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...
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]
World’s Largest Heat Treater-2024 Financial Results
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” Installs “First of it’s Kind” Furnace Line
"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...
Heavy Equipment Component Supplier Invests in New Heat Treat Department
It is always really "cool" to see manufacturers treat heat treating with the respect it deserves as a crucial part of the manufacturing process-let us introduce you to I.M.G. S.p.A. (INDUSTRIA MECCANICA GIRARDELLO) in Italy, a company which believes in the value of quality heat treating. IMG...
Annealing Oven For Aluminum Cable Supplier
"NUTEC Bickley has just manufactured and installed an annealing oven, custom designed for processing reel-mounted compact aluminum cable. The client for this contract operates numerous plants across North, Central and South America and has a portfolio of products supplied to organizations involved...
Vacuum Heat Treater Finds Business to Be Strong
Founded in the 1970's commercial heat treater "Vacuum S.P.A." in Verdello, Italy has survived recessions, foreign wars and the ups and downs that effect all businesses and at the end of the day has continued to grow and prosper. In 2023 the company was acquired by Germany based "Haertha Hardening...
Vacuum Furnace Builder Receives Their 1,000th New Furnace Order
Furnace builder TAV just yesterday received orders for two new vacuum furnaces which means the company can now claim to have sold just over 1,000 new vacuum furnaces over the years-1,001 to be exact. The news was received by Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News"during a visit to the...
Auto Parts Maker Adds More Nitriding Capacity
Global auto parts giant Linamar continues to increase their in house heat treating capacity, this time in the form of 3 new vacuum nitriding furnaces from Germany based KGO. The furnaces have working dimensions of 48” x 72” x 48” with a weight capacity of 6,000 pounds each. The first will enter...
ThermTech Makes Substantial Investments in More Furnaces
Very recently “The Monty Heat Treat News” had this press release about commercial heat treater ThermTech of Waukesha , WI, USA making some very large investments in more heat treating capacity, we now have some photos of the equipment post installation. Waukesha, WI, August 29, 2022 Exploring the...
Seco Warwick Presents 3rd Annual Heat Treatment & Metallurgy E-Seminar
"The Monty Heat Treat News" and "SECO/WARWICK" have partnered to share Seco Warwick's 3rd Annual Heat Treatment & Metallurgy E-Seminar. Below you can find additional details about the E-Seminar as well as a link to register. SECO/WARWICK and partners will be sharing their knowledge and...
Heat Treatment Names in the News
Jim Berry/USA Heat Treating. Jim Berry recently became General Manager at commercial heat treat USA Heat Treating in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Over the years Jim has worked with other captive and commercial heat treaters in the Cleveland are including Amac Enterprises, SPS Technologies and Brite-Metal...
General Motors, Mexico Installing Vacuum Carburizing Lines
In 1981 GM started operations in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico with an assembly plant dedicated to producing 4 Chevrolet model cars with an engine plant added a year later and a transmission plant in 2008. Earlier this year according to the press release below the company announced a very substantial...
Midwestern U.S. Plant Commissions High Temperature Box Furnace For Military and Aerospace Applications
"L&L Special Furnace Company, Inc. has shipped and commissioned a large high-temperature box furnace to a Midwestern U.S. plant starting production on ceramic matrix parts that will be used in military and aerospace applications. The L&L GHH3350 has an effective work zone of 32” wide by 30”...