Diário do Minho: State Secretary visited companies in Póvoa de Lanhoso

Article published on Diário do Minho newspapper, about the visit of Secretary of State to the Póvoa de Lanhoso municipality, on may 10th, 2014, by Marta Encarnação.

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"Ten years old, Plako TI - a company that develops products and services in the area of technologies - has laid the first stone of a building that will have zero impact on the environment. The offices will be built with about two thousand used tires, using a construction technique developed by an American eco-architect.

Moisés Campos, executive director, considers that the Utopia project serves to show that technology-driven companies can move from the big cities to rural areas and continue to grow. «We don't exchange this bird orchestra and water melody for the car horns and their stinky exhausts for nothing,» he said.

The responsible suggested to the secretary of state the creation of a barometer of innovation and support to entrepreneurship, mentioning that the municipality of povoense is an excellent candidate for the prize."