[Adric] was pretty sure that the Quelab hackerspace laser wasn’t powerful enough to cut or etch a nickel-plated neodymium magnet. However, they suspected it would have just enough power to heat ...

The neodymium magnet now accounts for 95% of permanent ... resulting in significant waste during the cutting process. “Up to half of the magnet is turned into scrap and goes unused,” says ...

Rare-earth metals like neodymium have very high magnetic anisotropy ... and quenching steps before being hammered flat and cut into strips. The strips are put into a straining device and stretched ...

Niron Magnetics, which says it is the world’s only producer rare-earth-free permanent magnets, announced Thursday the opening ...

The University of Birmingham professor is a director in the firm Hypromag, which extracts and recycles neodymium magnets from used hard disks. Neodymium is a rare earth metal - chemical elements ...