Metal Magnetic Powder Core Market Definition
Metal magnetic powder cores are made from soft-magnetic metallic powders, primarily iron, and its alloys mixed with nickel, molybdenum, and silicon held in a binder material. The powder mixture is pressed to create shapes, resulting in low permeability and soft saturation behavior. Powder cores are versatile, with variations in powder composition, grain size, and particle density allowing for a wide range of permeability, all properties lending themselves to various electromagnetic applications.
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The metal magnetic powder cores market is segmented into molypermalloy powder core, sendust, high flux, iron-silicon, and others. These cores have photovoltaics and energy storage applications, electric vehicles and charging piles, household appliances, UPS, telecommunication, and others. Several large companies such as POCO Magnetic, ZheJiang NBTM KeDa (KDM), CSC (Changsung Corp.), MAGNETICS, Micrometals, Proterial, Ltd. (Formerly Hitachi Metals), Dongbu Electronic Materials, Samwha Electronics, Qingdao Yunlu Advanced Materials, TDG, DMEGC, CMSS Technology, Nanjing New Conda Magnetic, Sinomag Technology, and Amogreentech are stakeholders in the industry.
Additional Information
The growth in the metal magnetic powder cores market can be attributed to increased demand in the automotive and manufacturing sectors. They are commonly used to run inductor applications such as switched-mode power supply output filters (DC inductors), differential inductors, boost inductors, buck inductors, and flyback transformers. Despite their use in inductors, they are not commonly used in pulse transformers due to the extensive power loss generated in the iron cores. The increasing demand for electric and hybrid vehicles is set to drive growth in the market during the coming years.
