A Look Back at our List of the “15 Largest Captive Heat Treaters-North America-2024”
“15 Largest Captive Heat Treats-North America. Each year we are proud to present an industry exclusive, a list of the “15 Largest Captive Heat Treats-North America” as compiled by “The Monty Heat Treat News“.
We look back a year to our list in 2024;
In 2022 “The Monty Heat Treat News” published a heat treatment industry exclusive, a list of the “10 Largest Single Location Captive Heat Treats” in North America. Since that time changes have occurred and in 2023 we published our list of the “11 Largest Single Location Captive Heat Treats in North America” We are now pleased to offer our 2024 list which has expanded to the “15 Largest Single Location Captive Heat Treats in North America”.
- Our criteria is simple in that this list only includes single locations and not total heat treating capacity in North America. As an example the ZF Transmission facility in South Carolina makes this list but overall this plant is only a small percentage of the heat treating capacity ZF has in North America.
- Our estimates are based upon a combination of number of furnaces and throughput. For instance vacuum carburizing cells have a much small throughput than a large pusher furnace-we have tried to take this into account.
- It is interesting that out of this list of 15, eleven are in the USA, three in Mexico and one in Canada
- While we do not for a second claim this list is 100% accurate we do claim that it is the most complete list which we have ever come across.
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As always we appreciate the input we received from each company on this list and we look forward to your thoughts and comments.”