Event

LARM2025 – Linear and Rotating Machines 2025

UKMagSoc

LARM2025

Jun 24th 2025 - Jun 25th 2025

Newcastle, United Kingdom

Updated 11.03.25

LARM Strikes Back

Linear and Rotating Machines event returns in 2025

Following last year’s successful LARM2024, the UK Magnetics Society is running a very similar event this year, only bigger.

Nearly 100 specialists in electrical machine design and manufacturing gathered in the AMRC, Sheffield, UK, for two days in June 2024. The programme of talks covered applications in automotive, aerospace, power generation, and logistics, looking at materials, additive manufacturing, motor topologies, gearing, and more.

A fascinating tour of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre showcased the sheer variety of work being done there, from robotic control to flexible flooring, with many different machine designs being investigated. The dinner at The Mowbray was memorable for its quality, and also for accommodating the England / Netherlands Euros semi-final. Not all delegates were delighted with the result – apologies to our Dutch participants.

Delegates praised 2024’s “really brilliant event”, saying “presentations were great”, in a “super friendly community” which “encourages honest collaboration, working towards research without barriers”. Taking note of feedback though, 2025 will have a more diverse speaker programme, and will attempt to better control the room temperature!

Join us in 2025 for a bigger event – more delegates, more exhibitors, more networking, more of the same quality talks.

PROGRAMME

The draft programme is in development, but it will include a full programme of technical talks, informal networking, a reception and dinner, and visits to labs at Newcastle University.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE

  • To be confirmed
  • Please contact us if you’re interested in speaking

DIETARY REQUIREMENTS

Please let us know as you register if you have any dietary requirements we need to be aware of.

DRESS CODE

The dress code for the event is business attire / smart casual.

CONTINUING CONTACT / GDPR

Please note, by providing contact details during registration, you authorise us to

  • use these contact details to let you know details of this event, and
  • add your contact details to our contact database to let you know about future events that may be of interest.

Please let us know at enquiries@ukmagsoc.org at any time if you do not wish to be contacted in this way. Also, we can remove you from our contact schedule at any point in the future.

We will also be taking photos at the event. If you do not wish to have your photo taken during the event, please contact events@ukmagsoc.org

EXHIBITORS INCLUDE

SPONSOR PACKAGES

Sponsor packages are available – an excellent way to promote your organisation!

Note sponsorship does not guarantee a speaking slot.

  • Ferrite Sponsor: 2 attendees, Logo and link on our marketing material, Listed on our presentations – Unlimited
  • Samarium Sponsor: as Ferrite + 3 attendees in total, 1 item of promotional material or USB or advert included in delegate pack and available at Registration, Thanked during session introduction and closing comments, Pop-up banner displayed at Registration – Only 2 available
  • Neodymium Sponsor: as Samarium + 4 attendees in total, Pop-up banner displayed near speakers, Advert shown during breaks, Logo on delegate badges, Sponsorship of LARM2025 Dinner, LARM2025 title sponsorship – Only 1 available

Contact us for more information.


Speakers

“Faster, Better, Smarter, Greener”. Communicating the advantages of maglev and hyperloop systems.
by Alan James of Expert Alliance

Distilling his experience leading a number of maglev and hyperloop projects, Dr Alan James will illustrate how the technical and engineering proposition must be communicated as part of a comprehensive policy, commercial, economic and environmental case, and must be ‘packaged’ suitably for legislative and project finance purposes. Alan will reflect on his experience of one-on-ones at Heads Of Government and corporate C-Suite level, and upon how to ‘translate’ a fundamentally technology-based proposition into a ‘story which has legs’ for lay policymaker, business and public audiences. Alan’s presentation will focus in particular on how the UK came very close to building a 500 km/h maglev route in 2008-2010, and how a coordinated EU programme is currently developing, demonstrating and derisking key electromagnetic technologies required for 1,000 km ultrafast ground transport.

NEMA ltd

Funding landscape from UK Government
by of Innovate UK

Newcastle University

Materials Nexus

Alloy development of a new family of high performing and processible electrical steels for high frequency applications.
by Carl Slater of WMG

WMG have developed a new family of alloy specifically with the aim of reducing loss at high frequencies as well as improved strength. This has been achieved whilst allowing conventional processing routes the same, compared to siliconisation and other techniques currently used. Whilst already having a >30% reduction in the loss compared to a conventional M250-35A steel, this new family of alloys tailoring of strength amongst other parameter which in turn allows for new laminate design to give further reduction in overall losses of the motor.

Nottingham University