The €140 million PRR-backed LUS 222 programme has finally locked in production at Ponte de Sor, 12-20 aircraft per year, and a 2031 market launch targeting last-mile aviation in Brazil, Peru, Angola and Southeast Asia.
Continental Mabor confirmed 215 new Lousado hires in the first half of 2026 — workforce climbs to 3,200, an all-time Famalicão record — as Pedro Carreira marks 80 years of tyre production and 36 years inside Continental AG and signs a FORAVE skills memorandum with the Câmara Municipal.
INE's 1 June release puts April's industrial production at 0.0% year-on-year, with the energy grouping contracting 17.2% (largely electricity). Manufacturing holds at 2.8% and the IPI excluding energy reads 3.8%.
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.
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...
Bosch's Portuguese subsidiary closed 2025 at €2.2 billion in revenue — down 2.6% from the €2.4 billion record posted in 2024 — with the contraction almost entirely explained by the mid-2024 divestiture of the Building Technologies...
A Quiet Industrial Milestone Portugal produced 240,400 vehicles in 2025, overtaking Italy to become the ninth-largest car manufacturer in the European Union. The achievement, recorded in data from the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association...
