Commercial Heat Treater Looking Forward to New Vacuum Furnace With LPC
Commercial Heat Treater Looking Forward to New Vacuum Furnace With LPC ” SECO/WARWICK will deliver a Vector single chamber vacuum furnace equipped with the FineCarb option and low pressure carburizing (LPC) to Treatnorte, a commercial heat treatment company The Vector furnace ordered will serve both the Portuguese and Spanish markets and will be…
Commercial Heat Treater Expanding With “Multi Million” Dollar Investment
Commercial Heat Treater Expanding With “Multi Million” Dollar Investment ” East Carolina Metal Treating, Inc.” (dba Virginia Metal Treating (VMT) has broken ground on their 20,000 square foot addition to their existing facility in Lynchburg, Virginia. The expansion will include a significant investment of new equipment from Surface Combustion….
Used Furnace And Equipment Listings
“The Monty” has one of the largest listings for used heat treating equipment in North America. Below you will find our two most recent additions and also a categorized listing by furnace type. If you don’t find what you are looking for let us know and we will find it for you. Have equipment to sell? We are here to find you a buyer, just drop a line to [email protected]
Heat Treat Lands Largest Order Ever-To Join the 52 Largest in NA
Heat Treat Lands Largest Order Ever-To Join the 52 Largest in NA Each and every year “The Monty Heat Treat News” puts together an industry exclusive, a list of the 52 largest commercial heat treaters in North America (the 2025 list can be found at ” 52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters 2025″ ). Our 2026 list will be published in the…
Furnace Builder Obtains UL (Underwriters Laboratories) Certification
Furnace Builder Obtains UL (Underwriters Laboratories) Certification (Background Information; vacuum furnace builder TAV, the subject of this press release is one of the largest in the world. To find out the background of the company and where they are going we would suggest this exclusive article ” Vacuum Furnace Builder Promotes Sales &…
World’s Largest Heat Treater Target of a “Takeover” Offer
World’s Largest Heat Treater Target of a “Takeover” Offer (Editors Note; As Bodycote is a UK based company all numbers are in British currency. £1.5bn. translates to roughly $2.2 Billion USD. Note the comments from CEO Mr. Jim Fairbairn about focusing on higher margin technologies and selling or closing underperforming locations. The markets…
Acquisition in the Houston, Texas Heat Treating Market
Acquisition in the Houston, Texas Heat Treating Market (Editors Note; According to this press release “Houston Unlimited Inc.” , in Houston, Texas USA, a supplier of Salt Bath Nitriding “SBN” services amongst other offerings has just acquired “Nitretex” of Houston, also a supplier of salt bath nitriding and QPQ services. More on the SBN and QPQ…
Batch IQ Line a New Addition for Major USA Heat Treater
Batch IQ Line a New Addition for Major USA Heat Treater MAY 21, 2026. Earlier this year “Gord Montgomery” of “The Monty Heat Treat News” looked closely at a rapidly growing commercial heat treater in Quakertown, PA, USA “The Monty” Visits USA Heat Treater Making Major Investments” . Our article covered the history of “Vacu Braze” , recent changes…
Truck Manufacturer Installs Rotary Hearth Furnace
Truck Manufacturer Installs Rotary Hearth Furnace A new AICHELIN rotary hearth furnace for the heat treatment of ring gears has been installed at the DAF-Trucks site in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The electrically heated system replaces a gas-fired furnace and is marking an important step toward modern, energy-efficient heat treatment technology….
Heat Treat Industry Losing One of the “Great” Ones-Mario Ciampini
Heat Treat Industry Losing One of the “Great” Ones-Mario Ciampini Unfortunately, the global heat treatment industry is losing one of the “great” ones, an individual who is known to heat treaters around the world, Mr. “Mario Ciampini” . Currently Vice President, Strategic Projects and M&A, Bodycote plc Mario has announced that June30th, 2026…
UK Heat Treater “Saved by the Bell”
UK Heat Treater “Saved by the Bell” MAY 20/2026; Earlier this year we had a news item entitled “Be Very Glad you are Not a Heat Treater in the UK!” The story was about a UK based commercial heat treater by the name of “MTE Heat Treatment” which had been forced to close their doors after 70 years in business. As it turns out the story had a good…
Steve Cropper Retired?-Say it Ain’t so Steve
Steve Cropper Retired?-Say it Ain’t so Steve For over 30 years Mr. Steve Cropper has been involved in the global heat treatment industry, originally with furnace builder/rebuilder/salt distributor “Park Thermal” (Park closed their doors a few years back which was no loss to the industry), VP of furnace builder “Can-Eng” for a number of years,…
USA Aerospace Bearing Supplier to Install Vacuum System With LPC
USA Aerospace Bearing Supplier to Install Vacuum System With LPC (Editors Note; We are not entirely sure who the end customer is for this order, if we find out we will let you know). ” SECO/WARWICK will deliver a vacuum furnace from the Vector line, equipped with 15 bar abs high-pressure gas quenching and an optional Low Pressure Carburizing…
How Are We Doing These Days? Furnace Builder SECO/WARWICK
How Are We Doing These Days? Furnace Builder SECO/WARWICK According to this report from global furnace builder SECO/WARWICK the company is doing pretty darn well with both sales and profit up. Read on for all the details about how each geographic region is doing, which technologies are selling and why the company is doing so well these days;…
European Furnace Builder Struggles Due to Tough Business Conditions
European Furnace Builder Struggles Due to Tough Business Conditions (Background; It is no secret that Europe in general and Germany in particular have struggled recently for a number of reasons including very high energy pricing. This turmoil has effected captive and commercial heat treaters and industry suppliers- “ELIOG” , mentioned here is one…