Since 1959 commercial heat treater Allied Heat Treat in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada has been offering a wide variety of services including carburizing, gas nitriding, vacuum hardening and carbonitriding. Alas the end of the road was just 2 days ago when the firm ran their last load of parts. August 18th of this year all of the equipment will be going to auction, this includes numerous vacuum furnaces built by Abar Ipsen and Vac Aero and ranging from 1 bar to 5 bar. This is part of some rather substantial changes in the Canadian heat treatment market which is seeing two commercial shops closing down, 2 others merging, one new start up and two brand new captive heat treat departments starting up.

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