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Gareth Hatch - who has written 69 posts on Terra Magnetica.
Gareth is a Founding Principal at Technology Metals Research, LLC. He has expertise in a variety of magnetic materials, devices and applications, and their associated trends and challenges, particularly for renewable energy production. For more information check out his biography page. Don't forget to check out Terra Magnetica at Twitter too.
Permanent Magnets 2010-2020 Report Now Available Through Terra Magnetica
In late 2010, three seasoned industry professionals, with a combined experience in the permanent-magnet sector of almost 100 years, published the industry’s most comprehensive reference and resource report in a generation. Compiled by Walt Benecki, Terry Clagett & Stanley Trout, the 400-page “Permanent Magnets 2010-2020” report is, according to the authors, “a professionally bound book, designed to [...]
Continue reading...Dr. Stan Trout Appointed As Director Of Magnet Manufacturing For Molycorp
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Earlier today, Molycorp announced that Dr. Stanley Trout will join the company as its Director of Magnet Manufacturing, effective October 1, 2010. Stan has been a successful consultant in the magnet industry for the past ten years, under the banner of his Spontaneous Materials consulting business. He previously worked for a number of magnet companies in the [...]
Continue reading...GE Global Research Receives $2.2 Million Grant For Permanent Magnet Research
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Late last week the US Department of Energy [DoE] awarded $9.6 million in grants for six Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy [ARPA-E] projects as a means to “accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies, increase America’s competitiveness and create jobs”. Notable among the grants was a $2.25 million grant to GE Global Research, of Niskayuna, NY, for [...]
Continue reading...Europe Beckons: The Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Workshop in Slovenia
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Later this week I’ll be flying out to Europe, ahead of the 21st International Workshop on Rare Earth Permanent Magnets and their Applications – also known as REPM’10 or simply “The Workshop” within the magnet industry. This Workshop will be held on the shores of the picturesque Lake Bled in Slovenia, and is the latest in [...]
Continue reading...40th Correlated Magnetics Patent Allowed By United States Patent Office
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Huntsville, AL – August 4, 2010 – Correlated Magnetics Research (CMR) is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has continued to allow CMR patent claims at a remarkable pace. Since late January, CMR has had 40 patents allowed of which 13 have already issued, with an average time to [...]
Continue reading...Siemens Launches Permanent Magnet-Based Gearless Wind Turbine
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Progress in the development of commercially-viable direct drive wind turbines took a significant step forward last week, with the official launch by Siemens Energy of its SWT-3.0-101 wind turbine. This turbine has a faceplate rating of 3 MW, has no gearbox and uses a permanent magnet generator to produce electricity. What’s really interesting about this system [...]
Continue reading...Recent Developments in Permanent Magnet Gear Systems & Machines
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Last month I attended the Magnetics 2010 Conference in Florida, where a variety of speakers gave updates on the business and technical side of the magnetics industry. One of these days I’ll actually write up my thoughts on the conference itself, probably in conjunction with my RareMetalBlog parter in crime, Ian London. In the meantime, [...]
Continue reading...The Concerted European Action On Magnets: A Model For Facing The Rare Earths Challenge?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
In 1984, the magnetic materials research community in Europe was at a formidable crossroads. The latter part of 1983 had seen industrial research groups in the USA and Japan simultaneously announce the discovery of a promising new permanent magnet material, based on the neodymium-iron-boron [Nd-Fe-B] alloy system. This long-sought successor to the ever more expensive [...]
Continue reading...Magnetic Tape Gets A Boost
Monday, January 25, 2010
Earlier this week, MIT’s Technology Review published a story on a new magnetic tape material which, combined with a novel tape-reading technology, can produce data storage capacities of 35 Tb per cartridge – over 40 times higher than current tape storage systems. The research was conducted at IBM’S Zurich Research Labs in Switzerland, in conjunction [...]
Continue reading...More News On Correlated Magnetics
Thursday, January 14, 2010
You may recall an article I wrote late last year on Correlated Magnetics Research, a company from Alabama who has created and produced what they were calling “programmable” magnets. Since then, I’ve had the chance to play with a number of their prototypes. I had initially been a little confused as to what the technology [...]
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
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