“Top 52” Heat Treater Expanding
In our recent "Industry Exclusive" list of the "52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters" ranked by estimated 2025 sales we included for the first time ever a company by the name of "Vacu Braze" in Quakertown, PA, USA. After publishing the list, we learned that the firm has been making...
Solar Manufacturing Delivers Upgraded Ipsen VFC-924 Hot Zone to Leading Aerospace Manufacturer
Solar Manufacturing recently shipped a replacement Ipsen VFC-924 hot zone to a prominent U.S.-based global aerospace company. This customer performs thermal processing on a variety of critical aerospace components used across multiple aircraft platforms. John Hahn, Aftermarket Sales Manager at Solar...
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]
McLaughlin Furnace Group Lands Large Furnace Install Project
In 2024 commercial heat treater Cambridge Heat Treating in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada announced that they were closing down with all of the equipment going on to the used market. Cambridge always took great pride in their equipment and it showed-most of it was relatively new and in very good...
Acquisition in the US Heat Treat Industry
Now is this real heat treating or not since it involves "on site stress relieving" ? You can certainly argue the point since it doesn't involve flames but at the end of the day "The Monty" Team voted to mention it; "NEDERLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Industrial Thermal Services (ITS), a leading...
“The Monty” Interviews “Jim Fairbairn”, “Bodycote” CEO
In an industry exclusive "The Monty Heat Treat News" had the very distinct privilege of interviewing "Mr. Jim Fairbairn", CEO of the world's largest commercial heat treater-"Bodycote". GM; “Hopefully Jim is OK, we North Americans tend to be fairly casual when it comes to the use of a first name....
Tom Flynn, Erie Steel Heat Treating 1948-2025
"Thomas P. Flynn "Gentleman Mr. Flynn" "Johnny Fights" 76 of Temperance, Michigan, passed away, Sunday, May 4, 2025, surrounded by his loving family. Tom was born on October 24 1948, in Flint, Michigan, and was the son of Philip and Helen (Koval) Flynn. Tom was a 1966 graduate from Central Catholic...
Largest US Privately Held Heat Treater To Add Location
In a story coming from an independent source but verified by Mr. Bill Jones, CEO of "Solar Atmospheres" (the largest privately owned commercial heat treater in North America) "The Monty Heat Treat News" has learned that "Solar Atmospheres" will be adding a seventh US location. The company recently...
Italian Company Adding More Heat Treat Capacity
For over 30 years "CITT Trattamenti Termici" has been offering both captive and commercial heat treating. Located in the town of Usmate Velate the firm has been part Colombo Special Fasteners since 2019 and over the past two years has made substantial investments in additional equipment and a new...
Winston Heat Treating Purchases 2 New Tempering Furnaces
"The Monty Heat Treat News" would like to share the press release below about Winston Heat Treating purchasing 2 new temper furnaces from Delta H. Below that we have a previous article about Winston Heat Treating making the list of largest commercial heat treaters in North America. Dayton, OH: ...
Vacuum Brazing, Aalberts surface technologies
Earlier this week "The Monty Heat Treat News" profiled one of the 3 locations Aalberts surface technologies’ HIP | braze | heat treatment division maintains in the Greenville, SC, USA region (https://themonty.com/aalberts-surface-technologies-invites-the-monty-heat-treat-news-to-visit/) Today we...
Plasma Nitriding Gas Compressor Cylinders, Stamping Dies & Other Cast Iron Applications by Dr. Edward Rolinski of Advanced Heat Treat Corp.
Ion (plasma) nitriding is an environmentally-friendly and safe technology allowing the treatment of ferrous alloys in a very controllable way [1-6]. The active nitrogen species are formed directly at the surface needing hardening and not in the entire vacuum chamber. Therefore, the process uses a...
Solar Atmospheres Obtains Boeing Approval for Vacuum Oil Quenching
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA is pleased to announce the approval of a critical Boeing specification for the oil quenching of alloy steels in accordance with Boeing’s specification BAC 5617. Michael Johnson, Sales Director states, “We are honored to earn this accreditation from Boeing. The...
Images of Heat Treatment, IMT Duncan, SC, USA
It is rather ironic that our "Images of Heat Treatment, SC" shows a photo of a substantial pit furnace at IMT Duncan in Duncan, South Carolina, USA when in actual fact the company is best known as the only large continous heat treater in the US state of South Carolina. Let us start at the beginning....
Large Captive Heat Treater Aquired by Timken Bearings
Recently it was announced that bearing company TImken had acquired a North Carolina, USA firm by the name of American Roller Bearing Company, a supplier of industrial bearings. In and of itself this is not especially exciting for a heat treat news website such as "The Monty Heat Treat News" however...