The panel discussion was attended by Konstantin Fedorov, Deputy Director of the Metallurgy and Materials Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Andrey Andrianov, Director General of Rusatom Metal Tech LLC, Dmitry Ivanets, Deputy Director for Technological Development of Rosatom State Corporation, Sergey Salikhov, the First Vice-Rector of the MISIS National University of Science and Technology, Alexey Dub, the First Deputy Director General of Science and Innovations Private Institution, as well as Vladimir Kruzhaev, the First Deputy Vice-Rector for Science at the Ural Federal University.
Experts and market participants discussed the strategic goals and competitiveness of the magnetic industry, new technologies for the production of rare-earth magnets and their applications, as well as the provision of professional personnel to the new industry. Permanent magnets are complex science-intensive products that ensure the development of a wide range of high-tech areas from nuclear and wind energy to electric transport and medicine. A critical condition for achieving technological sovereignty is the formation of production chains in Russia from raw materials to finished products and from scientific developments to mass production.
Rosatom is implementing a project to create a large-scale production of permanent rare-earth magnets based on the neodymium-iron-boron system, which is managed by Rusatom Metal Tech LLC (an integrator company in the field of Metallurgy of the Rosatom's Fuel Division).
"The Russian market demands are the main motivation to create large-scale production of rare-earth magnets based on the neodymium-iron-boron system with a capacity of 1,000 tons by 2028. But this volume is not final for us. We believe that this is only the first step, and at the next stage we plan to expand production to 3,000 tons by 2030. This will be a high-tech production based on domestic raw materials that will almost completely cover the needs of key Russian industries in these products," said Andrey Andrianov, Director General of Rusatom Metal Tech LLC.
Dmitry Ivanets, Deputy Director for Technological Development of Rosatom State Corporation, stressed that technologies for the production of high-energy rare-earth magnets can make it possible to obtain complete and uninterrupted provision of high-tech enterprises with high-quality magnetic products. "The creation of separation facilities in Russia for separating rare-earth elements of the magnetic group from collective concentrates, the creation of industries in the field of wind energy, electric transport, aviation, medical equipment and other high-tech areas that can provide large-capacity solvent demand for magnets will become the main drivers for the creation and development of magnetic plants in our country," noted Dmitry Ivanets.
The development of the magnetic industry is also facilitated by state support for technological sovereignty projects.
"To cover the needs of the national industry in critical types of products and raw materials of rare and rare-earth metals, the Metallurgy and Materials Department is forming a Federal Project "Development of the Industry of Rare and Rare-Earth Metals". It is aimed at reducing the level of import dependence and recreating cooperative production chains from raw materials to finished products of rare and rare-earth metals. One of the key projects in this area is being implemented by Rusatom Metal Tech LLC. This year the company signed a special investment contract to create a production of magnets from neodymium," said Konstantin Fedorov, Deputy Director of the Metallurgy and Materials Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia.
Science representatives stressed the need to accelerate the development and introduction of innovative solutions into production, as well as the development of an appropriate scientific and technical base. "We have already moved from scientific experiments to specific applied outcomes in record time. In just two years, the results have been obtained, allowing us to start creation of production facilities based on Russian technologies," commented Alexey Dub, the First Deputy Director General of Science and Innovations Private Institution (Rosatom's Scientific Division).
Special attention at the round-table conference was paid to the topic of providing a new industry with professional personnel.
Following up on the discussion on the development of the magnetic industry held on September 25-27, 2024 at the Suzdal Arena Sports Complex (Suzdal of the Vladimir region), Rosatom's Fuel Division will hold the First All-Russian Scientific and Technical Conference "Permanent Magnets: Science and Technologies. Production. Application". Details are available on the conference website:
https://magnetconf.ru/
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Since 2020, Rosatom has been engaged in phased localization of production of permanent rare-earth magnets based on the neodymium-iron-boron system in the Fuel Division. The first REM magnets produced by Elemash Magnet LLC (part of Rosatom's Fuel Division) were supplied to Rosatoms wind power division, JSC NovaWind, for power generators at the Karmalinovskaya Wind Power Plant in Stavropolsky region. Currently, Russia has all the necessary resources to create a production chain for REM magnets. In particular, the Rosatom State Corporation has competencies in all key areas, including: extraction of raw materials (projects of the Mining Division); research base (institutes of Science and Innovations JSC); as well as the existing and future production facilities of the Fuel Division. Additionally, the stability of the vertical chain is ensured by cooperation with the leaders of the rare metals industry, in particular, the Solikamsk Magnesium Plant.
