SC rare-earth magnet production needs federal support

Last fall, a truck pulled out of a warehouse in Sumter County and headed down Highway 521 — nothing flashy, nothing dramatic. But that ordinary truck carried something extraordinary: the first commercial shipment of sintered rare-earth magnets made on American soil in a generation. If Washington chooses to act, that moment could mark the beginning of America reclaiming its national and economic security. Those magnets came from eVAC Magnetics in Sumter — the first scalable, domestic rare-earth magnet production in the United States this century. For decades, our leaders allowed America’s military and economic backbone to be outsourced and weakened….