According to The Portugal News, the multinational Exlabesa, a world leader in the manufacture of industrial aluminium components, is opening a production unit in Portugal today, in Soure, Coimbra district, representing an investment of €25 million.
The investment of around 25 million euros (ME) has created 120 direct jobs.
The new Soure factory is located on a plot of land measuring 8.6 hectares (roughly the equivalent of 10 11-a-side football pitches) with a covered area of one hectare. It has two 2,800-tonne aluminium extrusion lines and an annual production capacity of 16,000 tonnes of extruded profiles.
It joins nine other production centres worldwide – located in the USA, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Morocco – from which the aluminium multinational serves 16,000 customers in 40 countries, in the areas of civil construction, automotive, transport, infrastructure and renewable energy.
The investment of around 25 million euros (ME) has created 120 direct jobs.
The new Soure factory is located on a plot of land measuring 8.6 hectares (roughly the equivalent of 10 11-a-side football pitches) with a covered area of one hectare. It has two 2,800-tonne aluminium extrusion lines and an annual production capacity of 16,000 tonnes of extruded profiles.
It joins nine other production centres worldwide – located in the USA, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Morocco – from which the aluminium multinational serves 16,000 customers in 40 countries, in the areas of civil construction, automotive, transport, infrastructure and renewable energy.
