A Minnesota-based company has opened its commercial pilot plant to ramp up rare earth-free permanent magnet production. Niron Magnets’ facility in Minneapolis will produce sustainable ...

Rare earth elements are widely used in electronics such as mobile telephone handsets. The use of rare earth magnets has made it possible to produce ever-smaller components for these. Another example ...

A magnet factory would help Britain, hosting the COP26 U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, meet its goal of banning petrol and diesel cars by 2030 and slashing carbon emissions to net zero by ...

China has stopped shipping some heavy rare earth metals and magnets critical to US production of everything from cellphones to fighter jets as Beijing’s trade war with Washington simmers ...

This combination of properties makes rare-earth magnets hard to beat. One alternative, says Dr Lewis, is to switch rare-earth elements for others that are chemically at least somewhat similar.

Factory robots depend on rare earth magnets, too. “This is America’s, and the world’s, Achilles’ heel, which China continuously exploits,” said Nazak Nikakhtar, ...

The category of rare earth elements is the third most important critical raw material when it comes to imports of products containing critical raw materials (after aluminium and copper). However, on ...

However, constrained by an expected under-supply from 2022 onward, Adamas forecasts global shortages of rare earths used in the magnets will reach 48,000 tonnes annually by 2030, enough to make 25 ...

LONDON, April 19 (Reuters) - German auto parts supplier Schaeffler (SHA_p.DE), opens new tab has signed a raw materials deal to ensure the supply of rare earth magnets from Europe for its ...

July 7 (Reuters) - Neo Performance Materials (NEO.TO), opens new tab said on Friday it has started construction of a manufacturing facility in Europe to produce rare earth permanent magnets, which ...