Could This Be The Future of Rare-Earth Magnets?

Science is pretty amazing. Take, for example, a recent development whereas researchers at the Tohoku University in Japan did something amazing: they built an artificial, rare-earth magnet in just ten days. Their magnetic object is a rare-earth free FeNi magnet with high levels of iron and nickel– magnet material that is otherwise typically found in… Read more »

Keep Your Workplace Clean With a Magnetic Sweeper

If you work for or own a company that handles metal parts, you know it can be hard to keep the place clean. You could try to sweep up the nails, bolts and other debris that has fallen on the floor, but that doesn’t always do the trick. However, what if there was equipment available… Read more »

Rare Earth Magnets Benefit Businesses in Many Industries

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you know that we talk a lot about our own products, the magnet industry in general, and the state of manufacturing in the United States. Concerning magnets, they play a really big role in manufacturing across different industries. Rarely do we talk about the role magnets are… Read more »

How are Industrial Magnets Made? [Video]

Magnets are all around us, and they’re made using metal and electricity. As you know, magnets come in many different shapes and sizes. Making magnets involves using a particular sized/shaped mold which gets put into a machine that fills it with sand. Gases are added into the sand to harden it. The hard sand slab… Read more »

New Ways of Recycling Rare Earth Magnets

Rare earth magnets are the strongest type of permanent magnets made on the planet today as they are made from alloys of rare earth metals. They’re aptly named because they’re hard to come by—they are rare! The rare metals have to be mined and purified and that costs a lot of time, money, and energy…. Read more »

There Are Few Limits to What You Can Do With Industrial Magnets

Industrial magnets have many uses. One of the more recent developments in using magnet technology to make people’s lives easier involves something called the “MagBak Case.” Thanks to a successful crowd-sourced funding run on Kickstarter, where everyday people financially back projects they believe in to make them a reality, the MagBak Case is an iPhone… Read more »

How Magnets Are Used in Industrial Applications

Magnets have many practical uses in industrial applications. Available in a diverse range of shapes, sizes and strengths, and typically made of ferrite, neodymium or other magnetic materials, magnets help facilitate production in the automobile, electronics, plastics, glass and ceramics, shipping, construction, mining, food and pharmaceuticals industries. Typically, you’ll find industrial magnets at work in/on… Read more »

Crossbelt Magnets Can Be Great Additions For Conveyor Systems

There’s no doubt that the conveyor system is one of the most important and influential inventions of the industrial era. It gives us the ability to create a constant flow of material from one location to the next. As with any great invention, conveyor systems have also led to some new, unforeseen problems that need… Read more »