aicep Global Parques is a Portuguese public company that develops, manages, and promotes industrial and logistics parks to attract and support investment. Part of the AICEP group, it provides serviced land, infrastructure, and investor support services, acting as a single interface for site selection, utilities, licensing, and long-term aftercare.
The company manages ZILS – Sines Industrial and Logistics Zone, a large-scale industrial area adjacent to the deep-water Port of Sines with road, rail, and maritime connectivity. ZILS offers high-capacity energy and utilities access and hosts industries across energy, petrochemicals, materials, storage, and logistics, as well as emerging projects in hydrogen and renewable energy. aicep Global Parques also operates BlueBiz – Setúbal Business Park and ALBIZ – Alentejo Business Park (Vendas Novas), supporting sectors from manufacturing to logistics. Through its parks, the company facilitates the establishment and expansion of industrial operators in Portugal, including companies in the chemical and process industries.
Also known as aicep GlobalParques.
chemXplore tracks 2 projects involving aicep Global Parques, of which 2 are active.
aicep Global Parques's role on them: Developer.
2 new construction.
Licensors are recorded on 1 of these 2 projects For subscribers
Targeting: 2-Ethylhexanol (1), Antimony (1), Ethanol (1), hexan-1-ol (1), n-Butanol (1)
Covers 4,157 ha (≈21% of the municipality); 24‑month revision window; Strategic Environmental Assessment framework retained; 76.3% of land in the National Ecological Reserve.
First commercial facility will convert bioethanol into butanol, hexanol and octanol, offering low‑carbon alternatives to petrochemical products.
Sines grinding plant restarted to produce ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS); capacity >400,000 t/yr, 2,500 t ready for dispatch; near Port of Sines; supports decarbonisation and local jobs.
Antimony refinery planned at Sines industrial zone; expected to create ~150 skilled direct jobs and ~300 indirect jobs while strengthening Europe’s critical metals processing capacity.
Integrated project at Sines industrial zone with electrolysis-based hydrogen, battery storage and two multi-fuel stations offering H2 refuelling and ultra-fast EV charging.
Telesur–EllaLink deal to build Caribbean Gateway cable linking the Caribbean, Europe, US and Brazil, boosting capacity and redundancy and EU digital resilience; boosts ZILS appeal for data infra
High-quality digital infrastructure - submarine-cable access, upgraded networks and metro proximity - boosts parks' competitiveness, attracting data centres, tech clusters and global value chains.
Sines' ZILS hub attracts over €25bn in project leads; a study will quantify the port-industrial impact; Évora–Badajoz rail will strengthen hinterland access versus Valencia.
By country, the most active first.
