Monday Morning Briefing

Monday Morning Briefing

We told you that after a one week break that we would have a million heat treat stories to tell you, this is the first installment. We start off by adding a few more details about the truly upsetting story we had last week-that of the passing of Brad Luce of Modern...
Bradley Luce, Modern Heat Treat, Texas

Bradley Luce, Modern Heat Treat, Texas

We are extremely upset to mention the passing of Bradley Luce, co-founder of Modern Heat Treat one of the largest heat treaters in Texas. We will provide more details about Brad and his company next week.Bradley Ferrel Luce, age 43, of Crowley, Texas passed away on...
Gone Fishing July 22 to July 26th

Gone Fishing July 22 to July 26th

While we have a million things to tell you about the worldwide captive and commercial heat treating industry we apologize but they will have to wait until Monday July 29th. We at “The Monty” are going fishing for a week-to be exact spending some time on an...
Accurate Brazing, Greenville, SC, USA Expanding

Accurate Brazing, Greenville, SC, USA Expanding

“Accurate Brazing, a full-service vacuum brazing and heat treating company and subsidiary of Aalberts N.V., today announced plans to expand its Greenville County operations. The $13 million expansion is expected to create at least eight additional jobs. “Greenville...
European Furnace Builder Sells to Chinese Company

European Furnace Builder Sells to Chinese Company

The big news of the month which we announced yesterday was the sale of the HTC Group, which includes four companies – IVA Schmetz (Germany), Mahler (Germany), Fours Industriels B.M.I. (France) and IVA Schmetz Industrial Furnaces (Shanghai) (China) – to a Chinese...
Tenova Sold the HTC Group to Ningbo Qijing

Tenova Sold the HTC Group to Ningbo Qijing

Now this is quite an interesting news item, so much so that we will have some further comments tomorrow.“Castellanza, July 17, 2019 – Tenova – a company of the Techint Group specialized in innovative solutions for the metals and mining industries – today has...