Manuel de Sousa Lopes, S.A., trading as Sepol (NIF 500181110), is a family-owned button and fashion-trims maker in Louro, Vila Nova de Famalicão, founded in 1927. Swedish denim brand Nudie Jeans has bought buttons directly from Sepol since 2023; its 2025 supplier list records 55 workers at the factory.
Racius lists Manuel de Sousa Lopes, S.A. (NIF 500181110) as a public limited company in Louro, Vila Nova de Famalicão, with share capital of €1,350,000. Its main activity code covers zips, buttons and similar articles, with secondary codes in mixed and textile wholesale. The company trades as Sepol – Fábrica de Botões e Acessórios de Moda and describes itself as a family business founded in 1927 and a pioneer of button-making in Portugal. Its range runs from buttons in natural materials such as corozo, wood, mother-of-pearl and coconut to brass, stainless-steel, zamac, nylon and polyester parts, as well as jeans buttons, rivets, eyelets, buckles and stoppers for the clothing and footwear industries. It also sells zips and garment-tagging equipment through an online shop, and says it has an in-house design and development team and OEKO-TEX certification.
Nudie Jeans’ published 2025 supplier list names Sepol as a direct button supplier to the Gothenburg denim brand since 2023, with 55 workers (30 men, 25 women). That is below the team of 80 that Sepol cites on its own website; the two figures may cover different dates or scopes. Sepol also sells to the Portuguese public sector: Portugal’s BASE procurement portal records 14 contracts, most recently plastic straps for the Alto Alentejo local health unit (ULS do Alto Alentejo), signed in March 2026 for €12,127.
Buttons and rivets are small parts of a pair of jeans, but they are among the hardest components for a brand to source close to its sewing lines. A near-centenary trims maker in the Famalicão–Braga textile cluster that supplies a Swedish denim brand directly shows how Nordic apparel buyers are moving accessories, not just finished garments, into the northern Portuguese supply base.
Sources: Nudie Jeans supplier list (2025 data, xlsx); Racius and nif.pt (NIF 500181110); Sepol – about us; BASE public procurement portal. Fetched 10 November 2026.
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