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| | | Announcements | | | | Hess opens an industrial plant in Porto area | | |  |
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| | |  | | | Hess, the Swiss bus manufacturer, will start a new plant in Porto area to meet the high demand for trolleybuses and e-buses.
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| Kuehne+Nagel opens Tech Hub in Porto
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| december 2022
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| | |  | | | Transport and logistics group Kuehne+Nagel, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Switzerland, will begin its digital journey in Porto with a new tech hub that will hire 200 new talents.
Porto IT Hub will bring Kuehne+Nagel’s core logistics processes to the next level by developing e-solutions, critical products, and new digital services that make supply chains more resilient, transparent, and sustainable.
| | | | | | | TLScontact launches technology hub in Lisbon
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| NOVEMBER 2022
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| | |  | | | TLScontact, a global visa and consular services specialist, part of the French Teleperformance Group, is developing a new European technology hub in Lisbon to support international growth and the evolution of its digital platform.
The company already hired 30 people and continues to recruit for a range of technology roles.
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| | | EXPANSION | | | Nokia to open 5G and 6G R&D centre in Portugal
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| NOVEMBER 2022
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| | |  | | | Nokia announced the opening of a new R&D centre focused on 5G and future 6G mobile network technology at its Portuguese campus in the Lisbon region, aiming to create 100 new jobs within the next two years.
The vibrant technology ecosystem and highly skilled talent pool, as well as the country's stability and location in Europe, were contributing factors for Nokia to locate this centre in Portugal.
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| Continental expands to new activities
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| november 2022
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| | |  | | | The German Group Continental announced the establishment of a new company – Continental Solution Centre – in Lousado, north of Portugal, which will provide worldwide support in areas such as R&D, software & application programming, automation, SAP, hardware engineering, cloud, data science, AI, among others.
The performance of Continental's tire plant in Lousado was crucial for this expansion move, along with the success of university partnerships and a favourable business environment.
| | | | | | | Tata to establish Airline Digital Centre in Portugal
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| november 2022
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| Indian giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will establish an Airline Digital Centre (ADC) in Portugal to leverage the local talent pool and TCS’ global teams to build new systems that innovatively use digital technologies.
In the future, this ADC will be used as a nearshore centre to serve other global airline customers of TCS, creating more technology jobs in Portugal.
| | | | | | | NTT Data opens tech hub in Guarda
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| november 2022
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| | | This is the ninth tech hub established by NTT Data in Portugal, which will focus on Salesforce and customer experience. Besides the headquarters in Lisbon, NTT Data opened hubs in Braga, Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Porto, Évora and Óbidos.
| | | | | | | Inoxpa inaugurates new plant in Portugal
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| november 2022
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| Component and equipment manufacturer INOXPA, part of the Italian Group Interpump, has recently inaugurated the new Improved Solutions Portugal (ISP) plant in Vale de Cambra, Porto metro area.
| | | | | | | Portugal is home to Fujifilm’s largest Global Service Centre in Europe
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| november 2022
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| Fujifilm recently established its Global Service Centre in Gaia, north of Portugal, an operation that includes endoscope repair and the largest technical support centre in Europe for digital cameras and lenses, the CRS. This centre will now cover 25 markets in the EMEA region.
| | | | BOsch selects Braga to develop embedded software for airbags and brakes | | | |
| DECEMBER 2022
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| Bosch continues to expand its R&D capabilities in Portugal and announced it will create a new software development team of 100 for the latest generation of automotive security systems in Braga.
| | | | | | | iCAPITAL INAUGURATES NEW OFFICE IN LISBON
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| november 2022
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| Fintech platform iCapital has announced the recent expansion and official opening of its new Lisbon office as the company's global hub for technology development and operations. According to the company, the presence in Portugal is key to iCapital's global ambitions. Following the acquisition of Portugal-based product development company Runtime Group Ltd in 2020, iCapital significantly expanded its presence in Lisbon and currently employs over 150 people in Portugal.
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| |  | | | | As Cronos Europa extends its European operations in support of the digital ambitions of European Institutions, Lisbon is an obvious choice. Beyond being a strong talent hub, Lisbon’s workforce resonates with many of our values and characteristics (…) The Portuguese market offers us a pool of talent with a young and collaborative spirit, attracted by new technologies, deeply rooted in a strong human dimension, where finding creative solutions to last-minute problems is second nature, not a text-book mantra. |
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| Dirk Deroost, CEO of Cronos Group |
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