Laminar

60 years of History

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  1957

  How it all began

  
  

  Mr. António Luís Quintino and Mr. João Monteiro Marques founded Quimar - a combination of the surnames Quintino and Marques - with the intent of marketing construction industry materials and wood-based products.
• 1964

  Opening of the 2nd store, sales storage

  
  

  The opening of a second store takes place: the sales storage in Avenida Elias Garcia, in Lisbon.
• 1968

  Purchase of a factory in Oporto

  
  

  With the purchase of a plywood and laminated factory, in Oporto, they take a decisive step towards the future of the company and towards the path they would take, thus beginning the industrial activity.
• 1972

  Purchase of carpentry

  
  

  The purchase of a carpentry takes place, in Maris, Odivelas, with the purpose of transforming in finished products (profiles and linings) the by-product coming from the factory.
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  1981

  Purchase of a ground in Avintes

  
  

  This purchase aimed at the establishment of an industrial complex that is nothing more than the facilities where we are today. This project will be carried out between 1985 and 1991, year in which the global project started.
• 1984

  Construction of a new carpentry

  
  

  This carpentry in Frielas starts as a central storage, and from two merchandise storages, but already with the Avintes global project in mind.
• 1985-1991

  Avintes Project

  
  

  Accomplished in 4 stages, in 1986 the construction of the sawmill begins. In 1988 the construction and assembling of the flat-cutting line begins. In the following year, the assembling of a new line of manufacturing-peeling and drying of veneers is accomplished. In the year of 1991 the reinstallation and modernisation of the equipment and assembling of a new line of plywood and trims is done.
• 1992

  Segregation between commercial and industrial activity

  
  

  The company, hitherto named Quimar - Materiais de Construção, Lda, changes its designation to Quimar (Norte) - Indústria de Contraplacados, Lda and changes its headquarters to Avintes, starting to introduce itself as an industrial company. The commercial activity carries in parallel in other companies specifically created for that purpose.
• 1998

  Change of shareholder structure

  
  

  67% of its capital is then acquired by Holdingpar, SGPS SA, company partners of the group owned by Engineer Jaime Teixeira, and later, in 2001, the remaining 33% are purchased and the company starts to make the journey towards changing the trading name, with the abandonment of the connection to the Quintino and Marques (QUIMAR) families.
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  2000

  Flat-cutting veneer

  
  

  Construction from scratch of a new flat-cutting veneer production unit.
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  2003

  Change

  
  

  The company is now named LAMINAR - Indústria de Madeiras e Derivados, SA. and adopts a new image.
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  2008

  Worldwide financial crisis

  
  

  The beginning of the financial and economical crisis that ravaged us and that was felt severely in the construction industry market, the level of sales starts to fall and in an Herculean attempt to keep up the levels of activity and to assure the largest number of jobs possible, a diversification of the activity took place, with the inclusion of our purpose of the residential caravan production strand, which was only possible because the company is inserted in a group that includes Orbitur, a company in the area of tourism and that is devoted to the exploration of campsites.
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  2017

  60 Years - The future starts today...

  
  

  And it is in this framework, still not very favourable that the improvement trend, to the local businesses of construction industry and public works, that we completed the 60 years of activity: working in the edge of effort to keep the desired levels of turnover, to keep the customers satisfied, and to honour commitments with suppliers, with the staff and with other partners. This is a balance that is not easy to achieve, but which, for that reason, defies us and sharpens our determination.