Sartell

You know, when I

was coming from Sartell home on Sunday, a lot of black up there already but you know they always start a little earlier they got a little different soil but uh and it's been just coming here today this morning bean fields are almost gone yeah i don't know a lot of the corn's out too

yeah yeah there's a lot of corn yeah it's hard to find bean field i did hear earlier in the week one farmer had even said something But they took a little break because it was almost too dry.

It was tough on some of the equipment.

Cloud area.

I live in Sartell now with my husband and I have twin two-year-old boys.

Yes, we are very busy all the time trying to keep up with them, but it is great.

I love it.

[upbeat music] Hi, I'm Nate Todd, Senior Editor at Processing, and I'm joined today by Tom Grainger, Chief Financial Officer at Niron Magnetics, a Minneapolis-based manufacturer of rare earth free permanent magnets made with iron nitride.

The company is the world's only producer of high-performance, rare earth free permanent magnets and is currently building a fifteen hundred ton per year commercial manufacturing plant in Sartell, Minnesota, and is also in the planning stages for another larger manufacturing facility.

Thanks for speaking with me today, Tom.

Nate, great to be talking.

The smallest reactor we have on site is a half inch in diameter.

We've moved from that half inch up a, you know, forty X multiple where we've now reduced to recipe in a twenty-inch reactor.

And when you look in the plant one facility, this fifteen hundred ton facility that will be serving customers in Sartell, uh, that's a forty-five inch reactor.

And so those multiple jumps is we're now at multiples where we have learned and transferred and established that.

Yeah.

And I'm not just saying, uh, Waite Park versus Sartell versus Sauk Rapids.

Yeah.

I'm saying, um, outstate Minnesota versus Metro.

Because

right now you have Alex 1, Monticello 2, Moorhead 3, Buffalo 4, Sartell 5, Elk River 6, STMA 7, Brainerd 8, Bemidji 9.

And that's just based off of the QRF.

QRF, okay.

And I mean, they've got to adjust too, because this will be the first time I did see that they're, they're practicing on the herb.

And because of this renovation project, they've been obviously practicing at Sartell and other rinks.

So they, they don't even have much experience skating on this new ice at the herb.

So it's going to be an adjustment for them as well.

They, there was one...

I, I presented up in Sartell, Minnesota, and the chief was there, and he looked at me and he goes, uh...

He thought that I'm gonna sell my company.

I mean, he, he drank the Kool-Aid hook, line and sinker, and goes, "I wanna be a part of this.

Speaking of geography, in St.

Cloud right now, actually, would you be considered Sartell? Are you actually St.

Cloud, Sidney?

I'm sorry.

I'm Sartell, but my address is not cool enough to be in the school district.

So I'm only partially Sartell.

What school district are you in?

Sock Rapids.

That will be a very competitive conference.

All right, St. John's Fall Invite up at Blackberry Ridge in Sartell, Minnesota.

Again, we're coming down to the wire here, getting ready for conference.

And we want to keep taps on the Minnesota schools.