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...
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” 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...
Don’t You Love Gear Heat Treating? SIAP/Ipsen International
For sheer variety, complexity, "high end" heat treat technology and tight tolerances you would struggle to beat the heat treating that goes into gears-any form of gears for that matter. A prime example of this would be "SIAP SPA", a member of the "Carraro Group" based in Italy-our focus today is...
Captive/Commercial Heat Treater Shows “The Monty” In House HT Department
"Gord Montgomery" of "The Monty Heat Treat News" had the opportunity just yesterday, March 18th, 2025 to see a really impressive captive/commercial heat treating facility in Dravogradu, Slovenia. Let's start at the beginning of our story; Family owned "Miheu d.o.o." located in the town...
What’s It Worth? Used Furnace Pricing/North America
From time to time "The Monty Heat Treat News" plays the "What's It Worth" game where we give our readers an honest and unbiased idea about what used heat treat furnaces are selling for these days. It is a very tired cliche to say that we live in troubled times and that the future is uncertain-we...
Top 3 Global Heat Treatment News Stories For the Week of March 10th 2025
Each week "The Monty Heat Treat News" looks back on our previous weeks heat treatment news stories to see which were the most popular-this is based upon feedback from our readers, traffic on our website and social media views. What makes this interesting is that even after almost 30 years of...
ION HEAT Sells Plasma Nitriding Furnace To ZF
"ION HEAT presents its latest GlowTech 1220, a pulsed plasma nitriding furnace manufactured for ZF India (Wabco), a well-known manufacturer of commercial vehicles in logistics and public transport. It is a highly efficient and precise equipment for the nitriding of crankshafts and truck parts, with...
Furnaces North America
“The Monty Heat Treat News” continues with our live coverage of the ongoing 2022 “Furnaces North America” exhibition in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. In these photos we endeavour to give you a feel for what is the first successful heat treat show in North America in 3 years. Did you like this...
Why Is the Entire Team at Furnace Builder “CAN-ENG” So Happy?
So why does everybody at furnace builder CAN-ENG look so happy? Because they just read the October 2022 issue of "The Monty Heat Treat News" magazine and they now know the latest news and trends in the global heat treatment industry. Want to be as happy as CAN-ENG? We would suggest this link to the...
Images of North America
We are very proud to be able to show our readers a number of photos of the ongoing Furnaces North America event being held in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. ‘The Monty Heat Treat News” plans on several more on an ongoing basis. Did you like this article? Click here to subscribe to The Monty. View our...
Heat Treatment Industry Rumors
“The Monty Heat Treat News” is currently at the largest Heat treat industry event in North America in 2022, Furnaces North America in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Attendance is expected to be great and as expected lots of interesting stories about the industry are surfacing. To start off let’s follow...
“The Monty Heat Treat News” Visits Furnace Builder CAN-ENG
Recently Mr. Tim Donofrio, Vice President of Sales for furnace builder CAN-ENG extended an invitation to “The Monty Heat Treat News” to see several furnace projects which the company is getting close to completing. Needless to say we jumped at the opportunity and the end result are these photos and...