Given the experience gained in previous years to the company foundation and through the management of his father, it was growing on their own, thanks to the dynamism imposed by the main shareholder Sir BERNARDINO DAS NEVES FERREIRA, which got the company to be implanted domestic and external, through the quality of its products and the seriousness with which they had in business, and are still essentially the predicates that dominate the company.

Thanks to steady growth both in the number of workers, both in terms of turnover, the facilities were increasingly cramped compared to the demands of the industrial market, either in technology or in the area of production and increases qualidade.Apesar checked almost all year by building warehouses there was no room for further enlargement, which meant that if I started to think seriously about new facilities, bringing the company to make investments with equity in order to create necessary conditions for a major industrial development .

In 2001, he acquired another company named IPC - Industria de Produtos de Cortiça, S.A., headquartered in the Industrial Area of Casalinho in Lourosa with the advantages of further growth, given the conditions of the plants, which in addition to being new were functional. Management understood then, change the social pact, changing its name to BERNARDINO & FERREIRA, SA from the end of 2002, while for short and during the first half of 2003 to merge the two companies, keeping however this last name, and its capital of 600,000.00 € uros and distributed by the five brothers to work at the company, and Mr. Bernardino das Neves Ferreira the manager and Chairman of the Board.

The company employs currently about 50 workers, one administrative, one Accounting Technician and an Engineering Chemistry, and its Industrial Park in terms of equipment good technological value and quality, with production capacity for their needs at the moment and resources to higher productivity if the market requires it.