THE MONTY HEAT TREAT NEWS

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...

"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...

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...

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...

The globe's largest commercial heat treater", UK based "Bodycote" has released their financial results for 2024, the complete results can be found at "Bodycote Results" and a brief summary from "London East Side" can be found below.   We are always fascinated by "Bodycote's" financial results as it...

"Cieffe Thermal Systems" of Colle Umerto, Italy is one of the best-known brands in Europe for thermal processing systems. Recently Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" had the chance to spend some time with the company and this included visits to some of the firm's customers with one visit...

Today we are pleased to off this interview with Mr. Aad Hersbach, Director of commercial heat treatment company "Dominial" of the Netherlands. Dominial has a very interesting claim to fame and that is that they have some of the largest pit carburizing furnaces in all of Europe. Aad while I have not...

We start off mentioning that long time heat treater Roger Lupien is no longer with Precision Thermal Processing in Clintonville, WI. Roger is quite a well know fellow in the North American commercial heat treating industry having spent a number of years with PTP and before that Nitrex. Precision...

"The Metal Treating Institute, producer of Furnaces North America 2022 is excited to announce that pre-show attendance has exceeded over 1,000 total attendees.  With onsite registrations, the show is expected to go over the 1,200 mark.  FNA 2022 is being held Oct. 3-5 (next week) in Indianapolis,...

Furnaces North America (FNA 2022), the largest North American heat treating event of 2022 is being held next week, October 3-5th in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. According to a press release we received from the organizers, MTI (Metal Treating Institute) pre show attendance has now exceeded, 1,000...

"Dear Gord, I wanted to extend an offer to you and your team to visit us here at CAN-ENG so that we can share with you what’s new. Although the recent pandemic years have brought a multitude of challenges to our industry, CAN-ENG has been resilient, developed alternate strategies to overcome these...

For over 60 years an auto parts maker in Lebanon, TN, USA has been producing automotive parts and heat treating them in house. The current owner Germany based ZF North America announced in December of 2021 that the plant would be closing for good in 2022 and that is indeed what happened. The very...