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...
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...
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]
“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...
A Look Back at our List of the “15 Largest Captive Heat Treaters-North America-2024”
"15 Largest Captive Heat Treats-North America. Each year we are proud to present an industry exclusive, a list of the “15 Largest Captive Heat Treats-North America” as compiled by “The Monty Heat Treat News“. We look back a year to our list in 2024; In 2022 “The Monty Heat Treat News” published...
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...
Mr. Peter Lankes Leaves Furnace Builder IVA Schmetz
Effective October 10, 2022 long time Managing Director of German furnace builder IVA Schmetz, Mr. Heinrich Peter Lankes is no longer with the company. According to information we received on October 10 this is effective immediately. Odd timing for this announcement to be issued just as the heat...
AAM Germany/In House heat Treating
The week Starting October 10 2022, Gord Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” will be visiting a number of captive and commercial heat treaters around The Netherlands and Germany in addition to attending the HK22 Heat Treatment exhibition in Cologne, Germany. Our first visit was to a company...
Laser Heat Treatment Growing?
In June of 2018 "The Monty Heat Treat News" had the priviledge of visiting a brand new heat treat in Meadville, PA, USA a heat treat which focuces on laser heat treating. Fascinating process and we were suitably impressed and promptly forgot all about it. Well it appears that that there is growing...
Furnaces North America-The Images
The Furnaces North America (FNA) exhibition in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA is now concluded and in our rear view mirror. Our very information poll of exhibitors and visitors alike indicates that the show was a strong success, an opinion which we concur with. We offer this final pictures from the...
Natural Gas Usage and Your Carbon Footprint
Whether you agree or disagree that reducing your carbon footprint is an important issue or not these days is largely a mute point as it is a topic which keeps coming up more and more often. So with great interest we ran across an idea presented at the FNA heat treatment show this past week. Controls...