Elvas, Portalegre, Portugal, June 4, 2025 (Lusa) - An Angolan company specialising in food processing plans to set up a factory in Elvas, in the district of Portalegre in eastern Portugal, with an investment of around €1.5 million, the head of the business association NERPOR revealed on Wednesday.

The president of NERPOR - Portalegre Region Business Association, Tiago Braga, explained to the Lusa news agency that this entity, in partnership with small business consultancy Start PME, is one of the “main parties responsible” for bringing the project to the district.

“This is only the first, we already have several [companies] in the pipeline to bring to the region,” he added.

Regarding the project to be carried out in the border town of Elvas, Tiago Braga explained that it belongs to the Angolan company Rede Camponesa, which is already registered in Portugal.

“In the initial phase, it will be a small company,” which will create “10 jobs,” he said.

But then, he continued, “depending on how the business grows, and it has everything it needs to grow, it could even double the number of jobs”.

According to the president of NERPOR, Rede Camponesa is dedicated to the processing of food products, such as the processing of bananas and cassava into flour.

“Then they send the flour packages and here in Portugal, the factory will process it, for example, into biscuits, one of the products it will make and which is in high demand,” he explained.

At this stage, the investment is in the project phase and has already been presented to the Elvas municipal council, said the NERPOR official.

Tiago Braga also said that the company has already “identified” a building in Elvas to develop its activity and that the project promoters hope that the factory will be able to start operating “by the end of the year”.

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