“The Monty” Heat Treat Newsletter July 2020
The link below will take you to the July 2020 issue of “The Monty”, the world’s largest source for heat treatment news. This issue is sponsored by “Williams Industrial Services”, “Phoenix TM”, “Grammer Vacuum Technologies” and “Graphite Materials”. As always we look forward to your thoughts and...
Textron Aviation Explosion
Back in late December 2019 Textron Aviation in Wichita, Kansas, US suffered a mammoth explosion. It came to our attention at the time as there was a great deal of speculation that it was a heat treat furnace which exploded. As it turned out is was an autoclave with liquid nitrogen which bears a very...
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
Busch Vacuum Solutions-Case Study
Busch Vacuum Solutions one of the best known names in the vacuum pump industry offers us this interesting case study in which they speak about “Dry Vacuum Technology in Heat Treatment Processes”. “Vacuum technology is an indispensable part of metal heat treatment. The company Vakuum-Härterei Petter...
Jörn Rohde, President ROHDE Schutzgasöfen GmbH-The Interview
We are very pleased today to be able to offer you an interview with Mr. Jörn Rohde, President of furnace builder ROHDE Schutzgasöfen GmbH. In this interview Jörn talks about his Salt Recovery Units, the largest pit carburizing furnace he has ever built (working dimensions of 16.5’ diameter X 15’...
Fredericks Company
We welcome our most recent advertiser "Fredericks Company" whose banner ad can be found at the top of this page. Among other products the company offers the TelevacR and ETI vacuum measurement brands. "Fredericks' TelevacR and ETI vacuum measurement brands offer the most innovative and provenvacuum...
SECO Vacuum Technologies Installation
Press releases from furnace builder SECO/WARWICK and Seco Vacuum Technologies are a regular occurrence and generally interesting. We have seen and published a few recently and we noticed something just today which caught our eye. It looks like one customer, a performance automotive supplier in the...
How Are We Doing These Days? AFC-Holcroft
"Despite all the doom and gloom constantly in the news, how about a little good news for a change. Here at AFC-Holcroft we have been, and continue to be, inundated with work, as the photos will attest. Additionally, we have had the good fortune to be awarded some very nice orders from well-known...
Where Are They Now – Ed Boll
In our opinion the most professional manufacturers representative that we have ever run across in North America (and this includes ourselves) was Mr. Ed Boll, a long time rep who covered the Northeastern USA on behalf of companies such as SSi, AFC-Holcroft and Wirco. Ed retired just a few short...
Heat Treatment News From Around the Globe
We will start off with some people news, in this case Mr. Greg Huss who within the past month became a plant Manager at Paulo Heat Treating, Brazing and Metal Finishing. Greg worked for many years at Hudapack Metal Treating in Wisconsin, USA which was cofounded by his father Gary Huss. Hudapack was...
SECO WARWICK Sells Vacuum Furnaces To Aerospace Customer
“SECO/WARWICK Group has sold 2 vacuum furnaces for an aerospace application to one client in two locations: the USA and Singapore. The Group has been delivering its products to this client for the last 10 years to such locations as Poland, Malaysia, Singapore, France and the US. Partnership and...
Furnace Builder Rohde Schutzgasoefen GmbH Ships Two Furnaces to Italy
”As the lockdown in Italy due to the Coronavirus has ended, IMG Industria Meccanica Girardello s.p.a. located near Treviso, has restarted all operations and will soon receive two identical electrically heated pit furnaces type SG 150/200 for carbonitriding processes from German furnace builder...
Flame Spray Thermal Coatings Installs HIP Unit
We continued to be surprised at the growth in Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIPPING) around the world. It would appear that a unit has been recently installed at a Italian company-read on; "A Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) from Quintus Technologies will enable advanced thermal spray coatings specialist Flame...
FCA Kokomo, Indiana, USA to Auction Off Vacuum Nitriders
One of the largest in house heat treatment departments in North America is located at the FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automotive) transmission facility in Kokomo, Indiana https://themonty.com/project/10-largest-north-american-captive-heat-treaters/ (a partial list of the furnaces at this facility from a few...
Heat Treating Facility Near Seattle, Washington, USA For Sale
We have mentioned a couple of times over the past year how the RAMCO/Cascade Metallurgical facility out in the US North West is for sale. It appeared to be almost sold late in 2019 but obviously that did not happen. If you have questions about the equipment and sale contact information is included...