A Last Look at Heat Treating in Mexico (For the Moment)

As a result of the recent “ASM” heat treat event in Monterrey, Mexico “The Monty Heat Treat News” has had a number of stories about the booming heat treat market in Mexico including these;

Mexico Heat Treat Market Through the Eyes of an Expert

Heat Treater Has Great 2025-Starts Expansion

“Dana” Apodaca, Mexico Opens Their Doors to “The Monty”

“Amsted” Automotive Shows a Clean, Efficient “In-House” Heat Treat Dek

We now have one final heat treat to look at-“taUSA” in García, N.L. México. Two things about this commercial heat treat struck us as interesting’

• While not widely known, it is owned by “Tri-State Metal Inc.”, of East Chicago, IL, a commercial heat treater.
• Second, the company recently designed and built their own endothermic generator utilizing “SSi” controls and the resulting unit is so successful that the company is planning on offering this system to the entire heat treat market.

What we saw at this location was a medium sized commercial heat treater, very clean and well organized. The facility is largely dedicated to fasteners although we did see a number of high precision gears being processed.

Slightly out of the ordinary were two rotary retort furnaces (which have largely fallen out of fashion) but which make perfect sense for processing fasteners.

The balance of the equipment included mesh belt lines and a number of batch IQ furnaces.

The General Manager of this facility is an individual by the name of “Emmanuel Ponce” and he has to be one of the happiest heat treaters we have ever met. If you ever happen to be in the Monterrey, Mexico area and want to talk heat treating give Emmanuel a call-we guarantee he will be happy to talk to you.

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