equestrian statue beyond

A Cantanhede Metalworker Commits Two Million Euros to a Fourth Hall Because Defence Already Buys a Fifth of What It Makes

Vesam builds from October and runs from mid-2027, roughly doubling its pre-assembly and testing area. Defence is 20 percent of turnover, space is starting, and more than 95 percent of the work goes abroad.

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

Rows of nineteenth-century townhouse facades in Vila Nova de Famalicao, painted pink and blue above and tiled in patterned azulejos below, with white iron balconies against a clear blue sky.

Portugal's Clothing and Textile Industry Is 11,965 Companies and 118,000 Jobs, and a New Study Says It Is the Factories, Not the Brands, Driving the Green Switch

A Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos study sizes the sector at 1.7 percent of GDP and 7.8 percent of exports, with 87 percent of the turnover in the north. Its seven case studies find Portuguese mills, not their customers, developing the new materials and processes.

The Portugal Brief 04 Sep 2026

A wide view across Coimbra's hillside rooftops, rows of pale apartment blocks and older houses with orange tiled roofs stacked up the slope under a blue sky with scattered cloud.

SRAM Breaks Ground on a Third Coimbra Factory, Betting 57.5 Million Euros That Europe's Bike Parts Should Be Made in Portugal

The American components maker laid the first stone on Thursday. The AICEP contract signed in May carries 527 jobs, 16.9 million euros of state money and a mid-2028 opening. Coimbra's mayor says a parking rule nearly cost the city the plant.

The Portugal Brief 03 Sep 2026

A whitewashed roadside wall lettered Vila de Tramagal, with a restored yellow Metalurgica Duarte Ferreira agricultural machine displayed on the bank in front of it

Tramagal Restarted on 24 August, Not in September, and Mitsubishi Fuso Now Calls It the Central Plant for Its European Operations

The company reaffirmed the Abrantes factory after its parent joined the ARCHION Group, but would not confirm the 20 trucks a day its union has published, would not forecast 2027, and has not reported June or July output to ACAP.

The Portugal Brief 03 Sep 2026

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