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34th Ewing Event: The Road to Fusion
Matthew Swallow, Bunting’s Technical Products Manager and Vice Chair of the UK Magnetics Society, reports on the society’s 34th Ewing Event held at the University of York in the UK in December 2022 and sponsored by Bunting. The 2022 Ewing Event was entitled ‘The Road to Fusion’ and looked at the magnetic technologies involved in…
Read MoreMatthew Swallow Elected UK Magnetics Society Vice Chair
Matthew Swallow, Bunting’s Technical Product Manager, has been elected Vice Chair of the UK Magnetics Society. Matthew was first elected as a committee member in 2018 and joins new Chair Ellie Galanis from Paragraf Ltd on the new executive committee. The UK Magnetics Society supports magnetics professionals in all fields or countries. The international membership…
Read MoreSupplying Magnets To NASA
Bunting is thrilled to have been selected as the supplier of high specification grain boundary diffused Neodymium Iron Boron (NdFeB) Magnets for a NASA project. Grain Boundary Diffused Magnets Grain Boundary Diffusion (GBD) technology enables the heavy rare earth element Dysprosium to diffuse from the surface of a grain around all of the grains boundaries. Dysprosium…
Read MoreHYPED Hyperloop Team Sponsored by Bunting
Supporting The Advancement of Hyperloop Technology Bunting is sponsoring the HYPED Hyperloop team from the University of Edinburgh. The team is dedicated to accelerating the development of Hyperloop and implementing technology in the UK. They will also be competing in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in the Summer of 2019. What Is A Hyperloop? A…
Read More2018 Review of Magnet News and Blogs
Technical Articles on Magnets and Assemblies 2018 2018 has been another exciting year for eMagnets and Bunting Magnetics. Magnetic technology has never been more important. Advances in environmental technology such as electric vehicles and wind turbines would not be possible without the simple magnet. Throughout the year we reviewed some really novel and inspiring ways…
Read MoreThe Future Is Magnetic
A Review of the UK Magnetics Society’s Ewing Event 2018 This year’s 31st Ewing Event, organised by the UK Magnetics Society and sponsored by Bunting Magnetics, focused on the important role of ‘magnets’ in the future. Indeed, it is widely recognised that magnetic fields are the ideal, low-energy way for creating motion. At the event, there…
Read MoreOffices Would No Longer Function Without Magnets
Stating that an office would not be able to function without the presence of magnets is pretty bold. Immediately you are thinking that there are other ways to pin notices to white boards or neatly store paperclips. Important, maybe, but these are not critical to our daily life in work. So, if magnets were removed…
Read MoreA Compass Magnetically Shows The Way
Interaction Between A Compass and Earth’s Magnetic Field When a kid is given a compass for the first time, they almost become mesmerised by the way the needle spins around every time they move. No matter which way they go, the compass needle will always point in the same direction. The simple compass was invented…
Read MoreWhy Are Strong Magnets Called Rare Earth?
The first ‘Rare Earth’ Magnet was developed in the 1960s based on work done by Karl Strnat and Alden Rey at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the University of Dayton. The development of the Samarium–Cobalt Magnet (made of an alloy of samarium and cobalt SmCo) was a major advancement in magnet technology. For the first…
Read MoreMagnetically Balancing Coins
Even Doctor Who would have been impressed by this balancing act. Four normal UK coins (5-pence, 1-pence, 10-pence and 2-pence) were balanced end-on-end on the rim of a Doctor Who TARDIS mug. Pretty impressive. This photograph is as taken. There has been no post-processing of the photo to add in the coins. These four coins…
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