Our news item of earlier this week about California Brazing being acquired by an equity firm shows a trend which we have been seeing for some time now and which appears to be accelerating-namely equity firms investing in the commercial heat treating industry (this is...
Out in the western USA, Steve Driscoll has created a very nice commercial heat treating operation by the name of Thermal-Vac Technology. Over the years we have mentioned the company several times; a couple of recent mentions include when they announced a very large...
David Pye is known around the world as one of the heat treat industry’s most knowledgeable consultants. Today he offers his thoughts on high pressure gas quenching in vacuum furnaces. “Work has been conducted on this quench technology for many years now. In fact as...
Commercial heat treater East Carolina with two locations in the US, Raleigh, NC and Virginia Metal Treating in Lynchburg, Virginia recently ordered another batch IQ furnace. The furnace to be provided by Surface Combustion is a 36″ X 48″ X 36″ size...
We ran across two recent “people changes” which we would consider worth mentioning. It looks like Joshua Farrell very recently became Plant Manager of commercial heat treater Mid South Metallurgical in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA. Previous to this Joshua had spent 26...
