Swedish nanoimprint lithography (NIL) pioneer, listed on Nasdaq First North, whose subsidiary Obducat Portugal is carrying out an €18.5 million expansion of the group’s foundry (contract manufacturing) business — backed by a €7.4 million investment grant from Portugal’s IAPMEI awarded in November 2025, the maximum support level available.
Obducat Portugal owns the group’s foundry-expansion project: a new cleanroom and advanced process equipment intended to lift contract-manufacturing capacity to roughly 4–5 times current levels. The company has also begun an application process with Banco Português de Fomento and is addressing Portuguese co-investors alongside it.
In May 2026 Obducat signed a three-year foundry service agreement worth at least SEK 115 million with a European photonics customer supplying the defence industry — volumes the expanded Portuguese operation is positioned to support.
Semiconductor-adjacent manufacturing is exactly the industrial profile Portugal’s incentive system is built to attract. A listed Nordic technology company routing its production scale-up through a Portuguese subsidiary — with national agency support — is a template other Nordic deep-tech firms can copy.
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