Don’t You Hate Seeing Good Furnaces “Scrapped Out”
July 30th “The Monty” had a news item about a “Timken Bearing” facility in the US “Auctioning Heat Treat Furnaces”, in August we had a follow up to this story “Bearing Company Auctioning HT Furnaces-Call in The Scrap Guys!” in which we suggested that most likely most of these items would be scrapped. Unfortunately it brings us little joy to report that our prediction was “dead on the money” with most of the equipment going to scrap dealers. The reasons were many and varied and include the fact that some of the equipment was just plain old and tired, some furnace styles are no longer in demand and also that most of the equipment was electrically heated which is not popular in North America. It still is always a shame though to see good equipment scrapped;
“AUGUST 2025 POSTING: Bearing Company Auctioning HT Furnaces-Call in The Scrap Guys! Timken Bearings is auctioning off a great deal of equipment at two North Carolina, USA facilities later this month-the auction includes a number of heat treat furnaces-if it didn’t include heat treat furnaces the auction mention would not grace the pages of “The Monty Heat Treat News”. As you can see below “The Monty” made predictions about what would sell and what wouldn’t, we are now updating our prediction. All of this equipment as it turns out is electrically heated which generally is of no interest to most captive and commercial heat treaters in North America. Based upon on site visits of the equipment we predict that the vast bulk of the furnaces in this auction will end up going to “scrappers”. As always we will keep you updated.
JULY 30/2025 POSTING; “Bearing Company Auctioning HT Furnaces-“The Monty Predictions” Later on this month bearing manufacturer “Timken” will be holding an auction for surplus equipment located at a location in North Carolina, USA-an auction which will include a number of surplus heat treatment furnaces and ancillary equipment. A look at the equipment list reveals a real “hodge podge” of equipment from a number of different manufacturers, some reputable some not so much.”
In related news we understand that this monster furnace will also be scrapped out and this is even more of a shame. This beast was built by “CEC”in 2023 and was designed to heat treat aluminum parts for the aerospace industry. We have been led to believe that it cost in the neighborhood of $6 million USD to build and shockingly enough was never put into service due to the project being shelved. While there were discussions on selling it, ultimately it was decided that it would be “recycled” (code for scrapping). What a shame is all we can say.
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