Kern Liebers is a company which intrigues us as they seem to be that very rare of breeds, a company which successfully combines manufacturing with captive and commercial heat treating. Recently they have been promoting themselves with press releases such as this...
Pit carburizing furnaces on the used market are rather unusual items, when they are available nobody wants them, when everybody wants one they cannot be found anywhere. In this particular case we were aware of an excellent condition Unitherm pit carburizing furnace...
Commercial heat treater Thermetco in Canada has been gradually moving into a new 55,000 square foot facility over the past two years and the move is now almost completed as we saw last week. The operation now has over 110 employees and has available most heat treating...
Furnace and oven builder Pyradia in Canada is a company we have been bumping into more and more over the years, so much so that we decided a visit was again in order this time along with Bob Fincken of SSI. The company has been around for over 40 years during which...
A relatively unusual sight in North America is that of a BMI vacuum furnace. Located in France BMI is a manufacturer of vacuum furnaces and good ones at that but you see very few of them in North America which makes the sight of several in a row a very unusual sight....
