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Mitsubishi Fuso Notifies IEFP of an Eventual July Lay-Off Covering Up to 400 Tramagal Workers — Diesel Canter Sunset Routes the Plant Toward eCanter-Only European Production for the Daimler Truck Stack

Mitsubishi Fuso Notifies IEFP of an Eventual July Lay-Off Covering Up to 400 Tramagal Workers — Diesel Canter Sunset Routes the Plant Toward eCanter-Only European Production for the Daimler Truck Stack

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Europe has notified Portugal's IEFP of an eventual lay-off covering up to 400 Tramagal workers in July, per a 15 May Ministério do Trabalho response to a PCP question. The diesel Canter sunset routes the Daimler Truck-owned plant toward eCanter-only European production.
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Efacec Hauls In a Multi-Year Several-Hundred-Million-Euro French Network Framework on Thursday 28 May — Power Transformers and Fluorinated-Gas-Free Medium-Voltage Equipment Bound for Mainland France and the DOM-TOM Out of Leça do Balio

Efacec Hauls In a Multi-Year Several-Hundred-Million-Euro French Network Framework on Thursday 28 May — Power Transformers and Fluorinated-Gas-Free Medium-Voltage Equipment Bound for Mainland France and the DOM-TOM Out of Leça do Balio

Efacec announced on Thursday 28 May a multi-year framework with the French electricity network worth several hundred million euros — power transformers and fluorinated-gas-free medium-voltage switchgear shipped from Leça do Balio to mainland France and the DOM-TOM under Mutares ownership.
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Automotive components assembly line — illustrative

Coindu Walks Up to 493 of Its 752 Joane Famalicão Workers Into a Six-Month Phased Lay-Off Running May to November 2026 — Another Print for Portugal's 2026 Auto-Components Ledger After Bosch, Husqvarna, Yazaki and Enercon

Coindu opens a six-month phased lay-off at Joane, Vila Nova de Famalicão, running May–November 2026, with up to 493 of 752 workers in the contingency pool. The auto-components supplier cites tariffs, war, and a demand drop — and projects an activity recovery in 2027.
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Husqvarna Group Walks the Rio de Mouro Sintra Factory Into Its End-of-2026 Closure Window — Stone Diamond Tools Exit Cuts SEK 250 Million of Annual Sales Across Portugal, Belgium and Greece in Glen Instone's Portfolio Cut

Husqvarna Group Walks the Rio de Mouro Sintra Factory Into Its End-of-2026 Closure Window — Stone Diamond Tools Exit Cuts SEK 250 Million of Annual Sales Across Portugal, Belgium and Greece in Glen Instone's Portfolio Cut

The Swedish power-tools group Husqvarna has confirmed that its stone-diamond-tools manufacturing operations in Rio de Mouro, Sintra — alongside companion sites in Belgium and Greece — walk into a closure window that completes by the end of 2026. The...
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Hovione Names António Almeida and Marco Gil Co-CEOs as Jean-Luc Herbeaux Steps Down on 21 May After Three-Year Run — Both Incoming Executives Carry 19-Year Tenures and the Permanent CEO Search Is Already Open

Hovione Names António Almeida and Marco Gil Co-CEOs as Jean-Luc Herbeaux Steps Down on 21 May After Three-Year Run — Both Incoming Executives Carry 19-Year Tenures and the Permanent CEO Search Is Already Open

Hovione, Portugal's flagship pharmaceutical contract-development-and-manufacturing group, will replace Jean-Luc Herbeaux with a two-person co-CEO bridge on 21 May 2026. António Almeida (CFO) and Marco Gil (SVP Sales & Marketing) take the top job jointly; both joined Hovione in 2007.
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