Materials/Manufacturing

Neo Performance Materials Purchases Samag Magnet Manufacturing Facility near Shanghai; Reports Lower Revenues for First Half of 2019

Neo Performance Materials Inc. has acquired a magnet manufacturing plant near Shanghai for $9.7 million where it will produce compression molded magnets using its Magnequench Neodymium-Iron-Boron (NdFeB) powders. Separately, the company reports that it experienced an […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Hoganas Sustainability Efforts Achieve 83% Use of Side Streams Globally; Plans Expansion at North America Facility

Hoganas, a producer of iron and metal powders including soft magnetic alloys, reports that its innovative sustainability efforts are achieving 83% use of side stream materials at its facilities worldwide, also that it is adding new […]

Materials/Manufacturing

RINA Announces WMM ’20 Conference to be held in Rome

Organized by RINA, the 9th International Conference Magnetism and Metallurgy WMM’20 will take place from June 23rd to 25th, 2020 in Rome, Italy.  Dr. Stefano Fortunati will be chairman of the conference together with Prof. Rudolf Kawalla co-chairman of WMM’20. Dr […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Soft Ferrite Core Material with Low Core Loss in High Frequencies Developed by Hitachi

Hitachi Metals has developed a new soft ferrite core material designed to handle the high frequencies required in the increasingly high-speed networks operating in data centers and automobiles, also for smartphones, servers and other network equipment.  Its […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Vacuumschmelze develops new cobalt-iron magnetic alloy for motors

A new cobalt-iron magnetic alloy material for electric vehicle motors and other applications has been developed by Vacuumschmelze, building on its expertise in making lightweight high-power alloys for race cars and aircraft.  The company says that its Vacoflux X1 material closes the gap between electrical steel […]