Magnet Pull Testing

At Applied Conveyor Technology (ACT), we understand what a weak magnet costs you. A magnetic separator has no moving parts, no gauges and no alarm — when heat, impact or corrosion eats its strength, it simply catches less tramp metal, and the first sign is usually metal somewhere expensive: a crusher, a screen, a metal-detector reject bin, a customer complaint. Magnet pull testing measures the actual holding force of every separator in your plant against its own baseline, so a quiet failure becomes a line item you can act on. Our testing is performed by certified magnet auditors using NIST-certified pull-test scales and gauss meters, with HACCP-certified staff handling your food-safety documentation.

Product Protection: A separator that tests strong is the cheapest insurance you own against tramp metal reaching equipment or customers.

Audit Readiness: When metal control is a critical control point in your HACCP plan, a documented test history is the verification record your auditor asks for.

Planned Replacement: Year-over-year trending turns magnet replacement into a budgeted maintenance line instead of an emergency.

Our Magnet Testing Services

Baseline surveys: Every separator in the building — plate, grate, tube, suspended and liquid-line magnets — logged with location, type, test piece and starting numbers, so every future test has something honest to compare against.

Certified pull testing: NIST-certified digital scales, standardized test pieces matched to each magnet type, center-of-face method, multiple pulls averaged and recorded — the same method, every visit, so your trend line means something.

Gauss validation: Field-intensity readings with NIST-certified gauss meters for the food-safety schemes that require them alongside pull numbers.

Visual inspection: Cracked or swollen tubes, worn faces, compromised housings and tramp-metal saturation, photographed and reported per magnet — the failures a scale alone can’t read.

Documented reporting: Per-magnet ratings, replacement flags for anything more than 20% below baseline, year-over-year trend data, and HACCP verification records compiled by HACCP-certified staff.

Replacement supply: When a magnet fails the test, we quote a correctly specified replacement — matched to your process temperature, flow and metal-control target — through our parts line.

Industries We Serve

Aggregate, cement, mining, food and feed processing, recycling, and bulk material handling plants across Southern California and Nevada — anywhere a magnetic separator stands between tramp metal and something that matters.

Call us 888-480-0680

One visit puts a certified number and a baseline on every separator in the plant. Since 1991, plants have called us to catch the quiet failures before their customers do.