Vacuum Carburizing/CI Hayes In our recent articles about vacuum carburizing (Low Pressure Carburizing) we pointed out that the true pioneer in the industry was furnace builder CI Hayes in the USA. CI Hayes was acquired by furnace manufacturer Gasbarre a number of...
Jacob Krashan, AVS Inc., Ayer, Massachusetts, USA So who is Jacob (Jake) Krashan and why should we care? Jake is a long time employee of AVS Inc., a manufacturer of custom vacuum and pressure furnaces who just recently became CEO and owner of the company. Currently we...
US Government Orders Multimillion-dollar Vacuum Furnace “The US Government recently awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to G-M Enterprises, a Nitrex company, for the supply of a turnkey vacuum system that will support the expanding heat treat operations of a...
GE Aviation, Newark, DE, USA Starting January 21/202 “The Branford Group” will be auctioning off equipment at the GE Aviation facility in Delaware, USA. Regular readers of “The Monty” will know that we announce upcoming auctions featuring surplus heat treating...
HT-MX Mexico First To Achieve NADCAP For Hipping in Latin America We have mentioned commercial heat treater HT-MX in Chihuahua, Mexico a couple of times in the past (previous press releases are further down). Those previous press releases related to the fact that the...
Largest Vertical Vacuum Furnace Ever Built by Ipsen, Germany What you are looking at is the largest vertical vacuum furnace ever built by Ipsen at their headquarters in Kleve, Germany. This furnace has a working height of 16.5 meters high (approximately 50’) and was...
