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e-Power Technology

Hyundai Mobis Goes All In for Leadership in Automotive Electrification – Multiple New Plants, Advancement in Electromagnetic Systems Design & Materials 

October 22, 2024 Editorial Staff 0

Tier-1 components manufacturer Hyundai Mobis is striding forward aggressively to build a leadership position in automotive electrification. New efforts unveiled in October include plans to build another major new electrification plant in Europe, plus a roadmap for advanced technology development with design of innovative drive systems, electromagnetic systems and nickel-free materials for inductors among the key elements.  […]

e-Power Technology

Ontario Emerging as Technology Center for Next-Gen e-Power 

August 6, 2024 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Ontario Emerging as Technology Center for Next-Gen e-Power 

Radiating from brainpower of the Automotive Excellence Centre at McMaster University, startup motor developer Enedym in collaboration with industrial neighbors Toyota Tsusho, a manufacturer of industrial trucks, and JFE Shohi Power Canada, a manufacturer of transformer cores and electrical steel products, are transforming their locale in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada into a center for next generation e-power technology. The place has roots. More than a hundred years ago, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla hung out there. […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Cyclic Materials Opens Magnet Recycling Plant, Signs Supply Deals with Solvay & Vacuumschmelze 

July 31, 2024 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Cyclic Materials Opens Magnet Recycling Plant, Signs Supply Deals with Solvay & Vacuumschmelze 

Startup recycler Cyclic Materials is stepping out to commercial operation with the opening of its first-phase plant in Canada and two new supply chain deals – one with Solvay in Brussels and another with Vacuumschmelze of Germany who has a new magnet plant now under construction in the USA.

In early June, the Toronto-based company opened its Hub100 plant in Kingston, Ontario. The plant is the first scaled version of Cyclic’s hydrometallurgical technology, REEPure, and is positioned to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology at a commercial scale. The plant has a design capacity to recycle 100 tons of magnetic material per year, producing recycled mixed rare earth oxides (rMREO) that can be reused in the rare earth magnet supply chain, as well as nickel and cobalt hydroxides. […]