Fourteen exhibitors share one row of booths, and only one of them sells magnets. Here is every other company on the floor: what they build, where they fit, and the people worth finding this week. Tap any card for the full profile and LinkedIn links.
The floor
Booths 1–18, one row in the Coral Lounge. Polymagnet is Booth 11. Tap a booth to open its company.
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Compiled from each company's own site, the official MMM 2026 exhibitor listings and the conference app, and public business records. Every profile links its sources; LinkedIn links were checked, and where a personal profile could not be confirmed the card offers a LinkedIn search instead.
Pulsed Field Magnetometers (PFMs) — PFM-08 range (manual PFM08-10, automated PFM08-40, temperature-sweep option) for hard magnets (ferrite, NdFeB, SmCo)
Helmholtz coils and active 3-axis Helmholtz cubes
Magnet calibrator & setter (MCSD) with automated handling
Magnetic field mapping / scanning systems and a magnetic sample characterisation service
Calibration traceable to UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) standards
Markets
Magnet manufacturing
Automotive
Research labs
Production QC
Aerospace
Automotive & EV
Clean energy / generators & motors
Electronics
Audio
Medical equipment
Sensors
Recycling
Research & metrology / standards labs
How it relates to Polymagnet
The exhibitor closest to Polymagnet's own equipment space: both sit at the point where a blank becomes a working magnet. Hirst's strength is industrial magnetizing and pulsed-field measurement.
Key people
Dr James McKenzieChief Executive Officer (Executive Director) — Joined Hirst as CEO in 2022. Also serves as Chair on the Magnetics Society (MagSoc) committee (affiliation listed as Hirst Magnetic Instruments) and writes the 'Transactions' column on physics in…
Dr Robin CorneliusChief Technology Officer (Executive Director) — Longest-serving current director (appointed 13 April 2015). Software/electronics engineer; oversees scientific research and international-standards work (with Dr James Clewett). Accepted the award…
Paul Howard find on LinkedInOperations Director (Executive Director) — Full name Paul John Howard; appointed a company director 1 August 2026 per Companies House.
Jeremy Aldous find on LinkedInFinancial Controller (Executive Director) — Full name Jeremy Robert Aldous; appointed a company director 1 August 2026 per Companies House.
Dr Mark Scibor-Rylski find on LinkedInChairman & Non-Executive Director — Full name Dr Marek Tadeusz Victor Scibor-Rylski; director since 1 January 2009.
Still to confirm: MMM 2026 attendance, Booth 12, and poster GR-05 could not be confirmed from any public MMM program or exhibitor list; the company's own 2026 calendar lists different events (MMA26, LARM 2026, Coiltech, INTERMAG 2026).; No dedicated sales/BD leader publicly named. A 'Robert Trethewey' appears to staff Hirst trade-show stands (e.g. Coiltech) per a LinkedIn search snippet, but his exact title is unconfirmed and no real personal LinkedIn URL was observed. General enquiries route through +44 (0)1326 372734 / an email on the hirst-magnetics.com domain.; Employee count and revenue not verified — only an unverified aggregator estimate of 11–50 employees.; Founding year conflicts across sources: own site implies 1960s roots (~60 years); the current Ltd was incorporated 1981; some directories cite 1938/1930s.
Quantum Confocal Microscope (QCFM) - automated characterization of large numbers of diamond sensors
Quantum Edukit - teaching kit for hands-on quantum physics
NV Core - signal generation/analysis electronics for color-center experiments
Service Measurements - contract NV field-mapping / spin-dynamics measurements
Markets
Nanoscale magnetism
Quantum sensing research
Academic and research-institute magnetism labs (universities, national metrology labs)
Quantum sensing / quantum materials research
Semiconductor and electronics current sensing & failure analysis
Quantum computing device characterization
Nano-NMR / nanoscale spin and spin-wave imaging
How it relates to Polymagnet
Research imaging; little direct overlap.
Key people
Dr. Gabriel Puebla-Hellmann find on LinkedInCEO & Co-Founder — Listed as CEO & Co-Founder on QZabre's team page; CEO independently confirmed by CB Insights and an underline.io speaker profile (prior work: University of Basel, ETH Zurich).
Dr. Andrea Morales find on LinkedInCTO & Co-Founder — Listed as CTO & Co-Founder on the team page; named as CTO in The Quantum Insider (2021).
Dr. Jan Rhensius find on LinkedInCo-Founder (Fabrication) — Original founder (2018); team page lists him under 'Fabrication & Co-Founder'. Described in 2021 as joint CEO/founder; current team page shows the CEO title held by Puebla-Hellmann, with Rhensius…
Miha PompeSoftware & Business Development — Business-development contact per the team page.
Still to confirm: Exact MMM 2026 booth number (given as Booth 1 in the directory) and any QZabre MMM 2026 paper/presentation could not be independently confirmed from a public MMM exhibitor list or program.; Legal entity form is inconsistent across sources: 2026 site footer says 'QZabre AG', the LinkedIn company slug is 'qzabre-llc', and an older German directory listed 'QZabre GmbH'. The Swiss commercial register was not checked.; No disclosed funding amounts or rounds; ownership beyond 'private ETH Zurich spin-off' not public.; Personal LinkedIn URLs for Puebla-Hellmann, Morales, and Rhensius were not observed and were left null rather than guessed. Miha Pompe's URL was observed in a search result but could not be re-opened to confirm (LinkedIn blocks automated fetch).
A California sensor-and-instrument house and distributor spanning magnetic test and measurement.
Headquarters
San Carlos, California, USA
Founded
1982 (began operations in Redwood City, CA; relocated to San Carlos, CA in 1991) —
Size
Approximately 20 employees (third-party directory estimates range 14-20); facility ~13,000 sq ft
Ownership
Private; 100% employee-owned, with 7 shareholders all full-time at GMW —
Where it fits
Sensors, magnets and test & measurement, plus distribution of complementary lines.
At MMM 2026
Booth 2. Silver partner; supports the Best Poster Awards.
What they make
Magnetic field sensors & transducers
Electromagnets & coil systems
Hall & fluxgate instruments
Current measurement
Hall-effect magnetic field sensors / probes
Isolated current sensors and transducers (incl. Danisense fluxgate transducers)
Non-contact magnetic angle/position sensors
NMR and Hall magnetometers / gaussmeters (Metrolab)
Magnetic field mapping systems
Laboratory electromagnets (projected-field, dipole, Helmholtz; DC and AC, fields >5 T)
Magneto-optics and magnetic susceptibility measurement instruments
PEM Rogowski-coil current measurement
NIST-traceable, ISO/IEC 17025:2017-accredited current calibration services
Markets
Accelerators
MRI
EVs & power electronics
Spintronics
Materials research
Oil & gas
Scientific research and academia
Particle accelerators / physics labs
MRI and medical imaging (gradient amplifiers)
Power electronics and power-supply test
Automotive / EV and hybrid-electric drive test & measurement
Aerospace and defense (electromagnetic environmental effects, E3)
Semiconductor / industrial
How it relates to Polymagnet
Adjacent: sensing and field generation, and a channel into many of the same labs.
Key people
Brian Richter find on LinkedInPresident — Joined GMW in 1998; one of the company's officers/shareholders. Title 'President' stated in GMW news posts (2023-2024).
Ben Hartzell find on LinkedInSenior Vice President, Marketing — Joined GMW in 2011; officer/shareholder; frequently staffs GMW trade-show booths (e.g. APEC 2026, Magnetics Show).
Lalo Guitron find on LinkedInOfficer / shareholder (sales & applications) — Joined GMW in 1998; named as one of the 'two current officers' on GMW's About page and listed as a company officer in third-party directories. Exact current title not confirmed in sources found.
Ian Walker find on LinkedInCo-founder — One of three ex-ANAC (New Zealand) people who started GMW in 1982; described on the About page as 'entering his fifth decade at GMW.' No current operating title stated.
Tom King, PhD find on LinkedInLead Magnet Scientist — Technical lead for magnets/magnet systems; named in GMW news posts.
Still to confirm: 'Silver Partner' MMM sponsorship tier could not be confirmed for 2026 in any source found (booth/exhibitor status confirmed; tier not stated).; A 2026 Best Poster Award sponsorship was not confirmed; GMW sponsored the MMM Best Poster Award in prior years (2023, 2020).; No verbatim LinkedIn URLs were observed for the company or any individual, so all LinkedIn fields are null/empty rather than guessed. GMW likely has a company LinkedIn page but it was not surfaced verbatim.; Lalo Guitron's exact current title is not confirmed beyond 'officer'; datanyze profile (which may carry a LinkedIn link) returned HTTP 403 and could not be read.
A scanning-probe and magnetic-measurement specialist with British roots and a Turkish base.
Headquarters
Ankara, Turkey (UK roots)
Founded
1998 (UK Ltd., per CB Insights, the company's E-MRS profile and founder's CV); the Turkish…
Size
~60+ staff per the company's own site (states "60+ personnel" and "30+ engineers"); LinkedIn lists 51-200 employees; third-party contact databases estimate smaller (11-50)
Ownership
Privately held (per LinkedIn). Founded and led by physicist Prof. Dr. Ahmet Oral. One Turkish-market source states…
Where it fits
Microscale imaging and measurement of magnetic structure.
Scanning Hall probe microscopy (quantitative nanoscale magnetic imaging)
Magnetometry systems
Variable-temperature Hall-effect measurement systems
Controller and standalone SPM electronics
Nanopositioning systems
Cryogen-free cryostats
Custom-manufactured systems and parts (20+ products)
Markets
Nanoscience
Materials research
University and government research labs
Industrial R&D and manufacturing
Education / teaching institutions
Materials science, nanotechnology, magnetics and surface-science groups
How it relates to Polymagnet
Imaging/measurement; little overlap with magnetizing.
Key people
Prof. Dr. Ahmet Oral find on LinkedInFounder — Founded NanoMagnetics Instruments Ltd. (Oxford) in 1998 and the Turkish entity NanoManyetik (1999). Also full Professor of Physics at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara since 2013;…
Ashvin Cherodian find on LinkedInEuropean Sales Director (reported) — Listed as European Sales Director in third-party contact databases (Prospeo, AroundDeal both show a 'European Sales Director' role) and appears among employees on the company's LinkedIn page.…
Fatih Sayarlar find on LinkedInR&D Director (reported, unverified) — Named as R&D Director only via a third-party contact database (Prospeo). Single low-quality source; not confirmed on the company site or LinkedIn. Include with caution.
Still to confirm: No current CEO / Managing Director / President is named in public sources; AroundDeal shows two unnamed 'Deputy General Manager' roles. Founder Ahmet Oral is the only confirmed principal.; No personal LinkedIn profile URLs could be observed for any individual (the search layer declines name-based LinkedIn lookups), so all personal linkedin fields are null rather than guessed.; MMM 2026 Booth 5 / exhibitor listing not independently verified against the official exhibitor list; taken from directory input.; Founding year differs by source (1998 UK Ltd. vs 1999 Turkish entity).
Distribution of third-party scientific instruments via QD International (QD Europe, QD China, etc.)
Markets
Academic & national labs
Quantum materials
Magnetism research
Condensed-matter & solid-state physics research
Materials science
Nanotechnology
Chemistry
Quantum materials and quantum sensing
Biotechnology
University and national/government research laboratories
How it relates to Polymagnet
Characterization, widely installed; a reference account map more than an overlap.
Key people
Stuart Schoenmann find on LinkedInChief Executive Officer (Global) — Named global CEO in Dec 2024; prior leadership roles cited at PerkinElmer, Corning, Raytek and CVI Melles Griot. Based at San Diego HQ.
William Neils, Ph.D. find on LinkedInChief Technology Officer — Physics Ph.D.; joined R&D Jan 2005, became CTO Dec 2022. Credited with work on the dilution-refrigerator option and the OptiCool cryostat platform — the firm's engineering/technology lead.
Dan Polancic find on LinkedInVice President of Sales and Marketing (Global) — Joined as a North America sales engineer in 1996; promoted to Global VP of Sales and Marketing in 2022. Primary sales leader.
Matt Gorovoy find on LinkedInChief Commercial Officer — Appointed CCO effective Jul 15, 2026 (announced Jul 16, 2026); reports to CEO Schoenmann and sits on the Executive Leadership Team. Leads global commercial org (sales, marketing, business…
Stefano Spagna, Ph.D. find on LinkedInVice President of Strategy and Innovation — Materials-science Ph.D. (UC San Diego, 1995); joined QD as a research physicist, served as Chief Technical Officer from 2008, named VP of Strategy and Innovation in 2022. Longtime technical…
Still to confirm: No personal LinkedIn profile URL was observed for any executive in any search result; all key-person linkedin fields are null by rule rather than guessed. Only the company LinkedIn page was observed.; Booth 8 is taken from the directory intake; QD's public events listing for MMM 2026 does not publish a booth number, so the specific booth could not be independently confirmed.; Original 1982 founders are not reliably confirmed. Some trade press named Danny Pearse and David Culvey as owners/founders who stepped back in early 2024, but this conflicts with the 1982 founding and was not corroborated — not asserted here.; An unverified single source (Spintronics-Info) claims a 2026 acquisition of Swiss quantum-sensing firm Qnami and of Oxford Instruments' NanoScience division; not corroborated elsewhere and therefore excluded from recent_news. Worth a direct check.
Academic/government research labs (polarization, magnetism, optics)
Precision optics and flat-panel-display glass (birefringence/strain metrology)
Semiconductor / optical lithography
Nuclear fuel analysis (TRISO / OPTAF, e.g. featured work with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation)
Plasma / tokamak monitoring
Spectroscopy and life-science (CD, Mueller polarimetry)
How it relates to Polymagnet
Thin-film optical measurement; low overlap with bulk magnets.
Key people
Tom Hinds find on LinkedInPresident — Son of founder Gene Hinds; took over as president of Hinds Instruments when his brother Paul Hinds retired (reported 2018). A family owner. Current status not independently re-verified against a…
Baoliang (Bob) Wang find on LinkedInR&D / lead PEM scientist (exact current title not published on company site; role evidenced by patent record) — Named inventor/co-inventor on numerous Hinds photoelastic-modulator and birefringence patents (e.g., US 11,054,672; US 8,520,207; US 6,473,181) and lead author of SPIE papers on PEM optical…
John Freudenthal find on LinkedInScientist / R&D (title not formally published; role evidenced by patents) — Co-inventor with Baoliang Wang on the dual-transducer photoelastic modulator patent US 11,054,672 B2 (filed 2018, granted 2021), assigned to Hinds Instruments. Indicates active/recent R&D staff.
Still to confirm: No current (2024-2026) official leadership/org-chart confirmation; President (Tom Hinds) is sourced only to a 2018 Columbia Weather Systems spin-off page.; No official LinkedIn company page or personal LinkedIn profile URLs were observed, so all LinkedIn fields are null (not guessed).; Exact employee count unconfirmed (a gophotonics directory lists ~20).; MMM 2026 booth number is not published on the official confirmed-partners/exhibitors page; 'Booth 9' from the brief is unverified.
A long-standing Ohio maker of magnetometers, Hall sensors and cryogenic measurement systems.
Headquarters
Westerville, Ohio, USA
Founded
1968
Size
Approx. 201-500 employees (self-listed band on LinkedIn); not an audited figure
Ownership
Private. Became a brand/subsidiary of DwyerOmega in June 2026; DwyerOmega is a portfolio company of the…
Where it fits
Characterization and cryogenic measurement of magnetic materials.
At MMM 2026
Booth 10. Co-authors poster AP-06 on FORC of 3D-printed NdFeB.
What they make
VSM / MagRS electromagnet platforms
Hall sensors & gaussmeters
Cryogenic probe stations
Superconducting magnet systems
Cryogenic temperature sensors
Cryogenic temperature sensors (silicon diodes, RTDs, Cernox)
Cryogenic temperature monitors and controllers
Vibrating sample magnetometers (8600 Series VSM / MagRS)
Hall-effect measurement systems (AC/DC, HMS)
Gaussmeters / teslameters and Hall probes
Electromagnet-based characterization systems
Cryostats (Environment by Janis line)
M81 synchronous source-measure system (SMU modules)
8500 Series terahertz (THz) material characterization system
Infinite Helium recirculation system (R&D 100 Award)
Markets
Materials research
Semiconductors
Quantum
Magnet characterization
Quantum computing
Aerospace and defense
Medical technology
Fusion energy
Academic and scientific research
Materials science / nanotechnology
How it relates to Polymagnet
Characterization partner, and a case in point for consolidation: now a DwyerOmega brand.
Key people
Michael Swartz find on LinkedInPresident & CEO — Son of co-founder John Swartz; President & CEO since 2003 (succeeded his father). BSc in Electrical Engineering and MBA, The Ohio State University; joined Lake Shore in 1986. Named as current…
John Swartz find on LinkedInCompany Founder (co-founder; Chairman/Founder) — Co-founded Lake Shore in 1968; stepped down as President & CEO in 2003, appointing son Michael. Listed as 'Company Founder' on the company site and as 'Chairman and Founder' on Crunchbase.
Scott YanoChief Technology Officer (CTO) — Listed as CTO on the company's leadership page.
Karen Lint find on LinkedInChief Operating Officer (COO) — Listed as COO on the company leadership page; COO role also referenced in local Columbus-area press.
William Yang find on LinkedInVP of Global Sales — Listed as VP of Global Sales on the company leadership page (sales/BD lead).
Still to confirm: Booth 10 and co-authorship of MMM 2026 poster AP-06 could not be independently verified; no 2026 MMM program/abstract book or Lake Shore MMM-2026 press release was found. Confirm against the official MMM 2026 program at magnetism.org/2026.; Acquisition purchase price was not disclosed in any source.; Leadership titles come from the company's undated 'Meet our People' page; at least one role (CRO) traces to a 2018 press release and the roster may be partly dated.; Employee headcount is a LinkedIn self-listed band (201-500), not an audited figure.
Small. Parent lists 2-10 employees on LinkedIn (page shows "7 employees", 58 followers); no revenue disclosed. Exports ~99% of production to 120+ organizations across 24 countries.
Ownership
Private, small/owner-operated. Parent Group3 Technology Limited is privately held (LinkedIn lists company size 2-10…
Where it fits
High-precision field measurement, often for magnet and accelerator builders.
At MMM 2026
Booth 13 (G3 Magnetics, the North American office).
What they make
Digital teslameters
Hall-effect probes
Magnetic field measurement systems
Single-axis digital teslameters/gaussmeters: DTM-151 (temperature-compensated, 0.01% accuracy), DTM-152, DTM-133 (0.03%)
3-axis digital teslameters: DTM-351, DTM-350
Handheld meter HTM-121 and handheld Hall probe HHP-101 (0.5%, e.g. MRI room mapping)
Semiconductor manufacturing (ion-beam implanter magnet control modules, supplied to US makers since 1991)
Medical imaging (MRI room field mapping)
Materials-science and physics research at universities and national laboratories
Industrial and OEM magnetic-field measurement
How it relates to Polymagnet
Measurement, not magnetizing — a complement to a magnetizing line rather than an overlap.
Key people
Doug Sturgin find on LinkedInPresident & CEO, Group3 Technology Limited — Named as President & CEO on the company's own About page. No personal LinkedIn profile URL observed, so linkedin is null (not guessed).
Joey Aguas find on LinkedInGeneral Manager, Group3 Technology Limited — Listed as General Manager on the official About page.
Abigael Balboa find on LinkedInEngineering / R&D, Group3 Technology Limited — Listed as Engineering/R&D on the official About page (only named engineering lead).
Colin Sturgin find on LinkedInTechnical Consultant, Group3 Technology Limited — Listed as Technical Consultant; shares surname with CEO Doug Sturgin and appears senior/long-tenured, but being the 1983 founder is NOT confirmed.
Dwayne Mallo find on LinkedInQuality Control / Quality Assurance, Group3 Technology Limited — On the About page and the only individual named on the LinkedIn company page; his personal profile URL was not exposed, so linkedin is null (not guessed).
Still to confirm: No individual personal LinkedIn profile URLs were observed for any leader, so every person's linkedin field is null (per the no-guessing rule). The company LinkedIn page exists but did not expose employees' /in/ slugs.; The named leadership roster (Doug Sturgin, Joey Aguas, etc.) is from the NZ parent's About page and reflects Group3 Technology Limited; the G3 Magnetics Americas office (Cerritos, CA) does not publicly name its own principals/sales lead, and it is unclear whether these people are NZ-based, US-based, or split.; The 1983 founder is not confirmed by name anywhere public; Colin Sturgin (Technical Consultant, same surname as the CEO) is a plausible founding/legacy figure but this is explicitly unverified.; Booth 13 and a public MMM 2026 exhibitor listing could not be independently confirmed from an official floor plan; the number is directory-supplied.
The semiconductor-metrology giant, present here through its MicroSense and Capres magnetics lines.
Headquarters
Milpitas, California, USA
Founded
KLA (as KLA Instruments) 1975; KLA-Tencor formed by 1997 merger; renamed KLA Corporation 2019.…
Size
KLA total (whole company): FY2025 (ended June 30, 2025) revenue ~$12.16B, net income ~$4.06B; employee count reported between ~15,000 and ~17,700 (sources disagree). The magnetics units (MicroSense, Capres) are small teams within KLA, not separately broken out.
Ownership
Public company (NASDAQ: KLAC). MicroSense LLC and Capres A/S are wholly-owned KLA subsidiaries, both acquired in 2019.
Where it fits
Thin-film and memory metrology, a small magnetics niche inside a very large public company.
At MMM 2026
Exhibitor (no booth number published in the app).
What they make
MicroSense VSM & Kerr systems
Capres microprobe sheet-resistance / Hall
Thin-film & disk metrology
MicroSense EasyVSM vibrating sample magnetometers (EV/EZ series, e.g. EV7/EV9/EV11; fields up to ~2.6-3.1 T / 26-31 kOe, temperature range roughly 4.2 K-1300 K depending on option, room-temp RMS noise ~125 nemu, optional automated cassette sample loader)
MicroSense MOKE (magneto-optical Kerr effect) magnetometer tools, switchable with VSM
Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and torque-magnetometry options on the VSM platform
Capres CIPTech tool (current-in-plane tunneling) for non-destructive magnetic-tunnel-junction (MTJ) characterization
Capres M4PP micro four-point probe and micro-RSP sheet-resistance/resistivity metrology
Markets
Semiconductors
Data storage
Thin-film magnetics
Magnetic thin films
Spintronics / MRAM / STT-MRAM
Hard-disk-drive read heads and media
Permanent magnets and bulk/powder magnetic materials
Magnetic sensors
Semiconductor process control and in-line monitoring
University and industrial materials research
How it relates to Polymagnet
Mostly thin-film/memory oriented; limited overlap with bulk programmable magnets.
Key people
Richard P. (Rick) Wallace find on LinkedInPresident & Chief Executive Officer, KLA Corporation (parent company) — Parent-company leader, included for corporate/ownership context; not specific to the magnetics units. Current and verified in KLA SEC filings (CEO since Jan 2006).
Erik Samwel, Ph.D. find on LinkedInDirector, VSM Business, MicroSense (a KLA Company) — Repeatedly attributed this title in trade press and a B2B contact directory listing MicroSense 'A KLA Company.' Current status is NOT confirmed by an official KLA page; treat as likely-but-unverified.
Ferenc Vajda find on LinkedInDirector of Magnetic Metrology, MicroSense — Cited in MicroSense trade-press coverage as director of magnetic metrology; a distinct role from Samwel's. Current status not confirmed by an official KLA source.
Bo Svarrer Hansen find on LinkedInChief Executive Officer, Capres A/S — Named as Capres CEO in an October 2016 mram-info interview, before the 2019 KLA acquisition. Post-acquisition role is unconfirmed; include as historical unit leadership.
Still to confirm: No published MMM 2026 booth number found; KLA/MicroSense exhibitor status for MMM 2026 not confirmed on an official exhibitor list; Current (post-2019) named leaders of the MicroSense and Capres units are not confirmed on official KLA pages; names found are from trade press / directories and may be dated; No verbatim personal LinkedIn profile URLs were observed for any key person, so all are set to null (not guessed); KLA's own linkedin.com/company URL was not observed in results, so left blank
A Tohoku University spin-off commercializing TMR (tunnel-magnetoresistance) sensors.
Headquarters
Sendai, Japan
Founded
September 10, 2018 (source: official English About page; initial.inc registry)
Ownership
Private, venture-backed (seed stage). Tohoku University spin-off; disclosed shareholder Tohoku University Venture…
Where it fits
Reading magnetic fields and patterns back out — the sensing side of programmed magnets.
At MMM 2026
Booth 18. Co-authors paper CE-04.
What they make
TMR magnetic sensors
Room-temperature high-sensitivity TMR (tunnel magnetoresistance) magnetic sensor elements and modules
TMR element design — films, materials, array structures
Prototype TMR sensors manufactured and sold for R&D use
Amplifier / readout circuit design
Custom magnetic-sensor solutions and measurement-technology R&D
Scanning magnetic microscope (listed by CB Insights)
Markets
Industrial sensing
Biomedical sensing
Pattern identification
Medical / biomagnetic sensing (magnetoencephalography MEG, magnetocardiography, spin-MRI)
Healthcare
Mobility / transportation
Infrastructure
How it relates to Polymagnet
Complementary: sensors that can read a coded magnetization pattern. Co-authors CE-04, which identifies magnetization patterns with TMR sensors and deep learning.
Key people
Hitoshi Matsuzaki (松﨑 斉) find on LinkedInRepresentative Director / CEO — Current representative, named verbatim as 'Hitoshi Matsuzaki' on the company's own English About page and as 松﨑 斉 on the initial.inc registry entry (updated Jan 2026).
Yasuo Ando (安藤 康夫) find on LinkedInCo-founder; Professor, Graduate School of Engineering (Applied Physics), Tohoku University — Named as a founder on the company's About page and in the 2018 Tohoku/JST founding release; leads the applied-physics/spintronics group behind the TMR sensor technology.
Nobukazu Nakasato (中里 信和) find on LinkedInCo-founder; Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University — Named co-founder; provides the medical / biomagnetic (MEG) application direction. From the 2018 founding release and company About page.
Terunobu Miyazaki (宮﨑 照宣) find on LinkedInCo-founder; Honorary Professor, Tohoku University — Named co-founder; credited on the company page with first demonstrating the room-temperature TMR effect (1994), the physics the company is built on.
Mikihiko Oogane (大兼 幹彦) find on LinkedInProfessor, Dept. of Applied Physics (Spin Electronics), Tohoku University — lead academic collaborator / co-author on the company's TMR sensor research — Principal academic driver of the company's high-sensitivity TMR biomagnetic-sensor work and repeat co-author with the firm (e.g., 2021 Magnetics Society of Japan program). No formal officer title…
Still to confirm: MMM 2026 Booth 18 could not be independently confirmed — the conference exhibitor/partners list and program/abstract books (PDFs on magnetism.org/2026) were not retrievable at research time.; MMM 2026 abstract CE-04 (title + full author line) is unverified in the public program; the company's involvement is plausible given its Tohoku TMR-sensor research but not confirmed.; Leadership-source conflict resolved: CB Insights lists Seiji Kumagai as CEO but marks him 'Former'; the current CEO per the company's own site is Hitoshi Matsuzaki.; No LinkedIn presence found for the company or any individual — all personal LinkedIn fields set to null and company LinkedIn left blank (none observed; none guessed).
A family-owned vacuum-technology institution supplying deposition systems and source materials.
Headquarters
Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania, USA
Founded
1954 — founded by Kurt J. Lesker (grandfather of current CEO Kurt J. Lesker IV); reportedly…
Size
approx. 400-450 employees (LinkedIn lists ~419 employees / band 201-500; company site says "400+ dedicated employees, including 30+ engineers"; a 2016 profile cited 425). Private company; no reliable public revenue figure — third-party directory revenue estimates vary widely and are not trustworthy.
Ownership
Private, family-owned and formally Woman-Owned and Operated. Cindy Lesker (widow of former president Kurt J. Lesker…
Where it fits
Upstream materials and thin-film deposition, not magnet making.
At MMM 2026
Booth 6.
What they make
Sputter / e-beam / ALD deposition systems
Vacuum components
Source & target materials
Thin-film deposition systems — magnetron sputtering, thermal and electron-beam evaporation, and atomic layer deposition (ALD)
TORUS magnetron sputtering cathodes and power supplies
Deposition source materials — sputtering targets and evaporation materials
Evaporation sources and crucibles
Vacuum chambers (standard and custom) and sample manipulation/motion
Vacuum pumps (rotary vane, scroll) and pressure gauges
Leak detectors and residual gas analyzers (RGAs)
Film thickness monitors
Service, repair and target/material reclaim
Markets
Thin-film research
Semiconductors
Coatings
Semiconductor manufacturing
LEDs and optics
UHV / synchrotrons
Electronics and thin-film magnetics
Wear and decorative coatings
Aerospace
Academic and industrial R&D
How it relates to Polymagnet
Supplier side; outside the magnetizing/measurement core.
Key people
Kurt J. Lesker IV find on LinkedInPresident & Chief Executive Officer — Grandson of the founder; third-generation leader. Joined the company in 2006 as an industrial engineer, rose through Quality, Industrial Engineering and Vice President of Global Sales, and became…
Cindy Lesker find on LinkedInChairman of the Board — Widow of former president Kurt J. Lesker III; a ~40-year employee who served as Vice President of IT before being elected Chairman of the Board in late 2015. She is the basis for the company's…
J.R. Gaines find on LinkedInDirector of Technical Education (Technical Director of Education) — Public-facing technical leader who runs KJLC's Technology Education Department / 'Lesker U' PVD, ALD and vacuum-system courses; ~40 years in advanced-materials R&D and commercialization (prior:…
Duane Bingaman find on LinkedInVice President of Sales, Process Equipment Division & KDF Technologies — Listed as the sales/BD leader for the Process Equipment Division and KDF line. LOWER CONFIDENCE: title comes from an undated Craft.co directory listing, not a primary source, and may be out of date.
Still to confirm: No personal LinkedIn profile URL was observed verbatim for any individual despite multiple targeted searches; all key_people linkedin fields are null (not guessed). Only the company LinkedIn page was confirmed.; Current officer roster beyond CEO/Chairman is partly dated: 2016 sources named VPs Chuck DeVentura (Global Engineered Solutions) and John Lubic (Global Product Distribution), and 2024 EMEIA leaders Simon Mansbridge (VP) and Dave Mills (GM & Finance Director) — not included as current because currency could not be confirmed. No Chief Technology Officer / engineering-lead title was found publicly.; Booth number (6) and any sponsor/partner tier at MMM 2026 could not be verified against a public exhibitor list; booth taken from the directory input.; No reliable public revenue figure; private company and aggregator estimates conflict.
17 research journals in total, plus scientific meetings (e.g., APS March Meeting)
Markets
Academic publishing
Academic physics researchers (authors and readers), worldwide
Industrial and government R&D labs in physics and materials/magnetics
University and institutional libraries (journal subscriptions and open-access publishing)
The broader physics and condensed-matter/magnetism community via journals and conferences
How it relates to Polymagnet
A publisher, not part of the equipment landscape.
Key people
Jonathan A. Bagger find on LinkedInChief Executive Officer, American Physical Society — Leads APS overall; CEO since January 2021 (succeeded Kate Kirby). Theoretical physicist, previously of Johns Hopkins and TRIUMF. Not confirmed changed for 2026 from a dated source, but no…
Robert Rosner find on LinkedInEditor in Chief, American Physical Society (oversees the Physical Review journals) — Appointed by the APS Board effective March 2025; chairs the Committee on Scientific Publications and provides governance oversight of APS research publications. University of Chicago…
Sarma Kancharla find on LinkedInChief Editor, Physical Review B (APS condensed-matter & materials journal; covers magnetism) — Took over as Chief Editor of PRB in April 2024. PhD Rutgers 2002 in theoretical condensed-matter (strongly correlated systems); joined PRB in 2007. PRB is the Physical Review journal most directly…
Stephen E. Nagler find on LinkedInLead Editor, Physical Review B — Named Lead Editor of PRB effective February 1, 2023 (succeeding Laurens Molenkamp). Neutron-scattering / magnetism physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Erik BernsteinStrategic communications / PR lead, American Physical Society (per observed LinkedIn; not confirmed as a C-suite officer) — Surfaced as the APS strategic-communications/PR contact in a LinkedIn search result. Included as a likely media/outreach contact; role level not independently verified beyond the observed profile.
Still to confirm: "Booth 3" and "Silver partner" tier for MMM 2026 come from the task brief and could not be independently verified in public sources at research time (the MMM 2026 exhibitor/sponsor list was not retrievable).; aps.org and journals.aps.org pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetch; editorial roster was confirmed via APS News / announcement search snippets and the public PRB staff listing rather than a live masthead fetch.; No personal LinkedIn profiles were observed for Bagger, Rosner, Kancharla or Nagler, so those are set to null (not guessed).; Jonathan Bagger's CEO tenure was not confirmed for 2026 from a dated source (no successor reported; most recent dated items are 2025).
A nonprofit standards body for storage and memory — here for the MRAM conversation.
Headquarters
USA
Founded
1997 (incorporated December 1997)
Size
185+ unique member organizations, 2,000+ active contributing members, 50,000+ IT end users/storage professionals; small professional staff (source: Wikipedia)
Ownership
Nonprofit -- registered 501(c)(6) trade association; member-governed with a board elected by member companies…
Where it fits
Standards and specifications, not products.
At MMM 2026
Booth 4. Bronze partner; supports the MRAM symposium.
What they make
Storage & memory standards
MRAM specifications
Vendor-neutral standards and specifications (e.g., SFF connector/form-factor specs, Swordfish storage management, SNIA Emerald power efficiency, computational storage, Solid State Storage Initiative)
Technical Working Groups and the Technical Council
MRAM Alliance Special Interest Group (SIG), evolved from the earlier MRAM Technology Group
SNIA Developer Conference (SDC) and a library of 4,400+ technical resources
Education, webinars, and certification programs
Markets
Data storage
Memory
Data storage / storage networking
Enterprise and emerging memory (incl. MRAM / STT-MRAM)
Semiconductors and foundries
Cloud / datacenter / AI infrastructure
How it relates to Polymagnet
A standards body, not a company in the equipment landscape; useful for the memory/MRAM thread, not for consolidation.
Key people
Dr. J Michel Metz find on LinkedInChair, SNIA Board of Directors — Also Technical Director for Systems Design at AMD; longtime SNIA chair (reported 4th term) and inaugural chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. Governance lead for the association.
Jean-Pierre Nozieres find on LinkedInCo-Chair, SNIA MRAM Alliance Special Interest Group — Most magnetics-relevant SNIA figure for an MMM audience. Physicist; co-founder of the Spintec spintronics lab (2002, with Bernard Dieny/CEA) and founder of MRAM startups Crocus Technology,…
Richelle Ahlvers find on LinkedInVice Chair, SNIA Board of Directors — Ecosystem Enabling Director, Datacenter-AI Business, at Intel; also chairs SNIA's Storage Management Community and Swordfish TWG; won the 2026 SuperWomen of FMS Leadership Award.
Michael Meleedy find on LinkedInChief Operations Officer (SNIA staff leadership) — Listed as the staff-leadership head on SNIA's current staff page and as a Board Advisor/COO in the FY2026 announcement. (Michael Oros, SNIA Executive Director since 2016, is no longer listed on…
Jason Molgaard find on LinkedInCo-Chair, SNIA Technical Council — From Solidigm; co-chairs the Technical Council with Curtis Ballard (HPE). Technical Council members for FY2026 include Shyam Iyer (Dell), Trent Johnson (IBM), Fred Knight (KIOXIA), John Mazzie…
Still to confirm: MMM 2026 specifics unverified: public sources did not confirm SNIA's booth number (4), its Bronze sponsor tier, or a named SNIA 'MRAM symposium' at MMM 2026. The MMM 2026 exhibitor/sponsor list was not publicly accessible.; Executive Director status unclear: Michael Oros has been SNIA Executive Director since 2016 but is NOT listed on the current SNIA staff page (which shows COO Michael Meleedy as staff leadership). Whether Oros still holds the ED title in FY2026 could not be confirmed.; No personal LinkedIn profile URLs were observed for any key person, so all were set to null per instructions (no guessing). The SNIA company LinkedIn URL (linkedin.com/company/snia) was observed in search results but traces to a 2018 SNIA source, so it is probable-but-not-freshly-confirmed.; The MRAM Alliance SIG's second co-chair and full officer/member roster are not publicly published; only Jean-Pierre Nozieres is named as co-chair.