José Maria Cardoso Lopes Rosa, the father of the two main shareholders of Curtumes Ibéria S.A., initiated his activity in 1963 with a company under an individual name. Later on, by the end of 1975, he turned his company into a Limited Liability Company.

Through the years, several investments have been made concerning the production sector and the environment protection. In the seventies, the efforts carried out to implement constant modernization together with a persistent search for new products guided the company towards market consolidation. This market consolidation allowed to assure Curtumes Ibéria a solid place in the leather manufacturing sector, being actually one of the major companies. The following years witnessed a social evolution and a progressive growth that lead, in 1993, to the increase of the capital stock and the change into a corporation under the name of CURTUMES IBÉRIA S.A.. CURTUMES IBÉRIA S.A.