Industrial Automation and Robotics

SHAPE THE FUTURE

Industrial Automation and Robotics

SHAPE THE FUTURE

Explosives Market

120 YEARS OF HISTORY, BUILDING THE FUTURE WITH SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY



At the heart of the industry that drives the world, Groupe Snef is your strategic innovation partner, delivering cutting-edge solutions for critical operations – including the handling and automation of explosives in mining.


With a global presence and strong roots, we are an independent group that combines a century of experience with a future-driven vision. We operate with responsibility, excellence, and respect for the environment, boosting productivity with a strong focus on safety, reliability, and sustainability.

Our engineering teams are on the ground, side by side with the real challenges of your operation.



Evolving tradition, transforming innovation.

Explosives Market

120 YEARS OF HISTORY, BUILDING THE FUTURE WITH SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY



At the heart of the industry that drives the world, Groupe Snef is your strategic innovation partner, delivering cutting-edge solutions for critical operations – including the handling and automation of explosives in mining.


With a global presence and strong roots, we are an independent group that combines a century of experience with a future-driven vision. We operate with responsibility, excellence, and respect for the environment, boosting productivity with a strong focus on safety, reliability, and sustainability.

Our engineering teams are on the ground, side by side with the real challenges of your operation.



Snef: evolving tradition, transforming innovation.

Innovating Processes

Shape the future

Innovating Processes

Shape the future

Explosive Industry

Robotic Technology for

the Safe Production of Initiators

This solution combines high-level engineering with industrial automation and robotics, resulting in a compact, intelligent, and robust system, capable of operating with precision and reliability in demanding industrial environments...

This solution combines high-level engineering with industrial automation and robotics, resulting in a compact, intelligent, and robust system, capable of operating with precision and reliability in demanding industrial environments.


Smart Factory for the Explosives Market

Turning Complexity into Performance: The Smart Factory for Non-Electrical Initiators

We have developed a fully integrated and scalable production line for non-electrical initiators, built on cutting-edge technology, safety, traceability, and performance...


Explosive Industry

iQ Booster

Automated Dosing Manifold - Pentolite

Pilot project development, modular and scalable for an automated robotic line for PENTOLITE BOOSTER. Feeding empty booster, pentolite dosing and cooling final product automatly...

Pilot project development, modular and scalable for an automated robotic line for cylindrical initiators BOOSTER, providing dosage, plugging (manual), and cooling of the Booster product.


Smart Factory for the Explosives Market

Total Efficiency: The New Generation of Automated Booster Production Lines

We present a fully integrated solution for automated Booster manufacturing — a system that goes far beyond simple dosing.




We present a fully integrated solution for automated Booster manufacturing — a system that goes far beyond simple dosing.



Industrial Robotics

iQ HiO

Humanoid Industrial Operator

We develop and integrate humanoid robots for end-to-end industrial processes - from programming to fleet operation in critical, high-repeatability activities...

The Mobile Manipulator that integrates a collaborative robotic arm with an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR), providing greater flexibility to production...


Industrial Robotics

iQ Inspector

Intelligent Inspection for Industrial Prevention

Performs intelligent patrols across production lines with real-time monitoring of audio, visual, thermal, gas, and other data, anticipating failures and enhancing safety...

Industrial Intralogistics

SNEF MoMa

Mobile Manipulator

The Mobile Manipulator that integrates a collaborative robotic arm with an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR), providing greater flexibility to production...


The Mobile Manipulator that integrates a collaborative robotic arm with an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR), providing greater flexibility to production...


Industrial Intralogistics

AGV Plataforms

Hi-Performance in Autonomous Vehicles

SNEF’s AGV solutions are redefining industrial intralogistics by raising automation, safety, and performance to a new level...



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Smart automation solutions

Discover More

Smart automation solutions

Steel Market

SNEF Shooter



Optimize your BOF gunning with smart automation, collaborative robots, and computer vision. Greater precision, reduced losses, and high performance.







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Steel Market

SNEF Shooter



Optimize your BOF gunning with smart automation, collaborative robots, and computer vision. Greater precision, reduced losses, and high performance.


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Steel Market

SNEF Gunning



Optimize your Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) with automated gunning, intelligent software, and high-precision collaborative robots. Increase productivity, extend campaigns, and enhance safety and efficiency.





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Steel Market

SNEF Gunning



Optimize your Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) with automated gunning, intelligent software, and high-precision collaborative robots. Increase productivity, extend campaigns, and enhance safety and efficiency.


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Mining Market

SNEF Charger



Robot charger for remote blasting at the rock face in underground mining. Enhanced safety for underground mining with advanced robotics. Our system integrates intelligent vision, crane and robotic arm control, and seamless communication with the transport vehicle — all adaptable to any vehicle model.


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Mining Market

SNEF Charger



Robot charger for remote blasting at the rock face in underground mining. Enhanced safety for underground mining with advanced robotics. Our system integrates intelligent vision, crane and robotic arm control, and seamless communication with the transport vehicle — all adaptable to any vehicle model.


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"It’s an unprecedented leap.


We are entering a new era where cognitive robots, general AI, and autonomous systems will reinvent industry from the ground up.



Factories that never sleep. Machines that learn on their own. Jobs that vanish — and others that haven’t even been invented yet.


And what drives this transformation?

Flexible innovation – iQanto Solutions



The logic of the 6th Industrial Revolution lies not only in radical automation, but in the intelligent and continuous adaptability of technologies to context, demand, and humanity.

This is the era of flexible technology — technology that adapts, evolves, and responds — in real time — to the needs of a dynamic and unpredictable industry.


While many are still trying to understand what’s coming, we at iQanto Brazil, together with the Business Units of Snef, are already there — in the future — leading, innovating, and safeguarding the future of Brazilian industry.



All of this may sound intimidating. But don’t fear the future.

Be part of it.



The revolution will be automated — and we are shaping the future.

We are part of it."

Edilson Zanardi

Industrial Automation and Robotics

iQanto – Groupe Snef

Groupe Snef

ABOUT THE BLOG



Welcome to the SNEF – iQanto Unit blog! This is your space to explore the world of industrial robotics and automation.


Here, you’ll find technical and up-to-date content about iQanto’s innovative solutions, along with insights into how process automation can transform operations, boost efficiency, and add value to industries.

iQanto - ID

Movement – Mobile robots, conveyors, sorters, and traceability.

Transformation – Aggregation, assembly, organization, sorting, and vision.

Packaging – Case packing, palletizing, and depalletizing.



Rio Claro, São Paulo - Brazil

luciano.silva@snef.com.br

Movement – Mobile robots, conveyors, sorters, and traceability.

Transformation – Aggregation, assembly, organization, sorting, and vision.

Packaging – Case packing, palletizing, and depalletizing.



Rio Claro, São Paulo - Brazil

luciano.silva@snef.com.br

groupesnef.fr/iqanto/en/