Materials/Manufacturing

Neo Reports Robust Performance, New Euro PM Plant Nearing Completion, China Operation Sold to Shenghe Resources 

Neo Performance Materials reported strong profit increases in its full-year financial report for 2024, issued March 18. Highlights for its Neo Magnequench unit included a solid gain in earnings despite lower revenues, and continued progress in the construction of its new permanent magnet plant in Europe. In a separate announcement, the company reported on April 1 that as part of a corporate streamlining effort it completed the sale of most of its interest in a rare earth separations operation in China for about $28 million to an affiliate of Shenghe Resources. […]

Materials/Manufacturing

thyssenkrupp Modernizes Plant for Thin-Sheet Electrical Steel 

thyssenkrupp Steel has put into operation a new high-tech annealing and isolating line for producing electrical steel in Bochum, Germany. Part of a modernization project, the modern and energy-efficient plant in the Ruhr Valley now can manufacture up to 0.2 mm thin electrical sheet with particularly homogeneous mechanical and magnetic properties tailored for advanced EV motors. […]

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Heraeus Remloy Launches Recycling Plant for Neodymium Magnets in Europe 

Europe has a new buyer of scrap magnets and rare earth magnetic materials for recycling into freshly minted powders for producing high-quality magnets. Precious metals company Heraeus has begun production at what is now the continent’s largest recycling plant for rare earth magnets.

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U.S. Navy Commits $45 Million to Leonardo DRS to Expand Submarine Propulsion Facility 

Leonardo DRS announced February 24 that it has received a $45 million U.S. Navy Submarine Industrial Base investment commitment through contracts with Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding. The investment is expected to expand the […]