January 2014

Jason has become the master of the industrial table saw that made it possible to build this Neodymium powder production lab chamber. The lab chamber has been built from scratch out of acrylic sheets. The Acrylic Production Lab Chamber has glove access and will operate in an argon...

Networking Lab Computers The Lab room in the N suite now has a dedicated PC (Jason's contribution) setup to work with measuring Microscope software and networked with the main office computer. All computers in every area is now able to network together....

Tom in the process of making more Teflon rings and improving with every new batch of blended powders. He has completed another steel mold for a disk version that will incorporate all four materials for a complete homogenous type segment....

Manufacturing Engineer. What Tom is working on next is a first Homogenous Segment Steel Mold version which will set the stage for next week's testing and pressing with all four powdered materials. The making of the steel molds was explored and developed last year. It involved extensive research in...

Here is a photo of Jason at the fabrication shop, working on an acrylic argon chamber for a dedicated Neodymium metal lab grinder. Once completed, it will enable SMI to produce it's own Neodymium powder economically with a Neodymium metal ingots supply on hand. The plan is to produce...

Magnets Employing Teflon? Using An SMI concept to blend both Magnetic and Teflon powder to form a unique magnet. "It seems we are the only company in the World making magnets, employing Teflon, to form Magnetic rings as shown." These are capabilities made possible by gradually gaining equipment (mostly used), integrating...