How NdFeB Magnets Are Made?
NdFeB Magnets have played an important role in industries and our everyday life thanks to their excellent chemical and physical properties. However, few people know how NdFeB Magnets are made. So in this article, we will take a look at the process of producing NdFeB Magnets. 
How NdFeB Magnets Are Made?
The Process of Producing NdFeB Magnets
1. Preparation and pretreatment of raw materials
The raw materials are pre-treated by weighing, crushing, cutting, and rust removal.
2. Melting
The pretreated raw materials, praseodymium and neodymium, pure iron, and iron boron are proportionally charged in proportion to the vacuum melting furnace, and the strip is carried out after high-temperature melting under the protection of argon. The product has a uniform composition, a high degree of crystallinity, good organization consistency, and avoids the formation of iron. 
How NdFeB Magnets Are Made?
3. Hydrogen explosion
Hydrogen explosion (HD) technology uses the hydrogen absorption characteristics of rare-earth intermetallic compounds to place Nd-Fe-B alloy in the hydrogen environment. Hydrogen is entered into the alloy by the thin layer of the neodymium-rich phase, cracking and breaking, and cracking along the neodymium-rich layer to ensure the integrity of the main phase grain and the interphase of the neodymium-rich grain. The HD process makes the NdFeB wafer lose, which greatly improves the pulverizing efficiency and reduces the production cost.
4. Pulverizing
The air-pulverized powder is crushed by the high-speed impact of the material itself, with no wear and tear to the inner wall of the grinding chamber, no pollution, and the powder can be produced efficiently.
5. Molding orientation
The role of orientation is to make the chaotic orientation of the c-axis of the particles in the magnetized direction move in the same direction, thereby obtaining the largest remanence. The main purpose of compression molding is to crush the powder into a certain shape and size and at the same time maintain the grain orientation degree as far as possible in the magnetic field orientation. For the special-shaped magnets, the special mold tooling is used directly. The sintered magnets only need a little surface treatment to be put into use, greatly saving the material and subsequent processing.
6. Sintering
Sintering is a series of physical and chemical changes in high temperatures, which is a simple and cheap way to change the microstructure of the material to improve the magnetic properties of the material. Sintering is the final forming process of materials, which has a very important effect on the density and microstructure of magnets.
7. Mechanical processing
After sintering, the NdFeB magnet is all blank and needs further mechanical processing to obtain products of various sizes and shapes. NdFeB magnets are brittle and have poor mechanical properties. They can only be used for grinding and cutting.
8. Surface treatment
Surface treatment of various rare earth permanent magnets. For example, electrophoretic, galvanized, nickel, and phosphating are needed, to ensure the appearance and corrosion resistance of the product.
9. Inspection and packaging of finished products
All kinds of magnetic properties, corrosion resistance, and high-temperature properties of the products are tested.
Conclusion
Thank you for reading our article and we hope it can help you to have a better understanding of how NdFeB magnets are made. If you want to know more about NdFeB magnets and other magnet products, we advise you to visit Stanford Magnets for more information. As one of the leading magnet suppliers across the world, Stanford Magnets has more than two decades’ of experience in manufacturing all kinds of magnet products. So we can provide customers with high-quality rare earth permanent magnetic products such as neodymium magnets, and other non-rare earth permanent magnets at a very competitive price.
