Reports Suggest Bodycote Has Sold Their New Berlin, WI Facility
Reports Suggest Bodycote Has Sold Their New Berlin, WI Facility A report in the “Milwaukee Business General” is suggesting that commercial heat treating giant “Bodycote” has sold their New Berlin, Wisconsin facility. While details are scarce, the report says; “A longtime New Berlin industrial facility operated by Bodycote Thermal Processing has…
“The Monty Heat Treat News” May 2026 Edition
“The Monty Heat Treat News” May 2026 Edition Welcome to the May 2026 edition of “The Monty Heat Treat News” featuring over 100 pages of the most up to date heat treatment industry news and trends combined with updated surplus heat treat equipment listings. This issue features these stories and lots more; AI Data Centers Spiking New Vacuum Furnace…
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]
Aichelin Meets to Discuss Strategy/Nitrex Integration
Aichelin Meets to Discuss Strategy/Nitrex Integration The recent acquisition of furnace builder and controls company Nitrex by Austrian furnace builder “Aichelin” has been one of the top news stories in the heat treatment industry in 2025 ” AICHELIN Group Completes Acquisition of NITREX Divisions”. A big question for the industry is; “how will…
Where Are They Now-“Bill Morie” & “HTSU”
Where Are They Now-“Bill Morie” & “HTSU” For over 13 years “Mr. Bill Morie” was with the maintenance team at commercial heat treater “Braddock Metallurgical” in the US Southeast ending up as Maintenance Manager at the Daytona Beach, Florida location (Braddock Metallurgical is ranked as one of the “52 Largest North…
Heat Treatment Congress (HK) 2025 Heat Treat Show-Wiesbaden, Germany
Heat Treatment Congress (HK) 2025 Heat Treat Show-Wiesbaden, Germany We at “The Monty Heat Treat” have always maintained that our favorite heat treat exhibition outside of the USA is the annual “HK” show held October of every year in Cologne, Germany (before Cologne it was held in Wiesbaden, Germany). For a variety of reasons, the show this…
Meet The New “SSi Europe” Furnace Controls Team
Meet The New “SSi Europe” Furnace Controls Team For many years USA based furnace controls team “SSi” of Cincinnati, Ohio has relied on a number of European agents (and an SSi division in the UK) to handle their European sales, one of these agents was [http://Avion Europa GmbH & Co. KG]”Avion Europa” [http://Avion Europa GmbH…
Reducing Costs During Heat Treating & Brazing Processes Written By Vesco
Reducing Costs During Heat Treating & Brazing Processes Written By Vesco Collins Aerospace is an American technology company and global leader specializing in advanced aerospace systems and avionics, serving commercial, business, military, space, and airport sectors. They design and manufacture avionics, flight control systems, and…
“The Monty” Visits Commercial Heat Treater “Byron Products”
“The Monty” Visits Commercial Heat Treater “Byron Products” For several years now “Byron Products” of Fairfield, Ohio, USA has been making our list of the “52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters”, however until recently “The Monty” had never had the opportunity to visit this facility-we rectified this…
Burloak Technologies Installing In-House Heat Treatment Department
Burloak Technologies Installing In-House Heat Treatment Department THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A MANUFACTURER OFFERING COMMERCIAL HEAT TREATING AND TIES IN WITH OUR STORY ABOUT TRANSMISSION SUPPLIER TREMEC OFFERING COMMERCIAL HEAT TREATING Earlier this year we had an exclusive news item about how Additive Manufacturing firm Burloak Technologies…
PAI Industries partners with ECM to Expand Capabilities and Increase Efficiency by Adding In-House Carburizing Vacuum Furnace System
PAI Industries partners with ECM to Expand Capabilities and Increase Efficiency by Adding In-House Carburizing Vacuum Furnace System Pleasant Prairie, WI – August 26, 2024 – PAI Industries, renowned manufacturer and distributor of high-quality parts to the heavy duty truck industry, has partnered with ECM to bring heat treatment in-house with a…
Top Heat Treatment News Items, Week of August 19th 2024
Top Heat Treatment News Items, Week of August 19th 2024 Each week “The Monty Heat Treat News” looks at our “top 3” Heat Treatment news stories for the previous week. This is determined by the number of views on our website www.themonty.com and also on social media. For the week starting August 19th, 2024 our top 3 news items were; “Nitrex…
Global Heat Treatment Market Size
Global Heat Treatment Market Size August 21, 2024 “The Monty Heat Treat News” published a graph about the size of the global heat treatment market broken down by captive vs; commerical heat treating and also by geographic region https://themonty.com/global-heat-treatment-market-size/-the graph was originally posted by Mr. Januz Kowalewski, an…
Why a Vertical Vacuum Furnace? Contributed by IPSEN USA
Why a Vertical Vacuum Furnace? Contributed by IPSEN USA When you walk into a heat-treating department and see your first vertical vacuum furnace, you’d be forgiven for staring openly at the jaw-dropping sight. There, perched a story or more in the air on metal legs, is a gigantic vacuum pressure vessel. Wires and hoses, pumps and controls—all…
Global Heat Treatment Market Size
Global Heat Treatment Market Size Our good friend Janusz Kowalewski of furnace builder Ipsen recently published this very interesting graph showing the size of the global heat treatment market broken down by captive vs; commercial heat treating and by region. While we don’t know the original source of this graph or what qualifies as “heat…











































































































































