About us

Magnex Scientific, the worlds leading company in the design and manufacturing of state-of-the-art NMR Magnet Systems, has excelled for more than 25 years in offering a range of products and services that is unrivalled world-wide

Year after year Magnex has continued to demonstrate its excellence in NMR magnet technology with the development of a variety of record breaking systems and, with its commitment to long term research and development programs, the company is poised to continue as the world's leading Magnet Technology Centre, well into the 21st Century.

The Magnet Technology Centre is the new headquarters for magnet manufacturing for Varian, Inc. and is situated on the Oxford Industrial Park, 3 miles north-west of the city of Oxford in England.
The purpose built manufacturing plant was opened in 2000, and has since grown in size to 90,000 square feet.

The factory is able to manufacture Varian’s full range of NMR and MRS magnet systems including the ultra high field 9.4T 820mm and 7.0T 900mm horizontal bore magnets as well as high resolution ultra high field NMR magnet systems.

Magnex History

Since 1982 Magnex has grown to become the World Leader in NMR Magnet Technology. Below is a brief description of the last 22 successful years

1982

 Magnex Formed

1983

 First Whole Body 0.5 Tesla MRI Magnet System produced for Elscint Ltd.

1984

 First Whole Body 2.0 Tesla MRI/MRS Magnet System produced for Elscint Ltd.

1985

 Magnex moves to Abingdon Business Park
Magnex develops World's first 4.7 Tesla/400mm Horizontal Bore Magnet System for Bruker GmbH

1986

 Magnex develops the first Super Wide-Bore 400MHz High Resolution Magnet System (400MHz/104mm)

1987

 Full range of Horizontal Bore Spectroscopy Magnet Systems developed (2.0-7.0 Tesla, 20-40cm bore)

1988

 Magnex develops the World's first compact 3.0 Tesla/800mm Shielded MRS Magnet System for Henry Ford Hospital Detroit

1989

 Magnex Inc established
Magnex develops 500MHz High Resolution Magnet Systems

1990

 Magnex develops 600MHz High Resolution Magnet Systems

1991

 Delivery and installation of Magnex's first 600MHz/54mm and 500MHz/89mm High Resolution Magnet Systems

1992

 Delivery and installation of the World's first 550MHz Wide-Bore(89mm) High Resolution Magnet System
Delivery of Magnex's first compact 1.5 Tesla MRI Magnet System

1993

 Magnex develops and install the Worlds first 9.4Tesla/310 mm Horizontal bore Spectroscopy Magnet System
Delivery and installation of the Worlds first 7.0 Tesla/400 mm Horizontal Bore Spectroscopy Magnet System
Delivery of Magnex's first Compact Active Screen 0.5 Tesla MRI Magnet System

1994

 Delivery and installation of the first Magnex/JMT 750MHz/54mm Magnet System at an Academic Institute (in conjunction with Bruker)
Delivery and installation by Magnex of the World's first Super-Wide Bore 500MHz/125mm High Resolution Magnet System
Installation of the World's first dedicated fMRI Magnet System (3.0 Tesla) at Pittsburgh with GE Medical Systems

1995

 Completion of the World's first Actively Shielded High Resolution Magnet Systems
Delivery of the World's first 750MHz/62mm Magnet System
Delivery of the World's first compact Shielded FTMS Magnet System

1996

 Delivery of the World's first Actively Shielded 600MHz/52mm Magnet System

1997

 Delivery of the World's first 800MHz/52mm Magnet System operating at 4.2K
1998 Delivery of the World's first ultra high field (8T) clinical research magnet.
1999 Delivery of the World's second ultra high field (7T) clinical research magnet.
Delivery of Europe's highest field (4.7T) clinical research magnet.
2000 Delivery and installation of the worlds first actively shielded 500MHz/125mm high resolution magnet system.
Delivery of the World's first 500MHz 40cm Horizontal bore Magnet System.
Sale of clinical business to GE Medical Systems.
2001 Relocated to The Magnet Technology Centre.
Demonstration of the World's first 7.0 Tesla/600mm Vertical Bore fMRI Magnet System
2002 Installation of the company's 500th NMR/MRI Magnet System.

Completion of the World's first 12.0 Tesla Actively shielded FTMS Magnet System.
2003 Installation of World's first actively shielded 600MHz 89mm bore magnet system.

Delivery of the world first 9.4T 65cm research magnet.
2004 Delivery and installation of the worlds first 800MHz/89mm Magnet System.

Varian, Inc. acquisition of Magnex Scientific
2005 Premium Shielded 500MHz and 600MHz magnets introduced
2006 Premium Shielded 400MHz and 700MHz magnets introduced

14.1 Tesla 26cm bore research magnet installed

Actively shielded 7 Tesla MRI magnet delivered
2007 16.4 Tesla 26cm bore research magnet delivered

9.4 Tesla 82cm research magnet