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Adams helps set and maintain technical standards for magnet materials

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Mike Devine, Senior Applications Engineer at Adams, serves on ASTM International’s A06 Committee on Magnetic Materials. Why is this important, and how does it help ensure our magnets are exceptional? Well… ASTM International creates worldwide technical standards that are used to certify materials and structures are safe for the public. If a customer orders material

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Costly Cobalt

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by Mike Devine For a variety of reasons, one of the materials that goes into permanent magnets has been getting much more expensive lately. It is not one of the rare earth that made headlines a few years ago for price spikes. It isn’t even sourced from China. The material is Cobalt, a strong magnetic

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How did Mars lose its magnetism?

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Mars is the only major planet in our solar system that doesn’t have a planet-wide magnetic field. Given the planet’s proximity and similarity to Earth, the lack of a protective magnetic field has ignited the curiosity of scientists. Now a scientist has come up with an interesting explanation. Read more here: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wate-may-have-killed-mars-magnetic-field.

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New Catalog, Hot off the Press!

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We are delighted to share our 2018 catalog with you! What’s new in this edition? So many things! Here are just a few: Updated flexible magnet coverage: We’ve added MAGbond Magnetic Media System overview, and included our new high energy wide-format magnetic sheet (40” wide and still printable!). Low profile neo channel assemblies: At customers’

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Toyota’s New Neo

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(February, 2018) Kudos to Toyota for its development of the first Heat Resistant Neodymium Iron Boron magnets that: 1) Avoids the use of expensive heavy rare earth elements such as Dysprosium and Terbium; and 2) Substitutes less expensive Cerium and Lanthanum for Neodymium via an innovative process so there is minimal decrease in performance. The

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Common Magnets Found In The Home | Adams Magnetic Products

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Adams features two types of flexible magnetic materials in our magnet strip: Standard Energy and High Energy and they come in standard thicknesses. We are often asked how much holding power each material can produce so we created this table as a guide. It is based on ideal conditions and should only be used as

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Infographic: Don’t look now but… You’re surrounded by magnets

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Usually, you won’t see them, but they’re there inside the devices you use every day. They get you to work and back home, keep you in touch with friends worldwide, and make your life easier in a thousand different ways. We’re talking about magnets, of course. Ask most people to list any magnets in their

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Spinal Tap and the World’s Strongest Magnet

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For years, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Florida could lay claim to having built the world’s strongest magnet. And then someone built a stronger one. Florida’s response? Challenge accepted. Did they succeed? Read this article from The Associated Press for the full story, and how the film “This is Spinal Tap” influenced the

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Atoms Magnetic: Solving Permanent Magnet Supply Issues?

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Interesting news out of Duke University, where new magnets are now being built in a laboratory, atom by atom. While production on a mass scale at a reasonable cost is still many years away, this could be the first step toward a magnet creation process that would be more immune to severe market disruption. The

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5 Time & Money Saving Tips for Changing Up your Seasonal Displays

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Tis’ the season for holiday display changes, new themed signage and Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas is You” playing on a constant loop. Not to mention the never-ending nightmare of screwdrivers, nails, glue, and paint. There are some visual merchandising pros among us with all the time and resources to spend weeks on

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