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“United We Stand: Strategies to Counter PRC Economic Coercion Against Democracies”

United States Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (Democrat of Illinois), Ranking Member, US House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, speaks at a hearing entitled “United We Stand: Strategies to Counter PRC Economic Coercion Against Democracies” in the Cannon House office building in Washington, DC, on Wednesday July 23, 2025. Rep Krishnamoorthi is showing items that contain rare earth exports in the form of magnets used in their circuitry. Photo by Mattie Neretin / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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“United We Stand: Strategies to Counter PRC Economic Coercion Against Democracies”

United States Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (Democrat of Illinois), Ranking Member, US House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, speaks at a hearing entitled “United We Stand: Strategies to Counter PRC Economic Coercion Against Democracies” in the Cannon House office building in Washington, DC, on Wednesday July 23, 2025. Rep Krishnamoorthi is showing items that contain rare earth exports in the form of magnets used in their circuitry. Photo by Mattie Neretin / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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9th China Advanced Materials Industry Expo 2024 in Qingdao

QINGDAO, CHINA - OCTOBER 12, 2024 - Visitors visit the booths of insoluble metals and rare earth permanent magnets at the 9th China Advanced Materials Industry Expo 2024 in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, Oct 12, 2024.

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Japanese wins European inventor award

Japanese inventor and materials scientist Masato Sagawa, who created the world's most powerful permanent magnets crucial for various high-tech applications, holds a trophy after winning the European Inventor Award for non-member countries of the European Patent Office. Sagawa is an adviser to Japanese specialty steel manufacturer Daido Steel Co. ==Kyodo

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Chinese online platform gains popularity with Cuban users

STORY: Chinese online platform gains popularity with Cuban users DATELINE: Aug. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:41 LOCATION: Havana CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a print shop 2. various of a grocery store STORYLINE: Daniel Lasso, who runs a print shop in the Havana district of El Vedado, has benefitted a lot from Nihao53, a Chinese online platform for wholesale trade that has become increasingly popular with Cuban users. With a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Havana, Lasso opened a family-run business five years ago. The 36-year-old regularly acquires products through the platform, including cups, glasses, key rings and magnets. He told Xinhua that access to the Chinese market helps keep his business running by securing a steady supply of products. "So far so good," he said. "We are buying products that are not available in the Cuban market. It helps expand our business and increase our earnings." Lasso's workmate Fidel Nunez said that the quality of Chinese products is u

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China rare earths exports to Japan stagnant

TOKYO, Japan - Undated combination file photo taken in Beijing shows chunks of chemically processed rare earths (top) and mini magnets made from the materials. Chinese exports to Japan of rare earths, used in hybrid cars, mobile phones and other high-tech products, have been stagnant since around Sept. 21, 2010.

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Court orders Hitachi Metals to increase reward for magnet patent

TOKYO, Japan - Former Hitachi Metals Ltd. researcher Masao Iwata (L) speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on April 27 after the Tokyo High Court ordered Hitachi Metals earlier in the day to increase remuneration for Iwata to 12.6 million yen for inventing a method to make permanent magnets. A lower court awarded 11.3 million yen against the researcher's demand of 89 million yen.

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Hitachi Metals, Sumitomo Special tie up in magnet production

TOKYO, June 20 Kyodo - Hitachi Metals Ltd. President Yoshihiro Honda (L), Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. President Hiroshi Shimozuma (C) and Sumitomo Special Metals Co. President Tetsuo Toizume (R) pose at a news conference in Tokyo on June 20 after concluding a tie-up agreement on production of permanent magnets used in such products as motors and electronic devices.

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CHINA-GANSU-MUSEUM-CULTURAL AND CREATIVE PRODUCT (CN)

(220514) -- LANZHOU, May 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on May 13, 2022 shows magnets featuring an ancient bronze horse statue at a store in Gansu Provincial Museum in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province. The bronze horse statue, popularly known as "Bronze Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow," was unearthed in 1960s from the Leitai Tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) in Wuwei County and is now preserved in the Gansu Provincial Museum. Its image became a symbol of Chinese tourism in 1983. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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ITALY-ROME-CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS-CULTURAL AND CREATIVE PRODUCT

(220514) -- ROME, May 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Magnets featuring "She-Wolf" are seen in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, Italy, May 13, 2022. One of the prestigious collections of the Capitoline Museums is the "She-Wolf", a masterpiece of bronze sculpture based on the legend that contributed the city's origin to the twins Romulus and Remus, who in their infancy had been saved and suckled by a wolf. (Xinhua/Jin Mamengni)

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ITALY-ROME-CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS-CULTURAL AND CREATIVE PRODUCT

(220514) -- ROME, May 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Magnets featuring "She-Wolf" are seen in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, Italy, May 13, 2022. One of the prestigious collections of the Capitoline Museums is the "She-Wolf", a masterpiece of bronze sculpture based on the legend that contributed the city's origin to the twins Romulus and Remus, who in their infancy had been saved and suckled by a wolf. (Xinhua/Jin Mamengni)

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BRITAIN-LONDON-BRITISH MUSEUM-CULTURAL AND CREATIVE PRODUCT

(220512) -- LONDON, May 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on May 11, 2022 shows the Lewis Chessmen magnets in the British Museum in London, Britain. The Lewis Chessmen are among the most popular collections in the British Museum. Discovered on the Isle of Lewis of Scotland in 1831, the medieval chess pieces were made of walrus ivory. (Xinhua/Li Ying)

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Piezo Sonic's PSM60N-ET ultrasonic motor. Motor (front) and driver (back)

Piezo Sonic (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo) has released a high-torque ultrasonic motor, the PSM60N. The ultrasonic motor rotates by minute vibrations and frictional force. Since it does not use coils and magnets, it can be used in high magnetic field environments such as magnetic resonance tomography (MRI) systems.The company's ultrasonic motor uses a piezoelectric element to vibrate a ring with a comb-shaped slit. When the rotor (rotating body) is brought into contact with the ring, the vibration of the teeth is transmitted to the rotor, which rotates. The comb tooth structure amplifies the vibration. We chose a material with high friction to increase the torque. The maximum torque is 1.2 Newton meters, which is 5 to 10 times higher than a DC motor of the same size. The motor is also equipped with an optical encoder. (Photo taken on December 4, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Testing a motor that does not use a permanent magnet.

Rizik and Taiyo Denki Engineering (Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki City) will jointly develop an electric two-wheeler equipped with a motor that does not use permanent magnets, with the aim of developing a prototype in July. Based on the results of the experiment, the company will make improvements and appeal the effectiveness of motors that do not use permanent magnets to the two-wheeled vehicle market. The system, which is based on Rizik's technology, regenerates the power generation energy stored in the coil to the power source when the current exceeds the set value in the power generation operation, and returns to the power generation operation when the coil current drops due to the regeneration operation to repeatedly maintain the power generation and regeneration operations. The company will supply the control unit, and Taiyo Denki Engineering will incorporate it into the motor and install it in the motorcycle. (Photo taken on May 27, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Schoolgirl gets patent for bin separating steel, aluminum cans

Japanese schoolgirl Asuka Kamiya, 12, stands beside a trash bin she invented in the central Japanese city of Anjo on Sept. 3, 2015. She obtained a patent for the bin that automatically separates steel and aluminum beverage cans with the help of magnets. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba Elevator devises maglev elevator

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corp. said on Jan. 17 it has developed a high-speed, comfortable elevator system (in handout photo) adopting the mechanism of magnetic levitation for the first time in the world. Unlike conventional elevators that go up and down on vertical guide rails, the newly developed elevator has magnets in place of wheels and moves without touching the rails. (Kyodo)

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China rare earths exports to Japan stagnant

TOKYO, Japan - Undated combination file photo taken in Beijing shows chunks of chemically processed rare earths (top) and mini magnets made from the materials. Chinese exports to Japan of rare earths, used in hybrid cars, mobile phones and other high-tech products, have been stagnant since around Sept. 21, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Court orders Hitachi Metals to increase reward for magnet patent

TOKYO, Japan - Former Hitachi Metals Ltd. researcher Masao Iwata (L) speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on April 27 after the Tokyo High Court ordered Hitachi Metals earlier in the day to increase remuneration for Iwata to 12.6 million yen for inventing a method to make permanent magnets. A lower court awarded 11.3 million yen against the researcher's demand of 89 million yen. (Kyodo)

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Hitachi Metals, Sumitomo Special tie up in magnet production

TOKYO, June 20 Kyodo - Hitachi Metals Ltd. President Yoshihiro Honda (L), Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. President Hiroshi Shimozuma (C) and Sumitomo Special Metals Co. President Tetsuo Toizume (R) pose at a news conference in Tokyo on June 20 after concluding a tie-up agreement on production of permanent magnets used in such products as motors and electronic devices. (Kyodo)