HISTORY

Silvinhas Company of soles for the footwear industry, founded in 1981 by José Bastos da Silva, in Cesar, municipality of Oliveira de Azemeis.

With their arrival the Portuguese market, after a journey in the footwear industry in which, thanks to his passion and strategic vision, the founder led the company to meet the challenges and demands of the market's height. Thus was born a company so "familiar" with the capacity to manufacture of soles for shoes.

In 1987 / 8, the Company makes an investment in machinery bicolor most advanced in terms of technology, capacity, productivity and quality, in order to cope with the demands of its customers, also opting to purchase cutting edge equipment in the finishing product.

In 1990, Silvinhas build from scratch an industrial building with covered area of 4000 m2 that allowed optimizing the manufacturing process, but also an investment in new machines to meet the demand in production capacity at the time.
So were the conditions in conjunction with the office area, laboratory, sample rooms, offices, and other social areas, able to face a decade-long production of footwear.

With the reach of the new millennium, it is an investment in the production of PUR, thus constituting the largest investment in machinery so far by the Company, enabling the production of soles with high quality, different densities and hardness, all in accordance with the needs of our customers.

The Company therefore has a high production capacity, emphasizing the production of soles TR (compact / extended), TPU and PU, in addition to conventional PVC soles.

Silvinhas is a company with 30 years of proven experience in the manufacture of soles for footwear, is today a modern and dynamic company capable of meeting the challenges and demands of the market. Experience has the know-how to use the best raw materials the latest technologies you press us to ensure the best service for maximum satisfaction of all our customers.
The company owns the Portuguese brand "Silvinhas".

VISION

Be the solution and the choice of our customers with products for the manufacture of footwear reference to national / international. Be the best option in those segments where it operates, taking appropriate products and services highly competitive and qualified to potential consumers.

MISSION

Design, develop, produce and market, are the premises to create value for customers, employees, suppliers, communities with which it interacts and contributes to improving the environment and quality of life in general. Support and encourage initiatives aimed at sustainable development of the sector. Being a company with national presence, an updated and pleasant environment.

MARKET

It exports all over the world. It has the privilege of being present at reputable stores from many countries, household products for our customers. The company employs a staff that takes a young spirit, dynamic, professional with total flexibility, allowing you to forward to several projects with the maximum guarantees of quality, efficiency and delivery, thus employing our core value: Know-how.

With the central premise of a rapid production capacity, develop and commercialize soles one-color injected in TR (expanded, single), PVC and other thermoplastic compounds. We produce two-color soles in TR and TPU outsoles as well as PUR.

The Company is specialized in the production of soles with turn to, as well as TR and PVC soles combined with various materials (leather, etc.), With most types of finishes.

VALUES

The performance of the Company reflects its core values:
•    Cooperation and partnership
•    Professionalism and thoroughness
•    Integrity and honesty
•    Inovation and continuous improvement with a sense of speed
•    Construction of this driven by vision.

CULTURE

People Culture - People are a fundamental reference of the management staff that values and recognizes that these are the source of an attitude of constant renewal and leverage the competitiveness of the Company.

Corporate Culture - Company attentive to consumer needs and emerging trends, recognizes the importance of developing innovative products, strengthening the image and customer service as key differentiators. Evolved in order to give a more differentiated, flexible, efficient and positive ideals that the Company shall, focusing on the development of methodologies able to integrate, as appropriate, and pro-active, the activities of product design and communication with the technical expertise of engineering and production, in pursuit of new approaches, ideas and ways to meet its objectives.