Brazil's largest RDF producer, converting industrial waste into renewable energy
Grupo Renova operates Brazil's largest refuse-derived fuel (RDF) production and distribution network, serving industrial waste management across the country. The tech stack reveals a heavy automation and ML investment—n8n, Power Automate, DataRobot, TensorFlow, PyTorch—paired with active projects in image recognition, quality control systems, and chatbot NLP. Hiring is operations-heavy (25 ops roles) and junior-weighted, signaling scaling of manual workflows and a push toward process automation; this matches their stated pain points around cost reduction and manual labor.
Grupo Renova has operated as an industrial waste management and treatment company since 1986, building Brazil's most significant RDF production and distribution operation. The company operates across waste collection, sorting, blending, and energy valorization—converting waste streams into fuel for industrial co-processing and energy generation. They serve manufacturing and industrial customers at mid-market scale across Brazil, with operations concentrated in São Paulo. The organization is privately held and structured around operations, manufacturing, and logistics, with emerging data and engineering capacity.
Core stack includes n8n and Power Automate for workflow automation, DataRobot and Azure Machine Learning for predictive analytics, Python/TensorFlow/PyTorch for ML, and Power BI for analytics. Cloud infrastructure spans AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Active projects include quality control systems for waste blending, image recognition for material sorting, NLP chatbot solutions, and intelligent automation pipelines to reduce manual processes.
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