The Recent Developments of Global Rare-earth Permanent Magnet Industry

Magnetic materials,especlally the permanent mag nets are one the most important materials,based on which the modern Information society is built. Now one can say that the level of economic develop- ment for each country can be seen from her annual out pat of permanent magnets,and her living level can be estimated by her needs of permanent magets. The recent developments of the world wild industry of rare-earth permanent magnets is described in this paper.