The Exploration "Valinhos" is about 50 years old. His father, Manuel Filipe, the present owner of the land and explorer, Mr. Anthony Philip, began the search by manual methods, usual and unique at the time. The need and the lack of other raw materials, the abundance of this mineral resource in the area, the relative proximity to urban areas, including Lisbon, considering the difficulty of the transport height, dictated that the extraction was continued until the present day.
The current explorer since childhood that helped his father, along with his brothers, with the means of family subsistence, which lasted until the present day. The lack of industry and consequently jobs, coupled with the lack of alternatives and economic crisis installed for decades in Portugal, made in resistance to flow of emigration, Philip Sr.António has decided to continue the art initiated by the parent.
In the 80s, the explorer Antonio Filipe started a family and took over the business family, along with his wife, giving a new impetus to exploration, through the acquisition of the quarry and transport equipment.
In 1996, we proceeded to the purchase of the said land.
In the 90s, the current operator initiated a series of reforms that extended to the present.
Quarry Name: Quarry "Valinhos"
The Quarry Valinhos you about 50 years and existºecia is it that estraimos, Rustic Stone Yellowish where trasportemaos to our factory and the trasforma-mos in different types of cutting.
All Rustic Stone that FIND on our website or in our catalog with Valinhos designation is quarry Own