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Magnet plant · China

Chinese NdFeB Magnet Cluster

The large majority of world sintered NdFeB magnet output.

ComponentMagnet plant

What happens here

Between separated oxide and a working motor sits magnet making: alloy strip casting, hydrogen decrepitation, jet milling, pressing in a magnetic field, sintering, machining and coating. Very little of that capacity exists outside China.

In and out

Goes in

Boron Dysprosium Iron Ore Neodymium Praseodymium Terbium

Comes out

Outputs for this site are not itemised in the atlas.

Journeys that pass through this plant

Australian rare earths to a magnet in a motor Mined in Australia, cracked in Malaysia, magnetised in China, and fitted in Germany.

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Rare Earths to Electric Motor

Seventeen near-identical elements, separated one at a time, ending as a magnet in a wheel.

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Chinese NdFeB Magnet Cluster

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Rare Earths to Electric Motor

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