Advanced materials · Japan

Proterial (formerly Hitachi Metals)

Owns the original NEOMAX sintered NdFeB magnet technology and patents, and makes ferrite magnets and amorphous and nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloys; taken private by a Bain Capital consortium in 2023.

Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan · East Asia
Value chain
Advanced materials(Inputs); also Components & subsystems
What that means
Supplies engineered solid materials: fibres and composites, alloys and powders, wafers and substrates, magnets, nanomaterials, ceramics, isotopes and battery materials.
Founded
1956
Ownership
Private
Website
proterial.com
Relevance
Very high at its strongest, in Superconducting, Magnetic & Photonic Materials

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  1. Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Manufacture · listed #2 of 50

    Owns the original NEOMAX sintered NdFeB magnet technology and patents, and makes ferrite magnets and amorphous and nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloys; taken private by a Bain Capital consortium in 2023.

    Relevance: Original NdFeB magnet technology owner

    Source · proterial.com