At the end of May, magnet manufacturer Goudsmit Magnetics introduced a completely new corporate identity. This change takes place in the year that Goudsmit celebrates its 60th jubilee, which seemed the perfect occasion to adopt a streamlined, more contemporary look.

At the Maintenance Next trade fair in Rotterdam, Goudsmit Magnetics of Waalre will give a demonstration of a demagnetization process at Stand 2414. The consequences of undesired magnetism can be very costly. Contaminating chips or punched parts sticking to a die are undesirable; they interrupt production, which costs time and money. Not being able to weld an oil pipeline can shut down entire industries. For this problem,

At the Powtech in Nuremberg, Germany, stand 1-416, Goudsmit will show an automatically cleanable ‘Easy Clean’ magnetic separator. This is used to remove metal particles (>30 µm) from powders in the food, chemical, ceramic, plastics and other industries. The Easy Cleanflow magnet is notable for its high magnetic flux density of

Take a big handful of large nails and drop them into a box that they should just be able to fit in. This gives you a picture of the problem faced by many manufacturers of this type of product: efficient packaging. Nails, bolts and other long metal products that are simply dropped into a box take up approximately 30 to 40% more space than when the same products are neatly lined up like in a box of matches. Carefully packaged products yield volume gains and are presented more attractively.