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Materials/Manufacturing

Bunting Joins Rare Earth Magnets Recycling Task Force

November 14, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Bunting Joins Rare Earth Magnets Recycling Task Force

The launch of the European Union (EU)-funded SUSMAGPRO project took place in Germany in June 2019.  The four-year project focuses on the sustainable recovery, re-processing, and reuse of rare-earth magnets.  With global expertise on magnets and magnetic assemblies, Bunting is […]

Magnetics/Assemblies

Continental Transforms Powertrain Division into Vitesco Technologies in Response to High-Growth Momentum to Electrification

November 11, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Continental Transforms Powertrain Division into Vitesco Technologies in Response to High-Growth Momentum to Electrification

Responding to the momentum toward electrification in transportation markets, giant automotive supplier Continental is putting a new face on its powertrain division in the name of Vitesco Technologies. It will be home to an expanded line of […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Thyssenkrupp to Buy Rare Earths from Northern Minerals in Australia While Helping to Expand the Operation; Key Separation Testing by K-Tech

November 7, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Thyssenkrupp to Buy Rare Earths from Northern Minerals in Australia While Helping to Expand the Operation; Key Separation Testing by K-Tech

Northern Minerals Ltd, one of the few producers of rare earth minerals outside China, and steel company Thyssenkrupp have made an offtake agreement whereby Thyssenkrupp will purchase 100% of the output from Northern’s Browns Range Pilot Plant […]

Electromagnetics

Revolutionary Ferrite-Magnet Fault Current Limiter Graduates from Testing and Heads to Market; Eriez Magnetics Takes Major Position in the Developer, FaultCurrent Ltd in UK

November 6, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Revolutionary Ferrite-Magnet Fault Current Limiter Graduates from Testing and Heads to Market; Eriez Magnetics Takes Major Position in the Developer, FaultCurrent Ltd in UK

FaultCurrent Limited, a UK-based developer of passive magnetic fault current limiters, is reporting successful results from a recent round of independent tests of its next generation fault current limiter. With 25 tons of magnetic ferrite ceramic tiles at the core of its novel design, it’s a beast. It […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Urban Mining Progresses in Pioneering Effort to Scale Up Rare-Earth Magnet Production from Recycled Magnets

October 16, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Urban Mining Progresses in Pioneering Effort to Scale Up Rare-Earth Magnet Production from Recycled Magnets

Freshly arisen from the flat, arid countryside of central Texas, a modern 130,000 square foot industrial facility is taking shape that the leaders and investors of Urban Mining Co. are eager to blossom into a […]