“With the recent commissioning of our new horizontal gas nitrider, Thermex is now operating two state-of-the-art Gas Nitriding furnaces, enabling us to offer controlled 2-stage gas nitriding, with Post Oxidation when required. In addition, with this new equipment we are offering our new Gas FNC (ferritic nitrocarburizing) + Post Ox, which is a viable alternative to QPQ Liquid Nitriding.
The investment in this technology has allowed Thermex to increase total capacity and provides redundancy when one of the furnaces requires maintenance. In addition, this new equipment offers precise and verifiable process control, using continuous in-line hydrogen analysis as a means of controlling Kn, the nitriding potential. The results from these furnaces have been repeatable and reliable, as confirmed by metallurgical testing on our coupons run in every load processed.
The two furnaces provide Thermex with scheduling and cycle time options to work with customer turnaround considerations. To learn about the range of case depth and processing options please email Rob Ducharme.”
“We are pleased to announce that Phoenix Temperature Measurement has recently obtained UKAS ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for its Calibration Laboratory in the UK (Laboratory Number 10560). The new accreditation strengthens the quality of after sales service and calibration provided by PhoenixTM to support the comprehensive range of temperature data loggers offered. Such new in-house calibration facilities will provide customers with a quick, efficient UKAS data logger calibration option. This facility will be important to help customers meet CQI-9 and AMS2750E standards for Heat Treatment and Temperature Uniformity Surveys (TUS). Another quality step by PhoenixTM, to help customers Understand, Control, Improve and Certify their particular heat treatment applications.”
After exactly 50 years in business WG Montgomery Ltd., (“The Monty”) has built up quite an archive of heat treating photos which we like to share on an occasional basis. Here are a few from 15 years ago.
ALD South Carolina, USA. It is now almost exactly 10 years since ALD Thermal Treatment closed their facility in Blythewood, SC. The plant was built to service a nearby Bosch facility and as demand changed the plant was not longer needed. In this photo we see Robert Peters on the left (now a consultant), Tony Wu (now with Bodycote, China) in the middle and Gord Montgomery on the right.
Furnaces North America, Nashville, TN, USA. The first show Furnaces North America (FNA) had in Nashville was back in 2004. In this picture we see Gord and Dale Montgomery and Paul Armitage of Service Heat Treat in Milwaukee, USA on the right.
Gord Montgomery and Lisa Hill. Lisa has to have been our all time favorite spare parts person when she worked at furnace builder Ipsen. After Ipsen Lisa worked at the Bodycote, Melrose Park facility until a few years ago at which point she left the industry and we lost track of her.
The “Heat Treat Doctor” himself. Dan Herring, one of the best known heat treat consultants in North America along with his beautiful wife at FNA in Nashville, in 2004.
June of 2019 we will be off to the Thermprocess heat treat exhibition in Germany an event which we have attended a few times over the years. We look back on one that we attended 12 years ago and have these photos for you.
Dale Montgomery, Yvan Trouillot, General Manager, ECM
Matt Cross, SSI Europe, Eric Jossart, Atmosphere Engineering, Dale Montgomery
Gerd Mueller-Laessig, HEESS GmbH, Bill Disler, AFC-Holcroft, Karl-Heinz Grosse, ALD Vacuum Systems
Gunther Braus, Dibalog, Dale Montgomery, Laurens Sack, Dibalog
Dale Montgomery, Robert Nöbauer, Rubig
Furnace and oven builder Delta H in Carrol, Ohio sent us this press release with the photo below showing Richard and Neal Conway;
“Delta H Technologies LLC, a manufacturer of industrial furnaces and heat treatment ovens, plans on adding 11 new jobs and investing more than $300,000 for machinery and equipment at their site on High Street, right off U.S. 33. The company makes furnaces and ovens for aerospace maintenance technicians to heat treat components, so they can quickly be repaired and keep the aircraft from being grounded awaiting new parts. The 11 jobs will double the current workforce.
“Thank you, guys, for staying in Fairfield County and staying in Carroll and for having the entrepreneurial spirit to do what you’ve done,” said Rick Szabrak, economic and workforce development director for Fairfield County on Tuesday at the official announcement. Fairfield County provided a $20,000 Workforce Development Training Grant to help with training of new employees. JobsOhio, through the efforts of Columbus 2020, provided a $50,000 performance grant toward the purchase of new machinery. “We wanted to help in any way that we could as a county,” Szabrak said Richard Conway, director and chief technology officer, started the company in 1990 while attending Ohio State University to get his bachelors of science in industrial engineering. He did maintenance and tuning work for industrial furnaces and ovens.”
Specs: S/N: 4926. Year: 2007. Three (3) Fans with side mounted disconnects. Overall Size: 6’w x 6’h x 21’l. W-RES, MAWP 75 psi @ 450°F, MBMT -20°F, 75 psi. Asking Price $15,500 USD. So it this a reasonable price for this unit?
We think so but the market doesn’t. SBS air cooled quench oil coolers are used around the world, are known by pretty well every heat treater on the planet and last forever. However for reasons unknown to us there is not as much demand for used units as there was just a few years ago. We can recall times when as fast as a used unit went on the market it sold-that is no longer the case. So we would have to say that probably this asking price is on the high side.
Last week we had some shocking videos of an in house heat treat department being flooded (the videos can be found further down this page). We were reluctant to provide the name of the company, however it appears that the company itself announced the disaster. It is none other than auto maker Mercedes, and the plant is their transmission components facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
“Flooding of a Heat Treatment Department; Earlier this week we had some shocking video of a captive heat treating department flooding. We have decided not to release the name of the company but we will say it is the largest manufacturer of automotive transmission components in South America. The link below will take you to another video from the same department, in it we can see a number of pit nitriders being submerged. What a disaster and what a shame-this is (or was) an extremely impressive heat treat department.”
We mention this very interesting news item some time ago, however this version adds some more details. It ties in very neatly with the fact that we just interviewed the President of Quintus, Mr. Jan Söderström and his interview can be found at https://themonty.com/mr-jan-soderstrom-quintus-technologies-interview/
“Paulo, a North American leader in the heat treating industry, will add hot isostatic pressing to its thermal processing services with the acquisition of a Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) from Quintus Technologies. The press, model QIH 122 M URC®, is equipped with Quintus’ proprietary uniform rapid cooling (URC), a feature that improves material properties in additive manufacturing and investment casting. “We see the market for HIP expanding, with a large part attributed to additive manufacturing,” Scott Herzing, Paulo Vice President Engineering, comments.
“We have the leading material knowledge and process expertise to help our customers in this area. The ability to combine HIP and heat treatment will allow us to offer one-stop-shop thermal processing solutions, with faster turnaround times.” The HIP will be installed in Paulo’s recently expanded Cleveland Division, in Willoughby, OH, which provides specialized brazing and precise vacuum heat treatment. The plant’s AS9100 quality management system and Nadcap accreditation make it especially well-suited to serve the needs of the aerospace and power generation industries. In addition to turnkey delivery, the Paulo order includes an extra furnace base, extended warranty, and a five-year Quintus® Care agreement. Quintus Care is not only a rigorous preventative maintenance program to assure safe, trouble-free press operation and optimized functionality at a fixed annual cost.
It also provides customers with significant technical expertise to achieve success in their specific applications. Paulo and Quintus Technologies have also entered into a marketing agreement that reflects the commitment of both companies to work closely together to spread the use of the HPHT process. “Paulo was very intrigued by our ability to offer a complete partnership: the system itself, the Quintus Care program including application support, and the marketing agreement,” says Jan Söderström, CEO of Quintus Technologies. “With this partnership they see the possibility to enter the market in the best possible way.” “Working with a market-leading company like Quintus is a good fit for Paulo,” says Herzing. “This partnership will allow us to continue to do what we have always done, help our customers succeed.”
We see that there is an upcoming “Bidspotter” auction which includes a gas fired Surface Combustion Allcase batch IQ furnace with working dimensions of 36” X 48” X 32”. A batch IQ furnace this size is guaranteed to sell immediately if the price is right.
Earlier this week we had some shocking video of a captive heat treating department flooding. We have decided not to release the name of the company but we will say it is the largest manufacturer of automotive transmission components in South America. The link below will take you to another video from the same department, in it we can see a number of pit nitriders being submerged. What a disaster and what a shame-this is (or was) an extremely impressive heat treat department.