Without a shadow of a doubt UK based Bodycote is the largest North American commercial heat treater and indeed the largest globally. Want to know exactly what the company’s sales are? As a publicly traded company their financial results are easily found at https://www.bodycote.com/
“Bodycote is the world’s leading provider of thermal processing services offering heat treatment, hot isostatic pressing, surface technologies, brazing, and specialist processes with unmatched capacity. Operating an international network of facilities and serving a wide range of industries including aerospace, defense, automotive, power generation, oil and gas, construction, machine building, medical, and transportation. Bodycote’s thermal processing services improve material properties such as strength, durability, and corrosion resistance, enabling manufacturers’ components to work more efficiently with significantly extended operational lifetimes.
Bodycote is a vital link in the manufacturing supply chain, its facilities can process a wide range of component sizes to exacting standards with reliable and repeatable results. With over 185 facilities globally, Bodycote’s extensive list of accreditations across the network demonstrates the consistent high-quality services provided to its clients.”
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Commercial heat treater OWZ in Aalen, Germany recently invested in a new endothermic generator; “OWZ Ostalb bought a new electrically heated EndoFlex™ S endothermic gas generator to replace the company’s old generator. OWZ Ostalb is a commercial heat treatment company in Aalen, Germany, with which UPC-Marathon, one of Nitrex’s business units, has been in contact for several years.
“The customer chose us because we offered the most valuable product with the best-in-class gas mixing and control system, the EndoInjector™, and the highly efficient ReactionCore™ multi-retort system to deliver a reliable, on-demand supply of quality endogas, resulting in significant CO2 savings for their heat-treating operations,” says Daniel Panny, product manager at UPC-Marathon in Germany.
The EndoFlex™ S that was purchased is the electrically heated version with an air cooler, an automatic nitrogen purge system, and additional CH4 monitoring to meet the highest safety standards. The old generator had to be replaced because it had no automatic process control and was not able to control the dew point efficiency in situations where the ambient air changed too much. Furthermore, old components that were difficult or impossible to replace reduced the generator’s overall efficiency even further.” owz-aalen.de
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“We’re proud to announce that Expanite – the Danish specialist within surface hardening and heat treatment of stainless steel and titanium – has achieved the ISO 14001 certification. ISO 14001 has become the international standard for designing and implementing an environmental management system. Companies that achieve the certification have proper procedures in place to measure, reduce and manage their environmental impact.
Audited by TÜV Nord, one the world’s largest inspection, certification and testing organization, Expanite demonstrated that our environmental management system meets the requirements of ISO 14001.
The certification requires Expanite to consider all environmental issues relevant to the business, to have a strategy for managing issues, and to continually improve. Since the foundation of Expanite, sustainabilityand environmental aspects hereof has been a part of our company DNA. Expanite is the leader in sustainable surface hardening solutions – and in this light, the ISO14001 is a very important milestone. “Sustainability and reducing the environmental impact are important guiding principles of Expanite, principles that we work hard to live up to. We are committed to sustainability and have a responsibility to the communities in which we operate. The completion of the global ISO 14001 certification process is a strong testament to that commitment”, says CEO Thomas Abel Sandholdt.
What is ISO 14001; Any organisation that achieves ISO 14001 certification must consider a wide variety of potential environmental impacts, including air pollution, water and sewage issues, waste management, soil contamination, climate change mitigation and adaptation, resource use and efficiency. ISO 14001 certification is a guarantee for quality in the environmental management system, and thecompany’s compliance can be audited. This means anyone doing business with Expanite can be reassured we have procedures in place to measure, reduce and manage our environmental impact.
Setting targets for Expanite’s environmental impact; At Expanite, certification and the active management of our environment management system will ensure that we among other topics will focus on:
• A reduction in the use of resources and materials
• Less waste production (and therefore reduced costs for waste management)
• An increase in the share of renewable resources
• Improve our internal structures to guarantee efficient performance resulting in sustainability
• Pushing the standards for our industry
Finally, the ISO14001 certification is an opportunity to demonstrate to our team, our customers, and the community that we´re committed to the environment. Expanite also holds ISO 9001 certification, and we believe that both ISO certificates reflect our commitment and dedication to working to the highest possible standards in every aspect of our business.
About Expanite; Expanite offers a technology, that prevents wear, galling and corrosion of components in stainless steel or titanium, by hardening the material in a pure gas environment, with no toxic waste and the lowest carbon footprint in the industry. Expanite is a global organization with a combined development and production facility near Copenhagen, Denmark, and hardening capacity in the US, Germany, Korea and China. Expanite’s solutions are flexible and can be introduced directly into a customer’s own production line as part of a licensing arrangement. Learn more on www.expanite.com
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Aalberts N.V. is a public company with its global HQ in the Netherlands. For years, Aalberts’ has maintained a significant position in the heat treat industry in Europe with its Hauck heat treatment division. Aalberts has continued that success here with its group of US heat treaters: Accurate Brazing, Applied Process and Ionic Technologies. The US group consists of eight physical locations and offers a wide range of heat treating technologies with the most recent addition of HIPing in its Accurate Brazing facility in Greenville, SC. In July of 2021 Aalberts acquired all the shares of Premier Thermal which operates nine locations across the industrial Midwest in Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio, generating an annual revenue of approximately USD 60 million with 250 FTE. Combined with the sales of their other locations we are estimating that Aalberts has catapulted into second position on our list.
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So why is the heat treat team at captive heat treater Metalsa in Mexico grinning from ear to ear (trust us they are under their masks). Because they just read the July 2022 edition of “The Monty Heat Treat News” and now they know all the latest news and trends in the global heat treat industry. Want to be as happy as the Metalsa team-you can find this 86 page edition at https://fliphtml5.com/gvbzt/nxte
“MARCH 2022, Metalsa Perfektools Adds HTCM (heat treatment cross member). The HTCM process is the newest heat treatment process at Metalsa Perfektools and began operation December 2021. Metalsa is a company focused on the automotive industry with the manufacturing of chassis for customers such as Stellantis, Toyota, Paccar and others. At our Perfektools plant our process of heat treatment is focused on the production of cross members to be used for chassis in commercial vehicles-a heat treatment process unique to Latin America. This tempering process is very unusual in that it is carried out with water rather than oil.”
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From furnace manufacturer SECO/WARWICK we have this announcement about how the company has just appointed a new Managing Director/President for SECO/WARWICK USA.
“Change is an inevitable element of any development process, without which moving forward may prove impossible. To achieve the new strategic goals in the US market, we feel it is important to implement an appropriate succession plan, including a new Managing Director/President of SECO/WARWICK USA. Keith Boeckenhauer, we wish you all the best in the future and we’re not saying “goodbye” just yet, as a new chapter awaits you here at SECO/WARWICK USA, our new Product Sales Manager.
Please join us in welcoming Marcus Lord to our team as the new Managing Director/President of #SECOWARWICK USA. His expertise will certainly be of great use to the company and its future success. We are proud to inform you that Marcus has over 30 years of practice working in various managerial positions. He is an entrepreneurial leader with a combination of operational and manufacturing experiences founded in the #aerospace, defense, and #automotive industries. He also has worldwide leadership experience in innovative manufacturing processes, operational excellence, sustainabilityinitiatives in the supply chain, and operations management.”Did you like this article? Click here to subscribe to The Monty.
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“MACCLESFIELD (U.K.) – Bodycote is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the return of the Farnborough International Airshow after a four-year COVID-19 interrupted show delay. As the leading supplier of thermal processing solutions, Bodycote works with prime aerospace manufacturers and their supply chains from an international network of quality accredited facilities. To share its expertise in heat treatment and specialist technologies, including Hot Isostatic Pressing and thermal spray, Bodycote will exhibit on stand 41340 in hall 4 from 18 – 22 July at the Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre, UK.
Tom Gibbons, Bodycote’s Global Aerospace President, commented, “Our thermal processing services play a significant role in the manufacture of aerospace components, providing solutions to improve material properties such as strength and corrosion resistance, enabling manufacturers’ components to work more efficiently with significantly extended operational safety and durability. We look forward to explaining how our services help customers reduce their overall carbon footprint and fixed costs. It is exciting to return to the Farnborough Airshow to discuss relevant topics and the latest trends with our customers and aerospace industry leaders.”
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We wish our friends and customers in the USA a terrific July 4th 2022 holiday!
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Absolutely guaranteed that high natural gas pricing will be leading to a lot more stories about more efficient gas burners being developed and installed.
“AICHELIN SERVICE AND NOXMAT SUCCESSFULLY MANAGE LARGE-SCALE PROJECT JUNE 28, 2022; In only two weeks’ time and during active operation, the service experts of AICHELIN SERVICE and NOXMAT have switched over 1,600 gas burner systems from Lower Calorific to High-Calorific natural gas for their customer thyssenkrupp Rasselstein GmbH in Andernach/Rhineland-Palatinate
thyssenkrupp Rasselstein GmbH is a subsidiary of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG and as the only German supplier, they provide the largest production site worldwide for packaging steels. There are several continuous-type and batch-annealing plants in use for production in Andernach/Rhineland-Palatinate
The changing market in terms of natural gas supply required thyssenkrupp Rasselstein to make comprehensive changes to all gas burner systems in production. thyssenkrupp Rasselstein commissioned AICHELIN Service GmbH and their affiliate company NOXMAT GmbH with this complex and time-sensitive task, thanks to their extensive expertise in this area. The two companies had already proven their high service availability as well as their cooperative partnership during a previous project regarding a security update for the batch annealing plants.
The schedule was challenging: The conversion of the burner systems had to be completed within only two weeks, and during active operation of the plants. After that, another week was scheduled for production support and optimization. A constant working temperature had to be guaranteed during the conversion and adjustment of the burners during running operation, in order to provide constant and high product quality. Up to five mixed teams with a total of 10 employees from AICHELIN Service and NOXMAT were on site for this project, supported by several thyssenkrupp Rasselstein employees to constantly monitor the temperature of the control station. To coordinate amongst each other across several levels of plants, and to guarantee smooth communication across the teams, the AICHELIN Service and NOXMAT service managers provided for a radio connection to the thyssenkrupp Rasselstein control station.
During this perfectly orchestrated service assignment, all burner systems at thyssenkrupp Rasselstein were updated even before the end of the scheduled 2-week period. After the conversion, the service team provided production support for another week and monitored and fine-tuned several load ranges.
Torsten Schmitt, expert and engineer in charge of electrics for the maintenance of conveyor plants at thyssenkrupp Rasselstein, is very satisfied with the project and says, “For such an ambitious and time-sensitive project, it’s essential to have a dependable service partner. The cooperation with AICHELIN Service and NOXMAT was characterized by extremely focused communication, and as partners we saw eye to eye. We are very happy that the burner conversion went so smoothly and quickly.”
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We very much regret to mention the unexpected passing of Mr. Dennis Hansen of Fenton, Michigan. Dennis worked with his father John Hansen (now deceased) from 1998 until 2017 at Manufacturers rep firm Met-Pro in Michigan, USA. Met-Pro (now run by Aaron Ackermann) represents some of the best known names in the North American heat treatment industry such as controls company Super Systems Inc., and alloy firm Wirco. The team at WG Montgomery Ltd. had the privilege of working with Dennis numerous times over the years and always enjoyed the time we spent with him. He will be missed.
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