Embraer’s Portuguese industrial base — two Évora aerostructures plants and the OGMA MRO centre at Alverca — sits inside the supply and support chain for Sweden’s C-390 Millennium fleet. Stockholm signed for four aircraft on 6 October 2025, with seven additional options, inside a trilateral Austria–Netherlands–Sweden procurement partnership.
Embraer’s European industrial centre of gravity is Portuguese. Since 2012 the Brazilian airframer has operated two aerostructures plants in Évora — one for metallic structures, one for composites — feeding its commercial and defence programmes, while OGMA, the Alverca-based MRO house founded in 1918 and majority-owned by Embraer, serves as the C-390 Millennium’s maintenance hub in Europe. In June 2026 OGMA completed the first scheduled 24-month inspection of a C-390 anywhere in Europe, on a Hungarian Air Force aircraft.
The Nordic connection was signed on 6 October 2025, when Sweden ordered four C-390 Millenniums with seven additional options, joining the trilateral procurement partnership with Austria and the Netherlands, which together ordered nine aircraft in 2024. As the Swedish fleet enters service, its through-life support economics run substantially through Portugal: the jet’s European sustainment network is anchored at Alverca, and the aircraft themselves carry Évora-built structures.
Defence-aerospace is becoming one of the corridor’s highest-value lanes. A Swedish Air Force fleet whose airframes and heavy maintenance flow through Portuguese plants ties Stockholm’s airlift capability to Portuguese industrial capacity for decades — the kind of structural link that outlasts any single contract.
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