Bunting Magnetics Review of Southern Manufacturing 2017

Bunting at Southern Manufacturing 2017

Southern Manufacturing 2017 News and Views The 2017 Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Show held at FIVE in Farnborough, UK (21st to 23rd March) proved to be a great place to showcase Magnets, Magnetic Assemblies, and Magnetic Separators. The 2017 Show was of a similar size to 2016 with a good number of visitors.  One of…

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Offshore Winch Eddy Current Brake with Magnetic Powers

Magnet Assembly

Bunting’s magnet product design team were contacted and asked to manufacture a Magnet Assembly that would act as an emergency eddy current brake on an offshore winch. The original design called up bespoke Neodymium Rare Earth Magnets with a strength of 50MGOe (MegaGauss oersted).  Such an assembly had an ten-week lead time, which was too…

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Magnets Vital for Recycling

The strength of magnets

Magnets play a fundamental role in recycling and waste management.  They enable the recovery or removal of metals such as steel and aluminium.  And this is not a recent phenomenon.  Magnets have been used in recycling for centuries.  Certainly, modern day electro and permanent magnets have been a common feature of many recycling plants since…

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Magnetically Fanning Sheet Metal but How?

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Handling and prying apart ferrous metal sheets can be difficult especially if they are oily or polished.  The Metal Sheet Fanner uses magnetic forces to induce a magnetic field into the ferrous metal sheets, creating magnetic poles that then repel each other.  This then causes the end of the metal sheets to ‘fan’, enabling fabricators…

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How do we get young people interested in manufacturing?

UK Manufacturing & Engineering Industry Sadly, manufacturing and engineering in the UK is not regarded as being ‘sexy’ or ‘exciting’ by young people at school and, as a result, many do not even consider a career in the sector.  The media tends to be full of news regarding the service sectors and manufacturing only tends…

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