“I would like to take this opportunity to thank Wall Colmonoy’s entire management and production/quality control teams for the extraordinary efforts made to maintain production and quality under extremely challenging circumstances. Shinwa is very fortunate and proud to be a Wall Colmonoy partner,” exclaims Yoshiro Takitani, Senior Managing Executive Officer of Shinwa Corporation.
“Achieving zero defects and receiving this award from a world-class customer is an excellent achievement. We are proud of maintaining exacting quality standards amidst the challenging COVID-19 operating environment,” states Nicholas Clark, President of Wall Colmonoy.
Wall Colmonoy President, Nicholas Clark, holds the Cataler’s Best Quality Award. Cataler, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Company and headquartered in Japan, manufactures engine catalysts for automobiles, motorcycles, and other internal combustion engine applications. The catalysts purify exhaust gas for internal combustion engines, improving their environmental impact by reducing emissions. Nicrobraz® 30 (BNi-5) joins the metal honeycomb that is assembled inside the catalysts.
Nicrobraz® 30 is ideal for joining components used in many high-temperature and high-stress applications, like catalytic converters. Nicrobraz® 30 has good flowability, low diffusion, and low erosion characteristics. Nicrobraz® brazing products are used in a variety of industries meeting AWS, AMS, G.E., Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls-Royce specifications. Surfacing and Nicrobraz® brazing products, precision castings, coatings, and engineered components across aerospace, automotive, glass container, oil & gas, steel, rubber & plastic, food, power generation and other industrial sectors. Wall Colmonoy also provides advanced metal coatings, brazing, and heat treatment.
Known for our unique proven way of creating superior performing alloys that enhance engineered components, we pride ourselves in providing customers the technical expertise, partnership, quality, value and innovation to help them operate more efficiently and effectively.”
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Oven/Furnace Builder Perceptive Industries in Plainwell, Michigan, USA has just closed their doors as can be seen in the company issued statement below. The reasons for the sudden closure are exactly the same challenges as every firm in the heat treatment industry is seeing these days, supply chain issues and labor shortages. It is always upsetting to see companies struggle, especially one such as Perceptive who had a very good reputation in the industry.
“It is with great regret that I am writing to notify you that Perceptive Industries has closed its doors and is being forced to cease operations after 20 years of serving our customers. This reality is the result of a myriad of challenges we have faced over the past couple of years, includes severe disruptions in the supply chain that supports our business, workforce challenges, and severe drop of new projects from our customers who face similar challenges in the market. These challenges have left the Company with little working capital to continue operations and we are facing default under our loan agreements. At this time our bank has assumed control of all assets.”
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“Under the auspices of SECO/WARWICK – a worldwide leader in heat treatment technology – the 3rd virtual meeting in the industry of international specialists will take place on September 27-29, 2022.
- 3 thematic blocks
- 3 days with experts
- 3 time zones
- 3 hours of online meeting
SECO/WARWICK and partners will be sharing their knowledge and experience – worldwide and…. for free! Acknowledged technology leaders and professionalists will share their knowledge, expertise, and experience online. You can be part of this virtual forum!
It is not just another webinar, another series of boring online lectures; it is a platform for exchanging industry expertise and experience, a meeting of practitioners and scientists, and a coming together of business and science for the times we live in. The world of heat treatment and metallurgy is now meeting in the web of; connections, dependencies, and influences on the B2B platform hosted by the SECO/WARWICK Group.
You will learn about technology, expand your horizons and knowledge, exchange experiences and views, talk about business today and tomorrow, discuss the industry and the challenges it faces, and connect with the world in the comfort of your own home or office.”
Event Website: https://www.secowarwick.com/en/eseminar/
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July 8, 2022 “The Monty Heat Treat News” & “WG Montgomery Ltd.” will be relocating to 2113 Abbey Road, Severn, Ontario, Canada, L3V 0E8.
The new phone number will be 705-259-3650.
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A close friend of “The Monty Heat Treat News” and a very experienced heat treater has just retired from automotive supplier and captive heat treat ZF Automotive in Midland, Ontario, Canada. Ms. Gabi Bennet for many years helped guide the in house heat treat department of global auto parts supplier ZF Automotive in Midland, Ontario, Canada. During her many years with the company Gabi was involved with a number of very high profile projects including the installation of a new AFC-Holcroft 2,000 pound mesh belt austemper line in 2015. Gabi was also responsible for the removal of a number of older cast link belt lines, which paved the way for a major upgrade of the facility which supplies seat belt components. Her experience will be missed.
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Many years ago Lindberg Heat Treat had at least 12 unique systems for tempering stampings. The technology was called “Clamp Temper Press” and the idea behind it was that hot stampings could be clamped during the temper process to reduce distortion. Most of them had three or four heated platen’s and were closed up to about 20,000 lbs. of clamping pressure. A heat treater remembers the technology but has been unable to find out who made the systems or if they are even available any longer. While similar to this picture (from Parker Trutec) the units in question had heated platens. If any of our readers has knowledge about this technology we would appreciate hearing about it.
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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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