Luxury Auto Maker Bentley Goes After Magnet Materials & Manufacturing Advancements Iconic luxury car maker Bentley Motors is pursuing two projects in the magnetics supply chain to support its commitment toward automobile electrification. One aims to use recycled magnets to produce auxiliary motors for cars, the other to develop an e-powertrain without dependence on rare [...]
UMC Recycle Rare Earth Magnets A Texas-based company recycles neodymium-based magnets to make new ones. Urban Mining Company (UMC), USA, has made a new process for reclaiming magnets containing rare earth metals to produce new, higher performance neodymium iron boron (Nd2Fe14B)-type sintered magnets. The methodology offers a practical way to reuse the minerals that are [...]
Progress in Recycling of Sintered NdFeB Magnet Wastes Significant efforts have been put into the recycling of bulk sintered NdFeB magnet wastes around the world in the past decade because bulk Nd–Fe–B sintered magnet wastes are valuable secondary rare-earth resources. There are two major facts behind the efforts. First, the waste magnets contain total rare-earth [...]
Recycling of Additively Printed Rare-earth Bonded Magnets In this work, we describe an efficient and environmentally benign method of recycling of additive printed Nd−Fe−B polymer bonded magnets. Rapid pulverization of bonded magnets into composite powder containing Nd-Fe-B particles and polymer binder was achieved by milling at cryogenic temperatures. The recycled bonded magnets fabricated by warm [...]
