Furnace Builder “TAV” Lands Order# 1,001-“The Monty” Visits
March 10th, 2025 "The Monty Heat Treat News" had a story about vacuum furnace builder "TAV" landing an order for their "1,001st New Vacuum Furnace"-we learned this very interesting fact during a visit to the firm's headquarters in Bergamo, Italy (close to Milano, Italy). During a very interesting...
Massive Fire at Captive Heat Treater Still Under Investigation
February 19th of this year manufacturer and captive heat treater SPS Technologies in Jenkintown, PA suffered a "Devasting Fire" . The question on everybody's lips in a case like this is what was the cause of the fire? According to this story from "WHYY" News the cause has still not be determined...
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]
European Heat Treater Installs Plasma Nitriding System
March 11th of this year "Gord Montgomery" of "The Monty Heat Treat News" had the opportunity to visit commercial heat treater "Vacuum S.P.A." in Verdello, Italy-the visit resulted in an article entitled; "Vacuum Heat Treater Finds Business to Be Strong". Just after this visit the company issued this...
“Substantial” US Heat Treater to Close April 1/2025
Commercial heat treater "American Steel Treating" of Perrysburg, Ohio, USA has been included on our list of the "50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters" a number of times over the years. Very unfortunately the privately owned firm will join a long list of North American commercial heat...
Furnace Builder “Thrives” Over the Past 8 Years
Founded in 2015 by 3 individuals with a lifetime of experience in the heat treat industry, furnace builder "MEAPFORNI" of Fontanafredda, Italy has thrived over the years. The firm delivered it's first furnace in 2017 and can now boast that it has installed over 100 furnaces in the past 8 years with...
World’s Largest Nitrider?
Recently the commercial heat treating division of "Nitrex" had a press release about installing what is quite possibly the " Largest Nitriding Furnace in North America", a picture of which can be found here; With working dimensions of 4.5 meters (13.5') in diameter X 3.5 meters (10.5') in depth...
“The Monty” Tours Heat Treat Featuring “Roller Hearth Furnaces”
Our previous news item for today, Monday, March 24 referenced a company by the name of "T.T.N." the largest commercial heat treater in Italy, this news item summarizes the second largest commercial heat treater in the country, "PROTERM Trattamenti Termici" . Founded in 1973 the company over the...
“The Monty” Visits One of the World’s Largest Furnace Builders
Next week "The Monty Heat Treat News" will have a number of very interesting news items from around the world including a mention about another USA commercial heat treat closing, a story about one of the largest commercial heat treaters in Italy and an in depth report about a visit "Gord...
Hanomag Heat Treatment-Top Ten Heat Treat Europe
“The Monty Heat Treat News” was fortunate enough to be able to visit this week one of the 10 largest commercial heat treaters in Europe, Hanomag based in Hannover, Germany. https://themonty.com/project/largest-european-commercial-heat-treaters/ Our visit this week took us to the headquarters in...
SBS Sells 2 Monster Heat Exchangers To A Company In The North East USA
SBS Corporation has delivered two identical 35’ L x 8’ W x 5.5’ H, 7 fan units to a customer located in the North East. These monster heat exchangers have a dry weight of 16,000 lbs and are capable of heat rejection up to 5 million BTU/hr. Take a look at the pictures below of a unit being moved...
HK 22 Heat Treat Exhibition, Cologne, Germany
We are now attending the HK 22 heat treatment show in Cologne, Germany and the burning question on everybody’s lips is; what will attendance be like? We spoke with the organizer of the event, Ms. Sonja Mueller of AWT and she stated that to date there are roughly 1500 registered attendees and they...
Dominial Heat Treat Update
Earlier this week "The Monty Heat Treat News" visited Dominial Heat Treat. This may sound familiar because we just recently had an interview with the director of commercial heat treat Aad Hersbach which can be found by clicking the following link...
The Birth Of Solar Manufacturing
On October 2nd, 2002, a mere twenty years ago, William R. Jones re-entered the vacuum furnace manufacturing business with the birth of Solar Manufacturing, Inc. Solar Mfg joined the Solar Atmospheres Family of Companies! We started out at 164 Keystone Drive in Telford, PA with about 7,500 SF of shop...
Vacuum specialist Leybold UK shortlisted for Composites UK 2022 Industry Awards
UK, October 2022 - Leybold UK, based in Chessington, UK, has made it onto the shortlist for the Composites UK 2022 Industry Awards in the Social Impact category. The industry association aims to recognise those companies whose results improve people's lives and support society. The award honours...