We are currently at the “13th International Specialized Exhibition Heat Treatment” in Moscow, Russia which runs from September 17-19th. This is the first time we have attended this event and we will happily even gladly give you our impressions. The main...
Auto parts supplier American Axle & Manufacturing recently closed down their facility in Charleston, SC, USA (this was the former Torqtek facility). Thursday October 17th starting at 10:00 AM the remaining assets which include CNC Hobbers, gear shavers, chamfering...
A Simple Review of the process of Annealing.We know that the purpose of annealing is to make the steel soft and malleable. We know that the process of normalizing will provide a uniform prior grain structure and flow. We know that the process of stress relieving will...
We happened to see on one of the social media sites that Mr. Paul Dymond of Bodycote was celebrating 35 years with the company (Paul is now Regional General Manager-Western USA). This prompted our recollection of a picture we posted of Paul back in 2010. In this photo...
With the help of our readers (just over 300 different suggestions in total) we have completed our 2019 list of the 25 Most Influential People in the North American Heat Treating Industry. The basic criteria we suggested to make the list is that the individuals named...
Furnace builder AFC-Holcroft of Wixom, Michigan, USA (part of Aichelin Group) just last week held an open house as we can see in this photo. We see what appears to be a total of 4 large batch IQ furnaces in various stages of construction-no idea who they are going to....
