THE MONTY: HEAT TREAT NEWS

Bodycote, the worlds largest heat treater just released a trading update for the four month period from 1 July to 31 October 2018. A summary can be found below with all the details at https://www.bodycote.com/ “Group...

“One of the UK’s largest heat treatments and hard coatings suppliers to aerospace, automotive, motorsports and surgical implant industries is starting 2019 with increased capacity coming online and is exhibiting on stand L75 at Southern Manufacturing at Farnborough. The Wallwork Group operates from four locations, Manchester, Birmingham, Cambridge and Newcastle to provide a rapid service to customers in all corners of the UK. Operating capacity has increased as a number of new investments in equipment go live at the end of 2018. These include a large capacity Seco vacuum furnace and Rübig Plasma Nitride furnace in Cambridge.

An aerospace company near Los Angeles, California recently replaced their older vacuum furnaces with brand new units and in the process sold the older furnaces to a used equipment dealer who has just put them on the market. They are going to have a limited market as they are relatively low temperature (1650-1700F) but for size they are extremely impressive. There are a total of 6 units and this shows the largest one a monster at 83” wide X 143” deep X 65” high. We can think of very, very few vacuums this size.