Pilz Brazil: Safety as an engine for growth – today and in the future

Brazil is one of South America’s most impor­tant indus­trial cen­tres. The level of automa­tion is rising con­tin­u­ously, par­tic­u­larly in the auto­mo­tive, food, mining and phar­ma­ceu­tical indus­tries. At the same time, issues such as func­tional Safety and Secu­rity are becoming strate­gi­cally more rel­e­vant.

Eco­nomic con­di­tions – such as the tax reform planned for 2026 – are also dri­ving invest­ment in safe, modern pro­duc­tion processes.

Pilz Brazil: Safety expertise for a demanding market

Pilz has been on the ground in Brazil since 1998, helping indus­tries in a wide range of sec­tors to pro­tect humans, machines and processes. Based in Inda­iatuba (São Paulo) and employing around 50 staff, the sub­sidiary has become an impor­tant tech­nology partner for local com­pa­nies.

In recent years, Pilz Brazil has played an increas­ingly strategic role within the cor­po­rate group. The sub­sidiary has expanded its remit by becoming increas­ingly active in sec­tors that were not pre­vi­ously the focus of Pilz’s global activ­i­ties – including the mining sector. This devel­op­ment shows how cus­tomised safety solu­tions can open up new fields of appli­ca­tion, cre­ating addi­tional market oppor­tu­ni­ties and fur­ther con­sol­i­dating the com­pa­ny’s posi­tion in key indus­tries.

Safe automation for demanding industrial environments

In the mining sector, one of Brazil’s most impor­tant indus­trial pil­lars, Pilz Brazil is set­ting new stan­dards for safe automa­tion. In a large-scale project with one of the coun­try’s biggest mining com­pa­nies, a com­pany-wide policy doc­u­ment was pro­duced, which defines the offi­cial machinery safety require­ments for all sites. Building on this, Pilz Brazil was awarded a nation­wide con­tract for risk assess­ment and safety design, under which sev­eral thou­sand machines have already been recorded, assessed, doc­u­mented and inte­grated into struc­tured com­pli­ance processes.

Thanks to this sys­tem­atic and con­tin­uous devel­op­ment of machinery and safety con­cepts, Pilz Brazil has emerged as a glob­ally recog­nised partner for safety in mining. The methods and results devel­oped as part of the project are now also attracting atten­tion in inter­na­tional mining projects – a tes­ta­ment to the tech­nical, nor­ma­tive and prac­tical stan­dards Pilz pur­sues in demanding indus­trial envi­ron­ments.

Strong growth – and ideally positioned for the future

Pilz Brazil has devel­oped remark­ably in recent years. Since 2020, the com­pany has been able to:

• triple its turnover,
• achieve double-digit annual growth and
• fore­cast a fur­ther increase of 15% over the pre­vious year in 2026.

This dynamic con­firms the increasing impor­tance of safe automa­tion in Brazil and the strategic con­tri­bu­tion Pilz is making.

Outlook: Safety as a competitive advantage

Brazil is mod­ernising its industry. Com­pa­nies are investing in automa­tion, dig­ital infra­struc­ture and func­tional safety in order to become more effi­cient, more pro­duc­tive and inter­na­tion­ally com­pet­i­tive.

Pilz Brazil is a reli­able partner in this tran­si­tion – with tech­nology, con­sulting and a clear mis­sion: safety for human, machine and dig­ital processes.