Coloplast, the Humlebæk-based Danish maker of ostomy, continence and wound-care products, inaugurated its largest factory to date in Felgueiras, northern Portugal, on 29 October 2026. The two-floor, 50,000 m² continence-care plant cost about €100 million, employs about 350 people and is expected to pass 800 jobs within three years.
Coloplast began planning a Portuguese factory in 2021 and started construction in the Alto das Barrancas industrial zone in Felgueiras, east of Porto, in the summer of 2024. The plant was inaugurated on 29 October 2026, with production already running and a local organisation of about 350 people. Allan Rasmussen, executive vice president for Global Operations, cited Portugal’s skilled workforce, competitive costs, European location and renewable electricity, and said the site diversifies a European manufacturing base that had been concentrated in Hungary. Frank Berg Rasmussen is vice president for production in Portugal.
Felgueiras joins a network of large-scale plants in Hungary, China and Costa Rica, specialised sites in the United States, France, Germany, Sweden and Iceland, and an innovation and pilot-production unit in Denmark. Coloplast says that with the Portuguese plant running it has enough capacity to meet its targets for the strategy period to 2030 without building further factories. Before the factory, Coloplast was already present in Portugal as a supplier of ostomy, continence and wound-care products to patients and the health service.
At 800 jobs, Felgueiras would rank among the largest Nordic-owned industrial employers in Portugal, alongside Boliden’s Neves-Corvo mine and NKT’s Esposende cable plant. It moves Danish medtech in Portugal from the sales side to the production side and creates demand for local suppliers of packaging, components, maintenance and logistics in the Tâmega e Sousa region. The investment was supported by AICEP, whose president Ana Casaca called it “a strong vote of confidence” in Portugal’s ability to attract strategic industrial projects.
29 October 2026: Coloplast inaugurates its Felgueiras factory. See NorthSouth HQ’s report: Coloplast Opens Its Largest Factory in Felgueiras. Sources: Coloplast press release; Felgueiras Magazine.
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