52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters-a “Monty Heat Treat News” Exclusive
52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters-a “Monty Heat Treat News” Exclusive Tuesday June 30 “The Monty Heat Treat News” will publish our annual list of the 52 largest commercial heat treaters in North America for 2026, the only such list in the world. This year’s list will feature a number of changes as some companies expand, others…
USA Commercial Heat Treater Closes Their Doors
USA Commercial Heat Treater Closes Their Doors Earlier this week, Phoenix Metal Treating, located at W190 N11350 Carnegie Drive in Germantown, Wisconsin, officially closed down. This 40 year old family owned company operated several medium sized Beavermatic and Ipsen batch IQ furnaces and catered largely to the local automotive parts suppliers….
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]
Polymer Company Commits to New Vacuum Furnace
Polymer Company Commits to New Vacuum Furnace “SECO/WARWICK India has signed a contract to supply a vacuum furnace to the renowned precision components manufacturer, Bhuj Polymers. This is an exceptional event for the SECO/WARWICK Group – the single-chamber VECTOR vacuum furnace will be built locally in India under the Made in India program….
Ipsen Secures ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Reaccreditation for Calibrations Lab
Ipsen Secures ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Reaccreditation for Calibrations Lab Ipsen USA announces the successful ISO/IEC 17025:2017 reaccreditation of its Calibrations Lab, ensuring continued certification of inspection equipment used by Ipsen field service engineers to calibrate heat-treating systems across the U.S. and worldwide. The reaccreditation…
USA Captive Heat Treater Changes Ownership
USA Captive Heat Treater Changes Ownership (Editors Note; Milwaukee Forge has a substantial in house heat treating department with the ability to offer Normalizing, Annealing, Quenching & Tempering in a wide variety of furnaces) “Milwaukee Forge , a 112-year-old company in Bay View , is being sold to a politically-connected ownership group…
Aerospace Heat Treat Good, Automotive Heat Treat Not So Good
Aerospace Heat Treat Good, Automotive Heat Treat Not So Good Commercial heat treater “Bodycote” , the globe’s largest commercial heat treater on Tuesday, released a report for the four months ending October 31, 2025. As a diversified, global heat treater their results mirror the entire heat-treating industry-it comes as no shock to us or indeed…
Ipsen Invests in Pyrometry Certification for Field Service Engineers
Ipsen Invests in Pyrometry Certification for Field Service Engineers Ten Ipsen field service engineers are completing Pyrometry II training through the Performance Review Institute (PRI), a national organization that focuses on certification for processes that need to meet Nadcap and AMS standards. These engineers are on track to be fully…
USA Heat Treater Continues to Invest in New Equipment
USA Heat Treater Continues to Invest in New Equipment (Editors Note; SWMT is ranked as one of the “52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters 2025” according to “The Monty Heat Treat News” ) “Fort Worth, Texas — November 17, 2025 — Southwest Metal Treating Corp (SWMT), a leading provider of precision heat-treating services and an…
Live From Columbus, Ohio-“Furnaces North America”
Live From Columbus, Ohio-“Furnaces North America” It’s a big week in the North American heat treatment industry with “Furnaces North America” being held in Columbus, Ohio, USA from October 14-16th. For 2024 this is far and away the largest event in the North American industry and of course “The Monty Heat Treat News” team will be in…
“The Monty” Visits Controls Company “Stange Elektronik GmbH”
“The Monty” Visits Controls Company “Stange Elektronik GmbH” During a visit to a number of heat treaters around Europe last week, Gord Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” had the opportunity to visit one of the largest suppliers of furnace control systems “Stange Elektronik GmbH” , located in Wiehl, Germany. …
Heat Treatment in Germany & HK24
Heat Treatment in Germany & HK24 The HK24 heat treatment exhibition in Cologne, Germany was concluded last week and is now in our rearview mirror. As always, the exhibition gave us a great deal of insight into the heat treatment market in Germany and there is no other way to say it, except to say the market is not good. Manufacturing woes…
Part Cleaning System Supplier Making Major Investment in USA Market
Part Cleaning System Supplier Making Major Investment in USA Market For years now “The Monty Heat Treat News” has been coming across cleaning systems from a German company by the name of “HEMO” . Forget about standard Dunk/Spray washers and cheap conveyor type cleaning systems-these guys make some really, really impressive systems. Granted…
William Potts, Vac Aero November 28, 1961-October 9th, 2024
William Potts, Vac Aero November 28, 1961-October 9th, 2024 It is with sincere regret that we mention the passing of an individual we have known for years, Mr. William Potts; “Will Peacefully passed away on October 9, 2024 surrounded by his family, after a brave fight with pleural mesothelioma. He is survived by the love of his life, Lisa….
ATP Opens Northwest Location
ATP Opens Northwest Location Our good friends at ATP (Aerospace Testing & Pyrometry) who offer instrument calibration and testing of thermal processing equipment have just opened a new USA location in Seattle, Washington. To this press release we will add that Mr. Andrew Bassett, President of the company is on the left in this picture. …