What SGM Magnetics S.P.A. does

SGM Magnetics S.p.A. is an Italian industrial technology company founded in 1954 and headquartered in Manerbio (Brescia), Italy, that designs and manufactures two principal product lines: (1) industrial lifting magnets — including electromagnets (EM), fail-safe electropermanent magnets (EPR), custom pole-geometry systems, control panels, magnetic spreads/traverses, and remote control systems — for steel mills, foundries, steel service centers, ports, rail operators, and pipe/tube handlers; and (2) separation and recycling technologies — a broad portfolio spanning ballistic separators (SBS), densimetric tables (PDS), air classifiers (ACL), magnetic drums/pulleys/suspended separators, eddy current separators (ECS), and advanced sensor-based sorters including inductive sensors, color/shape/optical (CSS), X-ray (XRT, XRF-T), and LIBS (Cleansort R) units — applied to metal recycling, auto shredder residue (ASR), secondary aluminum/salt slag, MSW incineration ash (IBA), WEEE, glass, wood, coal, iron ore, and diamond processing.

The company generates revenue primarily through project-based, quotation-priced sales of customized engineered systems (one-time capital equipment), complemented by professional services including material testing, preventive maintenance, commissioning, training, and after-sales support. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales executed through wholly-owned subsidiaries (notably SGM Magnetics Corp. in Buffalo, NY) and a long-term global agent network, targeting named tier-1 customers such as ArcelorMittal, POSCO, Nucor, Thyssen Krupp, Gerdau, Ternium, Danieli, Marcegaglia, and AFV Beltrame in steel, alongside Dalmine, National Oilwell, and Swisslog in pipe/handling, and various rail operators. The firm is privately held, incorporated as an Italian S.p.A. with €750,000 share capital, and maintains active memberships in industry associations across Europe and North America (FEM, FIM, Federacciai, CRM, CMRA, ARI, IGMNIR, LEEA, Alfed, Federrec).

Name

SGM Magnetics S.P.A.

Legal name

SGM Magnetics S.p.A.

Website

https://sgmmagnetics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1954

Operating status

Operating

Short description

SGM Magnetics S.p.A., founded in 1954 in Italy, designs and manufactures industrial lifting magnets and a broad portfolio of metal separation and recycling technologies, serving global steel mills, recyclers, rail operators, and pipe-handling customers through direct sales and agent networks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Magnetic Separation and Lifting Equipment

NAICS

Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing (3311), Nonferrous Metal (except Aluminum) Smelting and Refining (33141), Iron Ore Mining (21221)

SIC

Construction, Mining & Materials Handling Machinery & Equip (3530), Metalworkg Machinery & Equipment (3540)

akta.pro primary industry

Transformers & Magnetics (Power/Signal) (HDAHANAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Physical Separation (Gravity, Magnetic & Electrostatic) (IMAKALAC), Metals Recovery & Sorting Facilities (Ferrous/Non-Ferrous) (EUAIADAG), Metals Recycling & Processing (Ferrous/Non-Ferrous) (BPALADAF), Iron Ore Beneficiation & Concentration (Crushing, Screening, Washing, Magnetic Separation) (IMAKAAAD)

Keywords

• Industrial lifting magnets
• Magnetic separation systems
• Metal recycling equipment
• Eddy current separators
• Steel material handling

Headquarters

HQ city

Manerbio

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Industrial Equipment Manufacturing: Design, manufacturing, and sale of high-value industrial magnetic separation and lifting equipment. Systems are customized for specific industrial applications and sold as complete turnkey solutions or individual components including magnets, spreaders, and control panels.
2. Services and After-Sales Support: Comprehensive service offerings including material testing, preventive maintenance, complete solutions engineering, assembly, commissioning, training, and post-sale support.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

SGM Magnetics designs and manufactures two product families: industrial lifting magnets (electromagnets and fail-safe electropermanent magnets, with control panels, magnetic spreads/traverses, and remote control systems) for material handling in steel mills, ports, and service centers; and metal separation/recycling technologies (ballistic, gravity/densimetric, air, magnetic drums/pulleys/suspended separators, eddy current, inductive, optical color/shape, X-Ray/XRT/XRF, and LIBS Cleansort R) for recovering ferrous and non-ferrous metals from scrap, salt slag fines, auto shredder residue, MSW incineration ash, WEEE, glass, wood, coal, iron ore, and diamonds. Systems are sold as customized engineered equipment and turnkey solutions, with complementary services including material testing, installation, commissioning, training, and preventive maintenance.

Product overview

SGM Magnetics S.P.A. is an Italian industrial technology company founded in 1954, specializing in two distinct product lines: (1) Lifting Magnets including Electromagnets (EM), Electropermanent Magnets (EPR), magnet control panels, spreads/traverses, and remote control systems for material handling in steel mills, ports, and service centers; and (2) Separation Technologies encompassing multiple advanced sorting methods—ballistic separation (SBS), gravity/densimetric tables (PDS), air classification (ACL), magnetic separation (drums, pulleys, suspended separators, MIMS), eddy current separation (ECS), sensor-based sorting (inductive sensors, color/shape/optical, X-ray XRT/XRF-T, and LIBS Cleansort R)—applied across recycling sectors including automotive shredder residue, aluminum recycling, municipal solid waste, WEEE, glass, and mining.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Electromagnetic Lifting Magnets (EM) Industrial electromagnetic lifting magnets for handling scrap metal, structural beams, H-beams, pipes, rails, coils, sheets, and billets in steel mills, foundries, ports, and steel service centers. Offered in standard and custom pole geometry configurations with adjustable magnetic force and temperature monitoring.
• Electropermanent Lifting Magnets (EPR) Fail-safe electropermanent lifting magnets that maintain holding force independently without continuous external power, featuring 3-second rapid release and minimal residual magnetization. Designed for rail handling and applications where power interruptions pose safety risks.
• Special Electromagnets Custom-designed electromagnetic lifting solutions engineered for specialized industrial applications with unique dimensional, environmental, or load requirements.
• Special Electropermanent Lifting Magnets Custom electropermanent magnet configurations tailored to non-standard lifting applications and environments where standard EPR designs are not suitable.
• Ballistic Separators (SBS) Separation equipment that classifies materials based on ballistic properties (trajectory after projection) for recycling and waste-processing applications such as scrap cleaning lines.
• Densimetric Tables (PDS) Gravity-based separation equipment using densimetric principles to classify materials by specific gravity in recycling and waste-processing applications.
• Air Classifiers (ACL) Air-based classification systems that separate materials by particle size and density using airflow for recycling and waste-processing operations.
• Sand Separators (SJL) Separation equipment engineered for sand and fine particle separation in recycling and material processing applications.
• Magnetic Pulleys Magnetic conveyor pulleys for continuous automatic ferrous metal separation in material handling and conveyor lines.
• Suspended Magnetic Separators Overhead magnetic separation systems installed above conveyors to remove ferrous contaminants from bulk material streams.
• Magnetic Drums Rotating magnetic drum separators for continuous ferrous metal extraction from various material streams.
• Eddy Current Separators (ECS) Non-ferrous metal separation equipment using eddy current induction for recovering aluminum, copper, and other non-ferrous metals from material streams.
• Medium Intensity Magnetic Separators (MIMS) Medium intensity magnetic separation equipment for processing materials requiring stronger magnetic field gradients than low-intensity separators.
• Inductive Sensor Separators Sensor-based separators using inductive detection for sorting non-ferrous metal fractions in recycling streams.
• Color and Shape Separators (CSS) Optical sorting equipment that separates materials based on color, shape, and luminosity characteristics.
• X-Ray Separators X-ray based detection and sorting systems for advanced material identification and separation.
• XRT Separator X-ray transmission separator for high-precision material sorting based on atomic density differences.
• XRF-T Separator X-ray fluorescence separator for elemental composition analysis and sorting of materials.
• LIBS Cleansort R Separator Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) separator for elemental analysis and high-precision sorting of metallic materials.
• DSRP Dynamic Magnetic Separator Dynamic magnetic separator used in SGM's salt slag fines recovery line to extract metallic content from fine particle streams below 2mm in corrosive environments such as secondary aluminum salt slag. Filed as pending patent.
• VIS-EF High-Frequency Eddy Current Separator High-frequency eddy current separator designed to recover non-ferrous metals from fine fractions below 2 millimeters, particularly effective for salt slag and auto shredder residue processing. Filed as pending patent.
• Magnet Control Panels Electronic control systems for managing, regulating, and monitoring electromagnetic lifting magnet operations in industrial material handling.
• Magnetic Spreads/Traverses Beam and spreader systems for positioning and distributing lifting magnets across various load configurations in material handling operations.
• Remote Control Systems Radio-based remote control systems that enable safe operation of lifting magnets from a distance in steel mills, ports, and service centers.
• Engineering, Installation, Commissioning, Training, and After-Sales Services Service offerings including material testing, preventive maintenance, complete solutions engineering, assembly, commissioning, operator training, and post-sale support for SGM lifting and separation equipment.

Quantifiable outcome

• Any length of rail can be released in just 3 seconds
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Industry AssociationsminorOthersSGM maintains memberships in multiple industry associations including FEM, FIM, Federacciai, CRM, CMRA, ARI, IGMNIR, LEEA, Alfed, and Federrec, demonstrating active participation in the metal recycling and lifting technology industries.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Steinert: Steinert is a German family-owned supplier of magnetic separation and sensor-based sorting systems (including eddy current, X-ray and NIR) for the recycling and mining industries. It is SGM's closest direct competitor in integrated recycling sortation lines.
• MTB Recycling: MTB designs and manufactures integrated recycling and shredding plants, including magnetic and eddy current separation equipment. It directly competes with SGM in turnkey non-ferrous recycling and ASR recovery lines.
• Bunting Magnetics: Bunting manufactures magnetic separation equipment, metal detectors and lifting magnets for industrial and recycling applications. It directly competes with SGM in both product lines, particularly in North America.
• Eriez: Eriez is a privately held US manufacturer of magnetic separation, vibratory and metal detection equipment, plus lifting magnets for steel and recycling. It is the most direct global competitor to SGM across both lifting magnets and separation technologies.
• Goudsmit Magnetics: Goudsmit is a Dutch manufacturer of industrial magnets, magnetic separation systems and metal detection equipment used in recycling, food and metals handling. It is a direct competitor to SGM in magnetic separation and lifting applications, especially in Europe.
• Redwave (BT-Wolfgang Binder): REDWAVE is an Austrian manufacturer of sensor-based sorting and recycling machinery using NIR, XRF and visual technologies. It is a direct competitor in fine-particle and waste-stream sorting, overlapping with SGM's XRT, XRF-T and optical sorting products.
• Walker Magnetics (Magnetek): Walker Magnetics (now part of Magnetek) is a US-based manufacturer of industrial lifting magnets and magnetic material handling equipment. It is a direct competitor to SGM's electromagnetic and electropermanent lifting magnet lines used in steel mills.

Broad incumbents

• Metso: Metso is a large Finnish-listed industrial company providing equipment and services for mining, aggregates and metal recycling. While broader in scope, Metso's recycling and mineral processing divisions compete with SGM in magnetic separation and integrated recycling plant projects.
• TOMRA: TOMRA is a large sensor-based sorting and recycling technology group with global reach. While primarily known for reverse vending and optical sorting, TOMRA's recycling division competes directly with SGM's sensor-based sorting portfolio (XRT, XRF, LIBS-adjacent technologies).

Regional players

• Wagner Magnete: Wagner Magnete is a German manufacturer of industrial magnetic systems, lifting magnets and separation equipment. It is a direct competitor to SGM in lifting magnets and magnetic separation, primarily serving DACH-region steel and recycling customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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