UK: Bunting Magnetics is celebrating the 40th anniversary in October 2018 of the Master Magnets brand. The Birmingham-based magnetic separator and metal detector manufacturer produces equipment for the recycling, mining and mineral processing industrial sectors. Bunting Magnetics purchased the brand in early 2017.
Master Magnets was founded in 1978 by Geoff Worley, a qualified engineer with 15 years’ experience in the magnetics industry. The company grew in the 1980s and 1990s with an emphasis on the UK coal industry and global mineral processing projects. Later it built a reputation for building permanent overband magnets that are used for the continuous removal of tramp ferrous material from a product stream such as in recycling. The company then worked with recycling companies to develop a compact overband magnet that was better suited to this sector.
In 2003, Master Magnets acquired Integrated Recycling Systems and relocated to Redditch. Further acquisition took place in 2005 with the purchase of the metal detection business. This further expanded their manufacturing portfolio as customers were now able to purchase their metal separation and detection solution from one supplier.
Geoff Worley took partial retirement from the company and Adrian Coleman became general manager in 2008. Following the sale to Bunting Magnetics in 2017 Coleman stayed on as general manager.
