en.Wedoany.com Reported - Arnold Magnetic Technologies has signed strategic supply agreements with Less Common Metals (LCM) and Solvay to establish a secure, non-China supply chain for high-performance rare earth permanent magnets. The collaboration integrates the core expertise of the three companies: Solvay's plant in La Rochelle, France, refines rare earth raw materials, supplying key materials such as samarium oxide, neodymium-praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium; LCM converts the oxides into specialty metal alloys; and Arnold ultimately manufactures high-precision permanent magnets.

Arnold, an industrial magnet manufacturing company headquartered in Rochester, New York, USA, with over 130 years of operational history, has technology centers and production bases in the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Thailand, and China. The company announced plans to expand production capacity at its factory in Chonburi Province, Thailand, through a multi-million dollar investment to enhance its global manufacturing footprint, doubling total magnet production capacity.

In the current global trade environment, Arnold has differentiated its China operations: the Shenzhen factory continues to serve global industrial customers; for sensitive sectors such as Western aerospace and defense, the raw materials and production lines for high-performance magnets like samarium-cobalt have been fully transferred to factories in Switzerland and Thailand under the tripartite agreement.

This collaboration establishes a complete "mine-to-magnet" supply chain independent of traditional channels, holding significant strategic importance for securing the supply of high-performance permanent magnets for critical Western industries.