Bunting Magnetics Co. celebrated its 60th anniversary as a company on August 3, 2019. Bunting is an industry leader in the design, manufacture and sales of cutting edge magnetic equipment used in applications such as magnetic separation, metal detection, conveyor systems, and magnetic printing cylinders. The main industries the company serves include the recycling, food and pharmaceutical industries, plastics, mining, printing, manufacturing, automotive, chemical, ceramics, textiles and more.
Founded in 1959 by Walter F. Bunting in Chicago, Illinois, the company has remained family owned and operated ever since. Walter’s son, Bob Bunting, serves as the current president of the company, and Bob’s son, Robert Bunting Jr., serves as the general manager of the magnet materials division. Both father and son expressed great enthusiasm for the 60th anniversary of the company.
Currently, Bunting Magnetics Co. is headquartered in Newton, Kansas with manufacturing and distribution facilities in Berkhamsted, England; DuBois, Pennsylvania; Elk Grove Village, Illinois; Newton, Kansas; and Redditch, England.
Bunting Magnetics Co. products address unique challenges across a variety of different industries. In the metal recycling industry, the stainless steel separation conveyor has been designed to separate very slightly magnetized particles of stainless steel scrap, providing for higher purity separation of metals and increased profit. For plastics companies, Bunting Magnetics Co. worked to develop the FF350 high temp drawer magnet, which allows for metal separation in extremely high temperature plastics manufacturing.
Bunting equipment allows customers to overcome conditions that would otherwise prevent them from achieving the highest level of quality in their operations.
Published in the August 2019 Edition