On November 11, Weir Group completed its acquisition of Fast2Mine, marking an important expansion of the company’s global mining software portfolio. Founded in Belo Horizonte, Fast2Mine has established itself as a leading provider of open-pit fleet and operations management solutions, supporting more than 85 mining operations in multiple countries, monitoring over 7,000 assets, and enabling more than 25,000 active users daily across Latin America, Africa, Australia and North America, with a team of over 120 employees.
IM Editorial Director Paul Moore with Fast2Mine CEO and Founder Eder Griebeler (right) and CTO Gabriel Brandao (left)
Weir CEO Jon Stanton said: “Fast2Mine is highly complementary to the Micromine portfolio, particularly the Alastri and Pitram solutions. This acquisition strengthens our strategy to provide leading software solutions across the mining value chain.” He added that the company gives Weir an immediate and robust presence in the South American software market, while unlocking promising pathways for global expansion.Â
Fast2Mine will join Micromine as part of Weir’s newly established Software Solutions group, together with NEXT Intelligent Solutions, MOTION METRICS
and Track Pro. This integrated ecosystem combines capabilities in planning, operations, maintenance, telemetry, analytics and AI to accelerate digital transformation across both open-pit and underground mines.Â
At Exposibram 2025 in Salvador, Brazil, Fast2Mine CEO and Founder Eder Griebeler described the company’s role within Weir to IM Editorial Director Paul Moore: “Micromine becomes our umbrella platform, and Fast2Mine strengthens the open-pit offering with a scalable and rapidly deployable FMS/MMS solution. Combined with Pitram’s underground strength, we now offer a complete and globally competitive software portfolio.”
The company’s portfolio includes Mining Control, Maintenance Control, Telemetry Control, MineVERSE and Mining Control BI. Fast2Mine’s technology is already deployed in large-scale operations such as ArcelorMittal’s iron ore mine in Liberia, where its systems manage real-time fleet allocation, maintenance performance and truck-cycle optimisation for extensive fleets.Â
Griebeler went on to highlight the company’s implementation model: “Our system is easy to use, easy to implement and easy to integrate. We understand that managing a mine must be simple, and our enterprise-grade architecture, combined with a powerful user interface and experience, delivers high capability with low complexity. Built as a solution structured in modules, it adapts to different operational profiles and scales efficiently across all mining segments, enabling deployment in weeks and supporting the needs of both Tier 1 and Tier 2 operations.”
Collaboration between Fast2Mine and Micromine teams is already underway in Perth, focusing on product integration and joint strategic planning. “Together, we are designing core components of the mining software ecosystem of the future,” Griebeler said. “Weir’s global reach – more than 200 offices worldwide – gives us a scale we have never had before.”
Fast2Mine CTO Gabriel Brandao reinforced to IM that artificial intelligence will be a central pillar of this next phase: “AI enables operational guidance, pattern detection and the evolution toward semi-autonomous and autonomous fleets. We have been preparing our platform to incorporate AI-driven algorithms across the entire mining workflow.”
The integration sets the foundation for a unified, high-performance and globally deployable software ecosystem designed to enhance productivity, visibility and sustainability in modern mining operations.
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