Vila Nova de Gaia power-cable manufacturer (Cabelte – Cabos Eléctricos, S.A., NIF 500049572, Arcozelo) whose roots go back to Jomar in 1970 and which took the Cabelte name in April 1974. It produces low-, medium- and high-voltage cables up to 275 kV at Arcozelo and its Ribeirão industrial hub in Famalicão, sells to more than 40 countries, and in March 2026 became one of five suppliers on Skellefteå Kraft’s SEK 150 million regional-grid cable framework in northern Sweden. In October 2025 it announced a €150 million new plant at Ribeirão adding 30,000 tonnes of annual capacity and more than 200 jobs.
Cabelte’s Nordic entry point is the Swedish regional grid. In March 2026 Skellefteå Kraft, the municipally owned utility serving the battery-and-hydro industrial belt around Skellefteå, concluded its “Kabel Regionnät” framework for 36 kV and 52 kV AXLJ cables with five suppliers — the wholesalers Ahlsell, Kesko (Onninen), LBS and Sonepar, and one manufacturer, Cabelte (TED 146488-2026). The framework is worth up to SEK 150 million in total. Being the only cable maker on a list otherwise made up of distributors gives the Gaia company a direct line to one of the fastest-growing grids in the Nordics.
The Swedish award follows a diversification strategy Cabelte says it began in 2007, building a presence in France and the Nordic region while expanding in Africa and South America. Capacity is being added to match: after a 2023 expansion that lifted medium- and high-voltage output by 50 percent and a new EP102 production line in 2024, the company announced on 8 October 2025 a €150 million plant at Ribeirão, Vila Nova de Famalicão, adding 30,000 tonnes of annual production and more than 200 jobs. A decarbonisation programme replacing motors and drives on all lines, with a new energy-management system, is due to complete in 2026.
Nordic grid operators are in the middle of the largest transmission and distribution build-out in decades, driven by electrification, data centres and northern Sweden’s industrial projects, and they buy through multi-year frameworks published on TED. Cabelte’s place on the Skellefteå Kraft list shows that a Portuguese manufacturer with the right certifications and price can win those frameworks against Nordic wholesalers. It is the template NorthSouth HQ expects other Portuguese electrical-equipment makers to follow, and the new Famalicão capacity suggests Cabelte intends to bid for more of them.
March 2026 — Skellefteå Kraft concludes SEK 150m regional-grid cable framework with Cabelte among five suppliers (TED 146488-2026).
October 2025 — €150 million new plant at Ribeirão announced: 30,000 t extra annual capacity, 200+ jobs (Jornal de Negócios, 8 October 2025).
2024 — New corporate identity and EP102 line; 2023 MV/HV expansion of 50%.
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