Paredes
The city of Paredes is located in the north of Portugal, in the Oporto region. It has approximately 90,000 inhabitants and occupies and area of 156 km2. Located on Furniture Row, the main economic activity of the city is the furniture industry, responsible for 65% of Portuguese national furniture production.Dados de contato
Experiências - Notícias
Businesspeople for Social Inclusion
The Association of Businesspeople for Social Inclusion decided to intervene in the sphere of education in order to fight against school leaving and failure by creating a network of training mediators, and with the collaboration of the City Council of Paredes. [...]
A Factory for Timor
The main industry of Paredes is the manufacturing of furniture. In order to offer aid and employment opportunities to the population of East Timor –which has raw material to dedicate to this production-, the City Council of Paredes is driving this collaboration initiative. [...]
Creation of a briquette manufacturing
Paredes is a city that has 1,260 furniture factories. Aware as it is of this fact, the City Council looked for a solution in order to recycle the wood left over of the factories, transforming it into briquettes, which are used as fuel in schools and other public establishments. [...]