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Antonio Correia Alves, at the age of 17, decides to venture in the world of footwear. Along with his father, José Correira de Sa, they start the firm J. “Correia de Sa e Filho, which will manufacture men footwear. So, in January 1948 it is registered the brand Dural and on February 2nd of the same year it 1-,begins to work. The factory, that has no more than five employees, is located in Esapaes. The workers of the “industry” could be narrowed down to the cutters and the sewing machine operators (nowadays known as gaspeadeira); the assembly was practially al done manually, outside the factory.