by Ekrem Duman | Aug 30, 2026 | Portugal Paper, Cork & Forestry, Startup
⚡ TL;DRSemapa is the Lisbon-listed holding company that controls The Navigator Company in pulp and paper, Secil in cement and building materials, and ETSA in animal by-product processing. Founded in 1991 and built by Pedro Queiroz Pereira, it is a classic...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 30, 2026 | Portugal Paper, Cork & Forestry, Startup
⚡ TL;DRPortugal’s forest debate is usually framed as a fight about eucalyptus. It is really a fight about land ownership, rural depopulation and management. Portuguese forest is overwhelmingly private and extraordinarily fragmented, large areas have no...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 30, 2026 | Portugal Paper, Cork & Forestry, Startup
⚡ TL;DRPortugal produces roughly half the world’s cork from the montado, an agro-forestry landscape of cork oak, holm oak, grazing and crops that has been managed for centuries and is one of Europe’s most biodiverse working ecosystems. The economics...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 30, 2026 | Portugal Paper, Cork & Forestry, Startup
⚡ TL;DRCorticeira Amorim is the world’s largest cork processing group, founded in 1870 and still led by the Amorim family. In 2025 it recorded sales of €861.0m, down 8.3%, EBITDA above €140m at a 16.4% margin, and net profit of €55.6m, down...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 30, 2026 | Portugal Paper, Cork & Forestry, Startup
⚡ TL;DRThe Navigator Company is Europe’s largest producer of bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp and one of the continent’s leading uncoated woodfree paper makers. 2025 was a down year in a cyclical industry: turnover fell 6% to €1,970m, EBITDA fell...