The nation’s leading supplier of American-made professional grade industrial magnetic products for debris removal, lifting, separating and sweeping. Built with Grade-8 permanent and rare earth magnets.
Eight product families covering sweeping, lifting, separating and material handling.
Compact, lightweight nail sweep — the ideal tool for picking up metal debris from any type of worksite.
Handheld retrieving magnet ideal for grabbing and moving small pieces of metal from parts bins.
Slip-on fork protection that keeps loads and product damage-free across the yard and warehouse.
Safest, strongest permanent lifting magnet on the market. Built-in safety factor of 3.3× rated load.
Designed for the roughest terrain. Super durable magnet with fork pockets and quick release bar.
Wheeled, handheld push magnet that works on any surface, with an auto-release feature.
Super strength cross-belt separation for aggregate, recycling and processing lines.
The original magnetic sweeper trusted by industry and military. 24"–72", optional wheels or fork pockets.
Tow, push or fork-mount from a single unit — coverage for lots, yards and flightlines.
Strongest forklift magnetic sweeper — removes massive amounts of debris with auto-release.
In-line conveyor magnet with auto release for continuous tramp metal removal.
Maximum-pull vehicle-mounted sweeper for the most punishing debris fields.
It is not our goal to have the lowest-priced product in the industry. The marketplace is flooded with inferior imitation products with horrible build quality and sub-par performance. There is a reason that some products may appear to be “great deals” — they don’t work well and they don’t last.
Every Shields magnet is manufactured in the United States with Grade-8 permanent and rare earth magnets, and built to survive the environments our customers work in.
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Most used in terminal areas, flightlines, tarmacs and runways: the Type ALT, Type A.R. Auto-Release, and MKS4000 / MKS5000 tow-behind sweepers.
Forklift users mount magnetic sweepers on the forks or underneath, enabling the magnet to pick up damaging ferrous metal on demand.
Stone, sand and gravel operations depend on earth-movers, belt conveyors and machines built for crushing and separating aggregate.
“Your MKS 4000 Tow Behind Magnetic Sweeper magnet is doing wonders for our Auto Facility in the rail yard. It is picking up metal so small it’s barely visible to the eye. Thank you!”
“We get what we order as soon as we want it, and the products save us a lot of money and time by removing all the screws, nails and hardware from our terminal facilities.”
“The merchandise delivers as promised and continues to keep our downtimes minimal — that’s critical in our industry.”
Since our inception in the early 1980s as a manufacturer of magnetic sweepers, we have grown to become the United States’ largest supplier of professional grade magnetic sweepers, as well as one of the world’s most prominent industrial magnetic equipment suppliers.
Shields Magnetics proudly serves a diverse clientele spanning a range of industries, including aviation, warehousing and distribution, and countless others. Our products facilitate the behind-the-scenes operations of businesses of all sizes.
Learn more about usWhere we can’t clean up the workplace, we are focused on doing our part to help clean up the environment on a larger scale. Project Blue is our company non-profit initiative, donating 5% of all e-commerce sales to the Blue Nature Alliance — a global partnership with Conservation International seeking to catalyze conservation of over 11 million square miles of ocean over five years.
Our conservation effortsShields Magnetics has distribution agents available around the globe. To order outside the United States, see our list of approved international distributors.
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