e-Power Technology

Feintool Reports Business Strong for e-Motor Cores in Asia & North America but Slow in Europe; Makes Advancement to Its ‘glulock’ Technology 

Feintool, a global manufacturer of electrical steel laminations for EV motors, reports it has won a large order for e-motor cores in China where growth is robust but the company is making cutbacks in Europe due to declines there where EV production has outpaced sales. Activity remains strong in Japan and North America, it says.
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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. […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Less Common Metals Forges Technical Advancements in Magnetic Alloys 

Less Common Metals, a refiner and leading producer of rare earth metals and alloys in the Western world, continues to expand its technical capabilities with the addition of more process equipment at its headquarters in England, with a newly designed molten salt electrolysis cell and through an innovative collaborative effort on magnet recycling. This article highlights some of the recent developments. […]