Swedish mining and infrastructure-equipment specialist (Nasdaq Stockholm: EPI). Operates as Epiroc Portugal Unipessoal Lda, NIF 514511273, headquartered in Oeiras (Lisbon metro), with a major Iberian service footprint anchored on the Boliden Somincor Neves-Corvo copper-zinc mine — one of Europe’s most automated underground operations.
Epiroc’s Portuguese subsidiary sits at the centre of one of the most consequential Iberian mining-automation deployments. According to International Mining’s April 30, 2026 report, Boliden Somincor’s Neves-Corvo operation is running three Epiroc Scooptram ST18 loaders on Epiroc’s Deep Automation platform and a fleet of Epiroc Simba production drills commissioned in late 2024 / early 2025 after a 2023 LTE network upgrade. In the first full year, the Simbas executed roughly 10% of drilling in automated mode; by January 2026, automation reached 64% of stope tonnage mined from the surface Automation Room, with the full-year 2025 figure at 42% (about 1.13 Mt).
That puts Epiroc Portugal at the technical edge of European underground mining: the Neves-Corvo deployment is one of the most quoted reference cases for OEM-supported automation in zinc, copper and lead extraction, and the Portuguese subsidiary is the Iberian commercial and aftermarket node behind it. The company also serves wider Iberian customers including aggregates, infrastructure construction and tunnelling, with parts and service available across the country.
Boliden’s 2025 acquisition of Somincor brought one of the most modern Iberian mines fully into the Swedish orbit, and Epiroc’s installed base at Neves-Corvo turns the site into a single integrated Swedish industrial cluster — mine operator, equipment OEM, automation software stack and aftermarket service all sourced from Stockholm-listed companies. As Iberian critical-minerals pipeline (Savannah Resources lithium, Aljustrel expansion) continues to mature, Epiroc Portugal is one of the most natural beneficiaries.
The April 30, 2026 International Mining feature on Boliden Somincor explicitly named Epiroc as the OEM supplier behind the latest leg of automation gains, including the first-time use of the Deep Automation platform in production at scale. The same article confirms that drilling automation is now standard practice in stope production planning at Neves-Corvo.
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