Magnetics powers the modern world – from energy generation to advanced transport and cutting-edge research. For 40 years, the Magnetics Society has connected innovators, researchers, and businesses worldwide, helping them turn ideas into breakthroughs. Today, we’re an international network driving collaboration and growth across industries and academia. How can we help you today, to create tomorrow?
People involved with the Magnetics Society believe that magnetism in all its forms is an amazing force, and that by understanding and harnessing it people can deliver amazing things.
We believe magnetics science and engineering can change the future for the better – we can create more effective forms of energy generation, develop less polluting transport, discover the secrets of the universe, manufacture materials which do less environmental damage; we can establish and build research groups, as well as companies to use that research.
We believe that people achieve more when they work together, have opportunities to share what they know and to learn from different subjects, to develop connections with like-minded people whichever country they’re from, finding partners, suppliers and customers worldwide.
40 years ago, a group of UK magnetics industrialists and academics who closely held these beliefs formed the UK Magnetics Club to give themselves a place to share their love of magnetics, and support the exploitation of magnetic phenomena in new research, services and products. The Society has evolved, becoming a more formal arrangement with more events, a magazine, and in time, a website and members outside the UK.
We’ve heard a multitude of talks, visited numerous labs (including Michael Faraday’s) and factories featuring amazing technologies and applications. We’ve connected thousands of people like you, helping them share, learn from, find, and deliver to each other –
• new companies;
• new research projects;
• new products and services;
• careers developing to Chief Engineer, VC or MD levels;
• new research proposals;
• £ Ms in research funding;
• £ Ms in sales worldwide.
To give just three examples –
• Commercialisation of magnet recycling, introducing recycled magnetic capabilities to the mine to magnet supply chain
• design and supply of high speed motors and controls for operations at an international logistics warehouse company
• development of permanent magnets synchronous motors with innovative startup and control algorithms for autonomous logistics vehicles operating independent of existing infrastructure.
Along the way we’ve had speakers hang upside down from their magnetic boots, volunteers react involuntarily to cranial stimulation, enjoyed dinners on board ship, under Concorde, in the presence of giants in the Royal Society, in vineyards, and a biscuit factory; been wowed by CERN, toured the world’s first magnet recycling system, seen beam guidance magnets in situ, visited magnet production lines, whooshed a roller coaster launch system, driven electric go karts, been honoured to present several Lifetime Contribution to Magnetics awards, partied like it’s 1999, made cocktails, heard from TV stars, and become 8 years old again in the LEGO House.
Today’s Society has over 120 university and company members from more than 20 countries, connecting thousands of people. Their expertise ranges from materials to machine design, from nano-scale to MW devices, covering superconductivity to additive manufacturing and everything in between.
We celebrate our 40th anniversary in 2026 as the Magnetics Society, an internationally oriented organisation focused on applied magnetics, impartial in terms of subject, geography, and finances as a non-profit organisation, supported only by our members and our events.
Outside our core subjects, we look to work with other organisations covering fundamental areas of research, high fields, materials development and supply, and related subjects.
Join us in shaping the future of magnetics over the next 40 years whatever country you’re based in – connect with global experts, discover new opportunities, and turn ideas into reality.
How can we help you today, to create tomorrow?
For more information, please visit www.ukmagsoc.org.
