Materials/Manufacturing

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 […]

Magnetics/Assemblies

SMAC Commercializes Innovative High-Torque Robotics Motor with Halbach Magnetics Circuitry and Printed Coils

Using Halbach arrays of Neodymium magnets and printed coils, mechatronics developer SMAC is commercializing its innovative high torque brushless DC motors that it designed for robotics and electronics applications.  “The HT is a new revolutionary […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Neo Performance Materials Purchases Samag Magnet Manufacturing Facility near Shanghai; Reports Lower Revenues for First Half of 2019

Neo Performance Materials Inc. has acquired a magnet manufacturing plant near Shanghai for $9.7 million where it will produce compression molded magnets using its Magnequench Neodymium-Iron-Boron (NdFeB) powders. Separately, the company reports that it experienced an […]