Contour Saws Inc., Des Plaines, IL, USA

Contour Saws Inc., Des Plaines, IL, USA

Saw blade manufacturer Contour Saws near Chicago, Illinois has what was at one time a large in house heat treating department consisting of a number of top loading Lindberg vacuum annealing furnaces. Their process requirements changed over the years with the result...
Monday Morning Briefing

Monday Morning Briefing

We will start off with an update to a news item we had last week about a company by the name of Cold Heading Company of Cleveland, Ohio, USA auctioning off some surplus equipment, including a number of heat treat furnaces. We made some predictions about what would...
Bodycote Holds Official Opening Ceremony For New Facility

Bodycote Holds Official Opening Ceremony For New Facility

Bodycote, the world’s largest provider of heat treatments and specialist thermal processing services, held an official opening ceremony last week at its brand new facility on the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP), Rotherham, Yorkshire.  The new advanced heat treatment...
Braddock Metallurgical Atlanta, Georgia Expanding

Braddock Metallurgical Atlanta, Georgia Expanding

Commercial heat treater Braddock Metallurgical in the US South East is according to that impeccable source “The Monty” rated as one of the largest in North America in terms of annual sales (to find out where they rank...