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Background: The First Wave of Controls In April 2025, MOFCOM and the General Administration of Customs issued Announcement No. 18, placing export-license requirements on seven medium- and heavy-rare-earth elements: Samarium, Gadolinium, Terbium, Dysprosium, Lutetium, Scandium, and Yttrium, along with alloys, oxides, and magnets that contain them. While this was not a full export ban, the…
The rare earth magnet market is under extraordinary pressure, and the cause is not just tariffs. On April 4, 2025, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) issued new export restrictions (Announcement No. 18), requiring licenses for several key rare earth elements including samarium, dysprosium, terbium, and neodymium. While these are not outright bans, the licensing system…
Does your project require a custom DFARS-compliant neodymium-iron-boron solution? Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) neodymium material is a common requirement for magnetic components used in defense articles. It serves as a supply chain control to prevent Department of Defense contacted suppliers from sourcing sensitive materials from non-allied foreign nations which currently include China, North…
If you are in the electronics industry or manufacture electrical products, you may be aware of RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive), as it affects your ability to sell directly or indirectly to the European Economic Area (EEA). Likewise, Dura Magnetics is very familiar with supplying to customers that require RoHS Compliance for their magnet…
Why did rare earth magnet prices increase in 2021 and 2022? A variety of factors can affect rare earth magnet production costs causing price fluctuations. A combination of factors, including China’s climate-related policies, surging energy demands, and the COVID-19 pandemic, has created volatility in the production costs of rare earth magnets. The past several years…
In December 2021, automaker General Motors announced “strategic collaborations” that will support its move toward domestic sourcing of the rare earth magnet materials necessary for production in its upcoming fleet of electric vehicles. The announcement is another in a growing number of strategic moves by U.S. companies and the federal government to attempt to compete…
Dura Magnetics is taking a lead in sustainability At Dura Magnetics, our advanced manufacturing processes design and fabricate a variety of magnetic solutions, including a wide array of custom magnetic assemblies incorporating Neodymium, Samarium Cobalt, Alnico, and Ceramic magnet materials. By their very nature, many of these processes are highly energy dependent. Echoing an October…
Several factors can cause a permanent magnet to lose some or all its magnetic field, an occurrence of which can have adverse effects on your application. Learn how a permanent magnet can become demagnetized, how demagnetization works, and what physical conditions to preserve or avoid in order to maintain the desired magnetization in your permanent…
When a global medical device manufacturer needed to take a magnetic sensor from concept to production, it turned to our team at Dura Magnetics to develop a solution. Patient Critical Characteristics Seeking to develop a robotic surgical device for use in patient care applications, our customer required an array comprised of small permanent magnets for…
Customers in a wide variety of industries choose neodymium because of its incredible strength, even at small sizes. Its superior strength to size ratio is what makes this rare earth magnet material appealing for a variety of applications, from mobile phones to MRI scanners. The flip side of this strength is brittleness, which can cause…