Ohio, USA Metal Processing Company to Temporarily Slow Down/Halt Production
Founded in 1951 "AMAC Enterprises Inc." is part of a very rare breed, a firm which offers heat treating, phosphating, packaging and electroplating of fasteners and stampings-all in one location. As a matter of fact it is such a rare breed that we know of only one other company in North America which...
Carburizing of Large Gears / Haerterei Reese-Our Most Recent Advertiser
Fascinating place "Haerterei Reese" in that they can heat treat some of the largest gears in the world. This article was published after a visit by "The Monty Heat Treat News" just a few months ago. We are proud to say that the company is our most recent advertiser, their banner ad can be found on...
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]
“The Monty Heat Treat News” April 2025 Edition
The April 2025 edition of "The Monty Heat Treats News" has almost 100 pages of the most up to date news and trends from the North American and European heat treatment markets. Some of our top stories include these include these from the USA, Italy and Slovenia; "The Heat Treat Podcast" speaks...
“TAVENGINEERING” A Giant in Vacuum Furnace Servicing
March 26th "The Monty Heat Treat News" looked closely at one of the larger vacuum furnace builders in the world "Furnace Builder “TAV” Lands Order# 1,001-“The Monty” Visits". In this article we mentioned in passing their sister company "TAVENGINEERING"-we are now in a position to offer a few more...
ECM Mexico
The Mexico heat treatment industry has a new vacuum furnace supplier entity – ECM Mexico, doing business as MEXVAC ECM, S.A. DE C.V., a subsidiary of ECM USA, Inc. The ECM Mexico team, consisting of Juan Cruz (Operations Manager Mexico), José López (Field Service & PLC Engineer), led by...
“The Heat Treat Podcast” Talks “Retrofits & Upgrades”
Today our handsome and eloquent host "Mr. Carlos Torres" talks with a heat treat industry legend, "Mr. Don Longenette". Don brings a lifetime of experience into his discussion about heat treat retrofits, upgrades and the importance of training the next generation. Did you like this article? Click...
“The Heat Treat Recruiter” Talks About Resumes in the Heat Treat Industry
Once a quarter, Managing Recruiter, Josh Hale and/or Sr. Recruiter, Jessica Maier, will address questions that come up regularly from industry professionals (email questions for future editions to [email protected]). Recently, Josh and Jessica have been approached by several...
More Manufacturers Bringing Heat Treat In-House-Comments
Friday, March 28th, 2025 we had an article entitled; "More Manufacturers Bringing Heat Treat In-House?" The article by "Mr. Marco Baretti, Sales Area Manager, TAV VACUUM FURNACES SPA" proved to be of a great deal of interest to a number of our readers, as an example on LinkedIn alone it has garnered...
Improved Cooling Rates in Fluidized-Bed Systems
Our friends at “Industrial Heating Magazine” just published an article written by Andreas Guderjahn of Schwing Technologies, a company offering a patented fluidized bed technology. The article can be found at Industrial Heating | Thermal processing technical journal covering heat treating, &...
What to Consider When Bringing Heat Treat In House
(originally posted March 2021) KROHNE is a world-leading manufacturer and supplier of solutions in industrial process instrumentation. Within the UK, KROHNE Ltd is the group’s global centre of excellence for Coriolis mass flowmeter technology. Its manufacturing plant in Wellingborough is where the...
Obsidian Technical Group
"We are excited to announce the newest group to join the metals heat treating and materials processing industry. Obsidian Technical Group, LLC (Obsidian) was started earlier this year by Jason and Eric Jossart, best known for founding Atmosphere Engineering, a premier sensors manufacturer and...
This Year’s Recipient of The William Hunt Eisenman Award is Dr. Valery Rudnev
"Dr. Valery Rudnev is the Director of Science & Technology (retired) at Inductoheat, Inc., an Inductotherm Group Company. He is considered by many as one of the leading global figures in the induction heating and heat-treating industry. Dr. Rudnev has more than 40 years of experience and is...
McLaughlin Furnace Group/Rhode Announce New Salt Recovery Project
Earlier this year "The Monty Heat Treat News" announced that US furnace builder McLaughlin Furnace Group and German furnace company Rohde Schutzgasoefen had come to an agreement on working together. Today we have this joint press release from the two companies about a new project; NOVEMBER 4, 2022;...
Supply Chain Issues Continue to Plague Heat Treatment Industry
The heat treatment industry is certainly not alone in experiencing the challenges brought about by inflation, disruptions in the global supply chain, rising energy costs and labor market issues. This is reflected in the fact that pricing for virtually everything has increased along with delivery...













