Ardoisia de Valongo

• Place of Origin:

   China

• Type:

  Slate

• Genre:

  Natural Stone

• sCode:

  STPR1463288

• Place of Origin:

  Portugal
• The Empresa das Lousas de Valongo, SA Company was established in 1865 to supply the UK and USA with roofing slate, tiles for paving and cladding, dampcourse and biliard tables.
  Nowadays, the main productions are the slabs and tiles riven, sawn or honed althougt the production of finished products keeps going on.
  In the last years, the ELV accomplished big investments in the extraction and production areas:
  – in the extraction area opened the biggest slate open cast quarry in Portugal, the quarry of Milhária, being the works
  almost completely mechanized;
  – in the production area, the investment was mainly for improving the completely finished products; purchased a semiautomatic assembly line for the tiles production, a machine specially to calibrate thicknesses and a department prepared to finish with the best quality billiard slate.
  Owner of more than 100 ha in the Valongo slate area, the ELV has very large raw material reserves.
  The actual production capability is 200 000 sqm/year, being 90% to export.
  The home market only consumes a small part of it, but it is increasing lately.
  The main markets are Germany, UK, Denmark, Spain, USA, Japan and Australia.