“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...
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]
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...
“The Monty” Talks Heating Elements With “Mr. Steve Bennett” of “Industrial Furnace Interiors & US Element”
We are very excited today to be talking heating elements with "Mr. Steve Bennett", of "Industrial Furnace Interiors" of Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA. Steve, I understand that you are a family-owned business-as part of a family-owned business myself I have to say that I have a real affinity for...
More Manufacturers Bringing Heat Treat In-House?
Over the past few years the team at "The Monty Heat Treat News"has noticed a slow but steady trend amongst European manufacturers to bring more of their heat treatment requirements in house, this pereception was reinforceed during a recent visit by "Gord Montgomery" to several European captive heat...
Bodycote Appoints Steven Campbell VP Automotive, NA
Heat treating giant Bodycote The leading provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services worldwide – Bodycote plc has just appointed Mr. Steven John Campbell to the position of Vice President, Automotive, North America. Previous to this John was Bodycote Country Manager...
Watlow® Completes Acquisition of Eurotherm®
June 8th of this year it was announced that controls company Watlow would be acquiring Eurotherm from Schneider Electric Company®. The deal was concluded and announce Wednesday of this week. Both companies are well known in the heat treatment industry. “11/2/22 St. Louis, MO – Watlow®, a designer...
“Hubbard-Hall” Acquires “Torch Surface Technologies”
Hubbard-Hall a name known in the heat treatment industry for their chemical line announces that they have acquired “Torch Surface Technologies” a supplier of lubricants for the metal forming industry; “Torch Surface Technologies is now a Division of Hubbard-Hall Inc.; Waterbury, CT – Hubbard-Hall...
Fascinating Heat Treats “Heat Treatment 2000”
From time to time "The Monty Heat Treat News" scrolls through our extensive archive of pictures and profiles an interesting (fascinating) captive heat treatment facility, a unique industry supplier or a commercial heat treat. Today we look at a commercial heat treater in the USK which we have had...
Wall Colmonoy Announces $2.5 Million Modernization at Los Lunas, New Mexico Plant
"Wall Colmonoy is pleased to announce a $2.5 million modernization plan at their Alloy Products plant located in Los Lunas, New Mexico. The plan aims to increase capacity, improve processes, and add new capabilities. The investment includes upgrades to plant infrastructure and environment, alloy...
All Quiet on the Nickel Front
This graph will bring joy to every heat treaters heart-we promise. What you are looking at is the spot market price for nickel in terms of dollars per pound over the past year. Aside from a wicked spike in March of this year pricing has remained fairly stable, hovering in the $10.00 USD/pound range...