ABSTRACTThe high remanence and coercivity of the new permanent magnet materials are of special interest in the static applications. High ordering temperature and large uniaxial anisotropy at the origin of their good permanent magnet properties are obtained in rare earth-transition metal compounds. Binary SmCo5 and Sm2Co17 and ternary Nd2Fe14B compounds are the basis materials of the best permanent magnets. New concepts of calculations of static devices with these magnets can be applied : the magnetization can be considered as rigid, the density of the surface Amperian current is constant, the relative permeability is approximately 1 and the induction calculations are linear. Examples of hexapoles with Sm-Co and NdFeB magnets are described and the performances are compared. The problems of temperature behaviour and corrosion resistance are underlined.