Two of the initial firms supplying superconducting dipole magnets for CERN’s LHC proton collider Noell of Würzburg, Germany, and Ansaldo of Genoa, Italy have joined forces to supply 50 superconducting magnets worth DM 110 million for the Wedelstein 7-X plasma experiment currently being built in Greifswald, Germany. Procurement is managed by the Max Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics in Garching, near Munich. Each of the superconducting coils weighs 3 tons and measures 3.4 x 2.5 x 1.4 m.
