A private American company established fifty years, Michigan Magnetics has an enviable reputation in the design and manufacture of magnetic heads, employed in a wide range of applications. Strong organic growth performance combined with strategic acquisitions of companies operating in the same market sector has firmly established the company as a premier supplier of magnetic heads. We supply heads for magnetic stripe, MICR/currency validation, magnetic tape and many special applications in medical, banking, audio, photographic, POS (point of sale), access control and transportation. With 220 people of whom 40 are graduate engineers MMI/MHTB assures you of first class service.

We have a wide variety of standard magnetic head products. With over 200 standard types, there is a head already developed for your application. Most magnetic head applications need some level of customization in order to match electrical characteristics or mechanical mounting into an application. Below is an outline of standard products for specific applications. Please contact the sales office nearest you for specific data sheets, and an applications engineer will be happy to assist.

Magnetic Stripe Heads

• Card reader heads for both HICO and LOCO applications
• POS terminal heads
  • 1, 2 and 3 track applications
  • with and without custom cable assy's and mounting brackets
• Custom access Control Heads in any track count

Magnetic Ink Heads

• MICR: (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) We have several standard heads with various effective track widths (ETW) up to 16mm in length
• Currency Validation: We have several standard heads with various ETW's up to 45mm for all denominations of bank notes

Magnetic Tape

• Audio heads
  • 2 track and 4 track heads in mono and stereo applications
  • Available in standard permalloy and long life ferrite core materials