About Us
Eclipse Magnetics started life as part of The James Neill Steel Company first appearing as a brand after World War I.
After 1930 Eclipse Magnetics launched the first mechanically switchable permanent magnetic chuck. This technology is still available in it's modern form, in over ninety percent of all grinding machines. In the 1950s Eclipse launched its red painted magnet range. Red not only became the most popular colour for magnets, but the shapes and sizes of that range also set a standard that is still recognised worldwide.
Now Eclipse Magnetics is part of the worldwide Spear and Jackson Group of Companies. It manufactures well over Twenty Thousand different products. These products include magnets, magnet sub-assemblies, custom engineered magnetic handling units, magnetic tools, magnetic chucks, magnetic separators, magnet assemblies, magnetic filters.