Solar Manufacturing Moves to New Location

Solar Manufacturing Moves to New Location

Solar Manufacturing Inc. has relocated from Clearview Road in Souderton to East Clymer Avenue in Sellersville, Pennsylvania. Situated on a combined 8.5 acres just three miles from the previous location, the newly-constructed building comprises 40,000 square feet of...
Monday Morning Briefing

Monday Morning Briefing

​While we haven’t heard much about new vacuum carburizing orders or installations recently we ran across two this past week. In a posting about ECM last week we mentioned how we understood they had recently received an order for a very large installation. About the...
Heat Treatment Australia, Santa Fe Springs, CA, USA

Heat Treatment Australia, Santa Fe Springs, CA, USA

The largest commercial heat treater in Australia and our favorite is Heat Treatment Australia (HTA) owned and run by brother and sister Norm Tucker and Karen Stanton. While based in Australia the company opened up a branch in California, USA back in 2016 as you can...
ECM Synergy Center, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, USA

ECM Synergy Center, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, USA

It is a year now since we had the chance to visit the US headquarters of furnace builder ECM in Pleasant Prairie, WI. Our last visit was to view the company’s brand new Synergy Center, a state of the art R & D facility designed to test customers parts. The Synergy...
Where Are They Now-Chris Bixler

Where Are They Now-Chris Bixler

Chris has spent his entire life in the heat treating industry; almost 13 years at Applied Process in Livonia, Michigan (Applied recently became part of the Aalberts Group of companies), a short stint at Metlab in Wyndmoor, PA (who boasts some of the largest pit...