Fire at Colfor Manufacturing in Malvern, Ohio, USA The press release below tells us about a devastating fire at Colfor Manufacturing in Ohio and the effect that it might have on it’s automotive customers. We mention this today as our understanding is that this...
Heat Treating Mexico-Globalization to Regionalization Within the next few days we will be “profiling” a commercial heat treat facility in Mexico, a facility which has made some major investments recently and for some very interesting reasons. Their feeling is that...
Did Furnaces North America Just Dodge a Bullet? The largest heat treat exhibition in North America in 2020 is the MTI sponsored Furnaces North America show scheduled for September 30th to October 2 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. As most in the industry are aware this...
Custom Electric Manufacturing to merge into Kanthal as of January 1, 2021 “Custom Electric Manufacturing was acquired by Sweden-based Kanthal in 2018 and will now go to market under the Kanthal brand. The transition will be effective as of January 1, 2021 Custom...
Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System? Once upon a time in North America gas fired Endothermic Generators reigned supreme when it came to atmosphere heat treating. Unreliable and problem plagued they were an easy prey to Nitrogen/Methanol systems which...
Solar Manufacturing Provides Turnkey Furnace Solution Solar Manufacturing recently shipped a Mentor® vacuum furnace to a customer in the Southeast USA that services the defense industry. The Model HFL-2018-2IQ features a graphite-insulated hot zone, a load weight...
