Nefab is a Swedish industrial-packaging group founded in 1949, specialising in engineered transport packaging and logistics optimisation. In Portugal it operates as NEFAB – RA, Produtos de Embalagem, S.A. (NIF 506619524), established in 2003, from a site in Maia in Greater Porto. The group employs around 5,300 people across more than 30 countries and is co-owned by Sweden’s Nordic Capital and FAM.
Nefab designs and manufactures engineered transport packaging — wooden and plywood crates, pallets and protective solutions — used to move sensitive industrial goods for sectors such as telecom, energy, automotive and healthcare. Its Portuguese entity, NEFAB – RA, Produtos de Embalagem, S.A. (NIF 506619524), was established in 2003 and operates from Maia, in the Greater Porto industrial belt, combining local manufacturing with logistics and packaging-optimisation consulting for Portuguese exporters.
The parent, Nefab Group, was founded in Sweden in 1949 and headquartered in Jönköping; it employs around 5,300 people across more than 30 countries and marked its 75th anniversary in 2024. Ownership sits with Swedish institutions Nordic Capital and FAM (the Wallenberg family’s holding company) — making the Maia site a direct extension of Swedish industrial capital into Portugal.
Packaging is an unglamorous but strategic link in every export supply chain. Nefab’s Portuguese plant helps local manufacturers ship high-value goods safely into Europe and beyond, while embedding Swedish engineering standards and ownership on Portuguese soil — a concrete, industrial expression of the Nordics → Portugal corridor.
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