Polymagnet

MMM 2026, talk FC-09

Polymagnet at MMM 2026, Honolulu

The
Programmable
Magnet

What happens when a magnet's behavior becomes something you can print.

Tim Costello, CEO, Polymagnet

For 2,000 years, a magnet has done one thing.

Attract or repel. Its behavior is fixed by its shape and its two poles.

What if a magnet could be programmed?

One face, rewritten maxel by maxel.

Maxels: magnetic pixels.

A MagPrinter prints arrays of tiny polarized maxels into a single magnet. The pattern is the program.

From Correlated Magnetics Research, Huntsville, Alabama. 120+ patents.

Illustration of one MagPrinter pass. Each square is one maxel: north in red, south in blue.

Live demo. A simplified illustration.

Program the face.

Tap any maxel to flip its pole. Opposite poles facing each other attract; like poles repel. Hold is the net across every facing pair.

Magnet A face

Magnet B face

0%No real hold

Hold vs. offset, in rows. Solid: these two faces. Dashed: a conventional magnet.

One magnet. Behavior on command.

Precise and repeatable, because the behavior is printed in.

  • Latch

    Locks when the two patterns meet.

  • Align

    Pulls itself into one exact position.

  • Spring

    Pushes back with a force you design.

  • Hold

    Grips at a strength you specify.

Shipping commercially today, including through distribution partner Industrial Magnetics, Inc.

More function per gram.

Put the behavior in the printed pattern, and you need less rare-earth material per function.

ConventionalOne pole per face. Behavior comes from size and shape.
ProgrammedMany poles per face. Behavior comes from the pattern.

Illustrative, not to scale.

2025 made magnets strategic.

China imposes export controls on rare earths and rare-earth magnets.

MOFCOM Announcement 18

The controls expand. For the first time, they reach magnet-making equipment and technology.

The West needs a magnetics supply chain that does not run through China.

From a part to a platform.

We mapped 382 magnetics companies worldwide. The field is fragmented, and consolidation has started.

Arcline's DwyerOmega platform acquired Lake Shore Cryotronics.

AMETEK, Roper, Danaher, Halma, Spectris: the serial-acquirer model investors already reward.

Illustrative. Each dot is one of the 382 companies mapped.

Who's behind it

Tim Costello

CEO, Polymagnet. Principal Technologist, Built For the Future.

“Let me roll up your industry.”
  1. AutoGeneral MotorsHelped launch the EV1, the first modern electric car.
  2. SemiconductorsApplied MaterialsTransformed how the industry manufactures: craft to lean flow.
  3. HomebuildingBuilder HomesitePut rival builders on one platform: 1,300+ builders, who build 60%+ of U.S. homes.
  4. MagneticsPolymagnetCEO, now. Same playbook, new industry.

With Melissa Morman, CXO: experience, brand and go-to-market.

Find us at MMM 2026

FC-09

Day
Thursday, Nov 5
Time
3:36 PM HST
Room
Coral 1

71st Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Honolulu. Polymagnet and Correlated Magnetics Research are exhibiting. Come talk to us.

Bring us the problem an ordinary magnet can't solve.

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Two conversations we want: operators in fragmented industries, and capital partners for the magnetics roll-up.

Prepared for Tim Costello, CEO, Polymagnet.

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