Description - The basic ingredients are nickel, cobalt, copper and iron, sometimes uses titanium - Two production processes: casting and sintering - Widely used for sensors - Cast aluminum nickel cobalt surface is brown, gray or red, be shiny after polishing - Horseshoe-shaped alnico magnets, which have become representative shape of magnets for many years. Now it has more shapes, and the horseshoe magnets are now replaced by cheap ceramic bonded magnets -The length of the Alnico magnets is mostly four times than its diameter,magnetizing through the length.