Materials/Manufacturing

Neo Performance Materials Reports 23% Decline in Magnequench Business Due to Pandemic; SAMAG Acquisition Doing Well, says New CEO

Victimized by the global pandemic, business dropped 23% in the first six months of this year for the Neo Magnequench business unit of Neo Performance Materials, widely considered a bellwether of the magnetic materials industry. Revenues for Magnequench dropped to $68.8 million from $89 […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Backed by ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel, AM/NS Is New Face for Electrical Steel Production in India

Backed by the deep pockets and persistence of ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel, AM/NS is emerging as the new face of Essar Steel in India, a large but insolvent manufacturer of electrical and other steel products that the two partners […]

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Two Big Magnetic IC Portfolios Come Under One Roof as Infineon Technologies Acquires Cypress Semiconductor

Two semiconductor companies with extensive portfolios in magnetics technology are now under one roof with the acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor, based in San Jose, CA, by Infineon Technologies, headquartered in Munich. The 9 billion Euro […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Cleveland-Cliffs Acquires AK Steel and Pursues Change to U.S. Trade Policies on Laminations, Transformer Cores & Electrical Steel

Having closed on his company’s $3 billion acquisition of AK Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves is wasting no time seeking change to U.S. trade policies that he says unfairly hurt the steel maker’s business as a […]