The development of neodymium–iron–boron permanent magnets has allowed the miniaturization of motors and hard disk drives, drastically reducing the size of electronics that benefitted from ...

Noveon Magnetics Inc landed a deal to deliver 1,000 tons of magnets to Nidec Motor Corp. over five years. No terms were ...

January, a top United States materials company announced that it had started to manufacture rare earth magnets. It was important news—there are no large U.S. makers of the neodymium magnets that ...

And that’s not to mention the motors in electric vehicles and ... and it may soon be possible to build permanent magnets as strong as neodymium magnets, but without any rare earth metals.

The motor has six coils in the stator, with the rotor carrying eight neodymium magnets. It’s an axial flux design, with the rotor’s magnets sitting above the coils. This makes construction ...

The mining company’s Fort Worth, Texas, facility will make magnets and metals used in vehicles, drones, robotics and electronics.