Portuguese ceramic floor- and wall-tile manufacturer founded in 1964 in Fiães (Santa Maria da Feira), today part of Italy’s Ricchetti Group. With around 400 employees it exports roughly 65% of its production to more than 70 countries, with Sweden and Finland explicitly named among its core export destinations.
CINCA — Companhia Industrial de Cerâmica, S.A. is one of the longer-running Portuguese ceramic-tile producers, founded in early 1964 in Fiães (municipality of Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro district) to make 2.5×2.5 cm ceramic mosaics. It has since grown into porcelain stoneware floor and wall tiles, operating four manufacturing units with a maximum capacity of around 5.2 million m² per year and employing roughly 400 people. In 1998 the company was acquired by Italy’s Gruppo Ceramiche Ricchetti, alongside brands such as Cerdisa, Ceramiche Ricchetti and Pukkila.
CINCA exports about 65% of its production and distributes to more than 70 countries across five continents. Its commercial profile explicitly names Sweden and Finland — alongside the United States, France and Germany — as core export markets, putting Portuguese-made tile into Northern European specifier and distribution channels.
CINCA is one of the most explicit Portuguese ceramic-tile footprints inside the Nordic built-environment supply chain — a category historically dominated by Italian and Spanish producers. The named Sweden and Finland markets sit inside a wider Portuguese ceramic-tile export story (CINCA, Margres, Recer and others) that is steadily winning shelf space and specifier mindshare among Nordic distributors, and the Italian Ricchetti ownership gives CINCA access to a pan-European sales network feeding those markets.
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