Materials/Manufacturing

Aisin Develops Ultrahigh-Efficiency Motor Using Soft Magnetic Alloy from Tohoku Magnet Institute 

Aisin Corporation has developed an ultrahigh-efficiency motor jointly with Tohoku Magnet Institute using TMI’s newly developed nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloy, Nanomet. Aisin invested in TMI in June of last year and a prototype of the motor was exhibited at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2023, held recently in Yokohama. Both firms are based in Japan, and each contributed their technical capabilities to the development. TMI is an R&D spinout from Tohoku University where the alloy was invented.  […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Rembrandtin Develops Chromium-Free Coating for Electrical Steel

Austrian industrial coatings company Rembrandtin has developed what it says is the world’s first chromium-free electrostrip coating for grain-oriented electrical steel used in distribution transformers, meeting a key requirement in upcoming environmental regulations.  A one-component system that shows very good electro-insulating […]