MTI Educational Foundation Awards $80,000 in Scholarships to 17 Students
The MTI Educational Foundation is pleased to announce that 17 outstanding students have been awarded scholarships totaling $80,000 to support their pursuit of education and careers in materials science, metallurgy, engineering, and related industrial and technical fields. This year’s recipients were...
Heat Treat Fixturing-“The Heat Treat Podcast”
For several years now "The Monty Heat Treat News" has been featuring "The Heat Treat Podcast" in conjunction with our witty, knowledgeable and enthusiastic host Mr. Carlos Torres. One of our most popular podcasts featured "Mr. Jim Wilbur" of "Wm Wright & Associates" one of North America's...
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 [email protected]
Reader Question-“Does Sauder Heat Treat Furnaces Still Exist?”
We always appreciate reader's questions about the heat treatment industry and are happy to provide answers if we can. In this case a reader posed this question; "I am looking at a used car bottom furnace which appears to be in quite good condition and reasonably priced. However the nameplate...
SECO/WARWICK Lands Another Order In the Aerospace Industry
"A premium manufacturer in the aviation industry has invested in an advanced vacuum furnace for brazing fuel system components for aircraft engines. SECO/WARWICK will deliver yet another vacuum furnace system for a manufacturer of components for aircraft engines. This is the result of years of...
Commercial Heat Treater “Bodycote” Bets on Zero Carbon Emissions
Bodycote, the world's largest commercial heat treater has long been very vocal about it's ambitious sustainability agenda both under it's previous CEO, Mr. Stephen Harris and it's current CEO, Mr. Jim Fairbairn (an interview with Mr. Fairbairn can be found at: "The Monty" Interviews "Jim Fairbairn"...
Wally Bamford “Can Eng” 1932-2025
The obituary for Wally Bamford paints the picture of an individual who led a remarkable life full of many accomplishments. For the team at "The Monty" we will always think of Wally as the man who brought mesh belt furnace lines to North America, a feat which significantly changed the entire...
GM Enterprises And Its’ Place in the Aichelin Aquisition of Nitrex
The recent acquisition of "Nitrex by Aichelin" caught the global heat treat industry by surprise; "Blockbuster Acquistion in the Global Heat Treat Furnace Industry". While the official press release was reasonably detailed it certainly raised a host of questions about how this acquisition would look...
Furnace Company Appoints Managing Director
The AICHELIN Group, one of the world’s leading providers of heat treatment solutions, has appointed Philippe Maetz as the new Managing Director of its subsidiary SAFED, based in Besançon, France, effective July 2025. In his new role, he will be responsible for further expanding the wire mesh belt...
“H-O-T” Completing Furnace Installation
Commercial heat treater "H-O-T" (Härte- und Oberflächentechnik) is one of the largest commercial heat treaters in Europe and as such we have mentioned this company several times over the years, most recently just a few months ago when they announced that they had invested in a new "Ipsen" Sealed...
“Top 52” Heat Treater Completes Expansion
"Advanced Heat Treat Corp." of Waterloo, Iowa, USA has consistently made "The Monty Heat Treat News" list of the [http://52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters 2025]"52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters" for many years now. According to this press release the firm recently...
UK Heat Treater Adds Plasma Nitriding System
Located in Bletchley, UK, commercial heat treater Titanium Heat Treatment Services would appear to be quite a success story as you can see by this story from "The Monty" in 2021; "OCTOBER 2021 POSTING; "Titanium Heat Treatment UK Installing Low Pressure Carburizing Furnace; In 2016 Pawel...
Mark Hemsath “Nitrex”-The Interview
"The Monty Heat Treat News" is very pleased to be able to offer our readers an interview with "Mr. Mark Hemsath" “President, Nitrex/UPC-Marathon/GM Enterprises” 1) Mark, in all honesty, I can say that you are extremely well known in the heat treatment industry around the world. In the unlikely...
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...
Midwest USA Commercial Heat Treater Orders Very Large Car Bottom Furnace
(Editors Note; "The Monty" is unsure of who the customer for this furnace is although we can make some educated guesses. Obviously the customer has landed a very substantial order with some sort of definite financial commitments or they would not be making this large an investment.) "In a move that...