Wisconsin Oven – 2018 Year In Review

Wisconsin Oven – 2018 Year In Review

Interesting the number of ovens Wisconsin Oven built in 2018-a quick calculation shows that Wisconsin shipped on average a new piece of equipment every 1.6 days or 4.3 per week which is pretty cool. “2018 was another strong year of growth for Wisconsin Oven. During...
Trive Capital Partners Acquires California Brazing

Trive Capital Partners Acquires California Brazing

Well we now have our first acquisition in the North American commercial heat treating industry for 2019. An equity firm by the name of Trive Capital just announced that they have acquired California Brazing with two locations, California Brazing in Newark, CA and...
David Pye on Tempering

David Pye on Tempering

International heat treat consultant David Pye gives us these thoughts on tempering;  “The need for tempering to temper after the austenitize and quench procedure  A favorite television program for me (and I suspect many other heat treater’s) called ‘Forged in Fire’...
Stack Metallurgical Group to Enter Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) Market

Stack Metallurgical Group to Enter Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) Market

Stack Metallurgical Group (SMG) will be entering the Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) market in 2019 with the addition of a QIH 286 “Mega-HIP” manufactured by Quintus Technologies.  Based in Västerås, Sweden, Quintus is widely-regarded as the global leader in high-pressure...
Monday Morning Briefing

Monday Morning Briefing

2019 marks a very special anniversary for “WG Montgomery Ltd.”, and “The Monty”. Way back in 1969 WG Montgomery Ltd. was founded by the writer’s father William Gordon Montgomery as a manufacturers representative firm selling new heat treating equipment-2019 marks our...