Rohde Island Heat Treating Services-New Owner
Commercial heat treater Rohde Island Heat Treating Services has a new owner. Just a few weeks back experienced, long time heat treater Joel Poirier purchased the company from the previous owners Mary Emerson and her husband. Rohde Island Heat Treating Services is a very typical commercial heat treat...
Bodycote in the Era of COVID-19
The world's largest heat treater yesterday announced that they had completed their acquisition of North America based Ellison Surface Technologies. At the same time they issued a statement about the current economic climate. "Macclesfield-based Bodycote announced the completion of its acquisition of...
Used Furnace And Equipment Listings
“The Monty” has one of the largest listings for used heat treating equipment in North America. Below you will find our two most recent additions and also a categorized listing by furnace type. If you don’t find what you are looking for let us know and we will find it for you. Have equipment to sell? We are here to find you a buyer, just drop a line to jordan@themonty.com
Thermal Product Solutions Moving To Prove Efficacy of Dry Heat Sterilization on PPE and N95 Masks
"New Columbia, PA – April 6th, 2020: Thermal Product Solutions, LLC (TPS), a global manufacturer of thermal-processing and sterilizing equipment, announced they are working with hospitals to prove the efficacy of their Gruenberg product line for dry heat sterilization on PPE and N95 masks for...
Bodycote Completes Acquisition Of Ellison Surface Technologies
Bodycote, the world’s largest provider of heat treatments and specialist thermal processing services, is pleased to announce completion of the acquisition of Ellison Surface Technologies. The acquisition creates one of the largest providers of thermal spray and engineered coating surface technology...
Monday Morning Briefing
COVID-19 Update. It’s easy to get bogged down with the endless stream of bad news about the corona virus however at the end of the day the heat treating industry is very much alive and functioning. We have not run across a single commercial heat treater who has shut down either temporarily or...
Enhance your Hearth Series, Part 2 Hearth Height Adjustment
From Bob Grammer of Grammer Vacuum Technologies a US supplier of Molybdenum and TZM alloy mill products we have the this article about Hearth Height Adjustment in vacuum furnaces. This is the second of a three part series. "Adjustable Hearth Height for Wider or Taller Load Capability The available...
Largest Pit Nitrider in The World
A long time reader in Michigan posed this question to us earlier this week; “Hello Gord, I hope all is well and that the current crisis is not hindering you too much. Do you know who has the largest pit FNC/Nitride unit in the world and who manufactured such?” It is a very fair, interesting...
Pure Molybdenum vs. TZM For Your Vacuum Furnace Hearth – Part 1
We have an interesting news item today about why TZM alloy is better than pure Molybdenum for your vacuum furnace hearth. This is written by Bob and Ben Grammer of Grammer Vacuum Technologies, Inc.and their contact information can be found at the bottom of the news item. There will be a follow up as...
The Monty Newsletter April, 2020
The link below will take you to the April 2020 issue of “The Monty”, exactly one hundred pages of the latest news and trends in the global heat treatment industry. As the world’s largest heat treat industry news source this “new and improved” edition of “The Monty” features news items about in house...
The Monty Interviews Dr. Klaus Löser ALD, Senior Vice President Heat Treatment
We are very pleased to be able to offer you this interview with Dr. Klaus Löser, Senior Vice President, Heat Treatment, ALD. Dr. Löser talks about the company, future plans and changes within the industry. Klaus, I really appreciate your time. We have...
ALD Receives Order for LPC System?
Now this is a very interesting rumor which started floating around just last week. We have been told that ALD in Hanau, Germany has received an order for a LPC (low pressure carburizing) system from a German auto parts supplier for e-drives. ALD is known around the world for their expertise in LPC...
Ramada Aços/Heat Treating in Portugal
March 19 we had a summary about the heat treating industry in Portugal https://themonty.com/heat-treating-in-portugal/ If you recall “The Monty” had planned on visiting the major heat treaters in Portugal this past week, however the COVID-19 put an end to any possible in person visits. However the...
Monday Morning Briefing
We will start off in North Carolina, USA with a story about commercial heat treater East Carolina Metal Treating expanding. Just a year ago we had this story about the company and mentioned that their division in Lynchburg, Virginia, Virginia Metal Treating would soon have a new building. Well the...
COVID-19 And What We Learned About “Essential Businesses”
We at “The Monty” would have to say that it is probably very fortunate that we have never had to put much thought into what constitutes an essential business-the past few days though have certainly educated us. From far and wide we have been receiving notices from US companies announcing that in...