Stephanie Seay

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

This isotropic, neodymium-iron-boron bonded permanent magnet was 3-D-printed at DOE's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

3D Printed Magnets Outperform Conventional

The process not only conserves materials, but also produces complex shapes, requires no tooling and is faster than traditional injection methods.

Rare earth magnet assembly recovered from a used hard drive.

Rare Earth Mined from Used CPUs

This is what happens when demand goes up and more than 95 percent of worldwide production occurs outside the U.S.