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A New Futuristic Headquarters for the Portuguese Plant Designer Solintellysys
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Figure 1: The project of the new headquarters of Solintellysys, in the Parque Empresarial Do Casarão of Borralha.
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ortugal 2020 is the partnership agreement
an indoor garden, a swimming pool, and a gym for
undertaken between Portugal and the European
employees.
Commission, which brings together the five
“We work constantly under pressure, because the
Structural and Investment European Funds (ERDF,
surface treatment market is demanding and it requires
Cohesion Fund, ESF, EAFRD, and EMFF) setting the
very tight delivery times. Our target market is also
programming principles that enshrine the economic,
vast, since we supply plants and machines throughout
social, and territorial development policy to be
Europe, Central and South America, and Africa: that
advanced in Portugal between 2014 and 2020. These
is why the physical and psychological well-being of
programming principles are aligned with the Smart,
Solintellysys’ team is crucial to our success,” says João
Sustainable and Inclusive Growth goals of the Europe
Figueiredo, the founder, owner, and general manager of
2020 Strategy. Under this program, Portugal is set to
the company. “Precisely the know-how and harmony of
receive 25 billion Euro until 2020 to stimulate growth
our team have enabled our company to develop to such
and job creation.1
an extent in just ten years, and my goal is to protect it
The impressive investment recently made by
and offer it the best.”
Solintellysys, a plant engineering company (Águeda
By 2020, Solintellysys intends to increase not only its
de Cima, Portugal) established in 2008 for the design
turnover but also the number of its employees, as well
and manufacture of highly efficient and advanced
as becoming among the ten leading European plant
technological surface treatment solutions, falls within the
designers. “The new headquarters will also include a
scope of Portugal 2020. Thanks to an investment of 11
large area dedicated to the industrial training of recent
million Euros, financed for about a third by the European
graduates in scientific and technical subjects,” states
Community, Solintellysys’ brand new headquarters
Figueiredo. “We have created a cluster with Bosch,
(Fig. 1) located in the Parque Empresarial Do Casarão
Siemens, and the Universities of Lisbon, Coimbra, and
in Borralha, a few kilometres from Águeda, will cover
Porto to create training events helping young people
an area of around 15,000 m2. It will feature a large
understand the industrial world and face the world of
production area equipped with the latest production
work with greater preparation.”
technologies (laser cutting, bending, welding, etc.),
Solintellysys’ new premises will be inaugurated by the
a large technical and design office, meeting rooms,
end of 2018 to celebrate the company’s ten-year history.
training areas for employees and customers, and even For further information: 1
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