Unique Investment Opportunity: Pellet Factory, Warehouses & Land for Sale – Portalegre, Portugal
Publication date:
22/04/2025
Investment Overview
Have you taken into consideration that sometimes the difference between a real investment and an ever-so-tentatively promising one is actually just where it starts? Here’s an unusual chance to pick up a Portuguese industrial enterprise in its most stable and resource-rich region.
Business Description
This isn’t just a piece of commercial land with some buildings in it as one might think. This is an operating business. We make pellets from sawdust and sell them as heating fuel for homes or small factories.
- Area of Land: 50,000 square meters
- Floor Area of Six Linked Industrial Factories: 2,400 m² per unit
- Annual Production: We currently put out 25,000 tons per year.
- Sales: All machining contracted to a distributor in Spain for quick sales
What’s Included?
- 6 Connected Industrial Habitat Buildings: Full industrial facilities are included.
- Pellet Plants: Have been built and have outside outlets for the processing of straw (ENplus certification).
- Provisional Environmental Permits: To establish and operate a factory.
- Harvesting Rights: Privileged access to areas surrounding its forest harvesting rights.
- Solar Panels: Currently 12,800 m² area of rooftop installed already, with more panels under way.
- Electrical Infrastructure: 3,000 meters of 1m wide electrical cable needed for further solar panel installation.
- Future Installations: Additional solar panels ordered, including 1,000 m² ground-mounted ones by July 1, plus one plant with 500 m² in roof.
Logistics
- Distance to Port: 193 km to Setúbal Harbor – provides excellent export opportunities.
Financial Data
- Present annual earnings: approximately €1.5M/year
- Top-end earning potential: up to €6M/year
- Asking price is €8 million, negotiable
Business Advantages
- This is a business you do not have to start from the beginning. It is already operational and ready for expansion.
- The plant produces high-quality pellets, which make full employment possible from minimal numbers of people operating it.
- Existing Infrastructure: Virtually all of the industrial estate is set up, and the company just needs to be put right.
- Recent Installations: New solar panels have been installed.
- Raw Material Control: River/mountain concessions obtained for extraction of raw materials (with plantation license) provide a big competitive advantage to the buyer, something which only small companies in this industry usually manage to achieve.
Contact Information
If you are interested in getting your hands on a property of substance – land, machinery, business requirements, and permits, please contact us directly for the documents and to arrange an on-site visit.
