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Texas Heat Treating’s Buster Crossley Awarded MTI’s Most Prestigious Award; MTI is excited to announce this year’s industry award winners. Recipients were honored during the Final Night Awards Dinner on October 16th, at the 2024 Fall Meeting in Columbus, OH. Service and volunteering are true investments in the industry, by any individual and company. Each volunteer commits their time and expenses to participate on committees or the Board of Trustees. MTI volunteers truly believe in being a part of a movement bigger than themselves.  MTI thanks all of our volunteers for their dedication to making MTI a world-class organization for its membership. Following is the full list of individuals and companies who were recognized for their excellence, leadership, and service in the heat treating industry:

 

Aalberts Surface Technologies, Remscheid, Germany; If you are involved in commercial heat treating in Europe or North America, we can guarantee that you have run across the name “Aalbert Surface Technologies” as Aalberts is the second largest commercial heat treater on both continents (https://themonty.com/articles/the-montys-50-largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treaters-2024/). So it was with eager anticipation that Gord Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” looked forward to visiting one of their larger locations in Europe located in Remscheid, Germany.

 

The last time we visited this location was over 20 years ago and we expected changes and changes we found. The facility is still the same size, a very impressive 10,000 square meters (110,000 square feet) but the nature of the equipment has changed over the years to reflect changes in commercial heat treating. As an example, this facility used to have a very substantial number of continuous style furnaces, this has now changed to more batch type systems. This includes a total of 11 batch IQ furnaces, 3 vacuum nitriders and two mesh belt furnace lines.

 

The whole facility even “feels” different in that most of the plant is cleaner, brighter and more spacious. While their main customers remain the auto industry it is obvious that the plant is looking at “diversifying” which most commercial heat treaters in Germany are also looking at.

 

The Plant Manager “Mr. Marcus Reuter”, gave us a very in depth tour the highlight of which is a brand new “sealed quench” (batch IQ for our North American readers) line provided by Ipsen. It features two new “XXL” units with companion tempers, endothermic generators and a “HEMO” washer. The entire line is completely automated and entered production fairly recently. We commend Marcus on what he has done, it is obvious that he has a vision-a vision which he is turning into reality.

 

North American Auto Parts Suppler Adding 5th Nitriding System; Auto Parts giant “Linamar Corp.” has been named to the list of the “15 Largest Captive Heat Treats-North America” by the “Monty Heat Treat News” for almost 10 years running now and their heat-treating capabilities keep increasing. Their location in Guelph, Ontario, Canada is now in the process of adding their 5th vacuum nitrider. The firm added vacuum nitriding to their capabilities a few years back with the acquisition of 2 ALD units, since that time the company has added two new systems from KGO of Germany with the third system about to be installed. 

 

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Based in Neu-Ulm, Donau-Härterei GmbH is an established company in the heat treatment business and has been operating in this area since 1989. With the acquisition, the HÄRTHA Group widens their geographical presence in southern Germany while further enlarging their network for metal refining in this key industrial region. DonauHärterei GmbH boasts a broad portfolio that includes such processes as heat treatment under protective gas and in a vacuum, salt bath nitriding, salt bath hardening and inductive hardening. The company supplies customers from many areas, including mechanical and plant engineering, construction and agricultural machinery, toolmaking and mobility. This acquisition allows the HÄRTHA GROUP to expand their capacities and gives them the ability to now offer customers in southern Germany even more comprehensive services in the field of heat treatment. 

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“Dr. Troy A. Greene, age 56, of Dixon, died Thursday, October 24, 2024 at Loyola Medical Center. Troy was born March 4, 1968 in Detroit, MI, the son of Ben and Iva Jean (Robbins) Greene. He was employed at Reynold for 30 years and later at Allied Locke in Dixon for 5 years. Troy enjoyed gardening and landscaping.

“Ayer, MA – August 1, 2024 – AVS has partnered with the national laboratory for engineering, Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, to provide two Horizontal Vacuum Furnaces for one of their production labs. Both systems integrate wet and dry Hydrogen process gas along with all refractory metal hot zones. The HMI interface and controls allow for countless combinations of recipes and selectable functions. This allows for fine tuning process parameters and data logging which is essential for analysis to coincide with the process payload run results.

About AVS, Incorporated, LLC; AVS has been providing custom vacuum and pressure furnaces to customers around the world since 1967. Their manufacturing facility in Ayer, Massachusetts is vertically integrated with in-house capabilities that include furnace design, engineering, ASME-certified welding, controls programming, complete integration, and full-function testing of complex, fully customized furnace systems. From concept to manufacturing, final assembly, and technical support, every AVS employee is dedicated to delivering your complete furnace solution. Our collaborative partnerships with customers worldwide have resulted in thousands of success stories. AVS can apply more than 50 years of experience to solve your high temperature material processing challenges.”

• Letter of Intent to Buy “Metals Technology Corporation (MTC)”
• Agricultural Firm Invests in Heat Treatment Department
• Heat Treating as it Should Be-SFS Group AG, Switzerland
• Dana Inc., Lafayette, IN- “Top 15” Captive Heat Treater
• Aalberts Surface Technologies, Remscheid, Germany Adds Capacity
• Parker Trutec-One of the Largest Commercial Heat Treaters in North America

• Item # VF455 10 Bar Quenching Vacuum Furnace 36″ X 48″
• Item # VF450 ALD “Modultherm” LPC System (Gas/Oil Quenching)
• Item # M496 Hunterdon 220 KVA VTR Variable Reactance Transformer
• Item # BOX 476 Large Box Furnace
• Item # B494 Car Bottom Furnaces (2 available) 10′ X 8′ X 22’/2100F

AFC-Holcroft and TOKAI KNETSU KOGYO CO., LTD. Announce Strategic Partnership in Electronics Part and Battery Material Processing Industrial Furnace Business!

It is with true regret that we mention the passing of Mr. Troy Greene, one of the most experienced “chain” heat treat engineers we have ever met. Over the course of his working life Troy worked with two manufacturers of chain products, Renold Jeffrey in Morristown, TN and most recently at Allied Locke in Dixon, IL, Troy also worked with commercial heat treater Bodycote for a period of time. To say Troy was passionate about his work would be an understatement-Troy lived and breathed heat treating. While we have no details on his passing he had, had some health issues over the past few years. We will truly miss him.