“TAVENGINEERING” A Giant in Vacuum Furnace Servicing
March 26th "The Monty Heat Treat News" looked closely at one of the larger vacuum furnace builders in the world "Furnace Builder “TAV” Lands Order# 1,001-“The Monty” Visits". In this article we mentioned in passing their sister company "TAVENGINEERING"-we are now in a position to offer a few more...
ECM Mexico
The Mexico heat treatment industry has a new vacuum furnace supplier entity – ECM Mexico, doing business as MEXVAC ECM, S.A. DE C.V., a subsidiary of ECM USA, Inc. The ECM Mexico team, consisting of Juan Cruz (Operations Manager Mexico), José López (Field Service & PLC Engineer), led by...
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 Heat Treat Podcast” Talks “Retrofits & Upgrades”
Today our handsome and eloquent host "Mr. Carlos Torres" talks with a heat treat industry legend, "Mr. Don Longenette". Don brings a lifetime of experience into his discussion about heat treat retrofits, upgrades and the importance of training the next generation. Did you like this article? Click...
“The Heat Treat Recruiter” Talks About Resumes in the Heat Treat Industry
Once a quarter, Managing Recruiter, Josh Hale and/or Sr. Recruiter, Jessica Maier, will address questions that come up regularly from industry professionals (email questions for future editions to [email protected]). Recently, Josh and Jessica have been approached by several...
More Manufacturers Bringing Heat Treat In-House-Comments
Friday, March 28th, 2025 we had an article entitled; "More Manufacturers Bringing Heat Treat In-House?" The article by "Mr. Marco Baretti, Sales Area Manager, TAV VACUUM FURNACES SPA" proved to be of a great deal of interest to a number of our readers, as an example on LinkedIn alone it has garnered...
“The Monty” Talks Heating Elements With “Mr. Steve Bennett” of “Industrial Furnace Interiors & US Element”
We are very excited today to be talking heating elements with "Mr. Steve Bennett", of "Industrial Furnace Interiors" of Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA. Steve, I understand that you are a family-owned business-as part of a family-owned business myself I have to say that I have a real affinity for...
More Manufacturers Bringing Heat Treat In-House?
Over the past few years the team at "The Monty Heat Treat News"has noticed a slow but steady trend amongst European manufacturers to bring more of their heat treatment requirements in house, this pereception was reinforceed during a recent visit by "Gord Montgomery" to several European captive heat...
A Look Back at a US Heat Treat Acquisition
Almost exactly one year ago it was announced that "Kittyhawk" had Acquried the Albany, Oregon "HIP" division of Stack Metallurgical in the US To commemorate the one year anniversary Kittyhawk issued this update about the acquisition and the individuals responsible for this successful facility; ...
Michel Frison, Nitrex-Say It’s Not So
It is seldom that an individual leaves the heat treatment industry for something completely unrelated-perhaps this is a testament to what a close knit, family oriented industry we are lucky enough to be involved with. However it would appear that Mr. Michal Frison who was Global Vice President of...
Aalberts Surface Technologies Adds More Vacuum Furnace Capacity
Aalberts Surface Technologies is ranked by "The Monty Heat Treat News" as one of the largest commercial heat treaters both in the world and in North America...
“The Monty Heat Treat News”, September 2022 Edition
The link below will take you to the September 2022 edition of “The Monty Heat Treat News”, for over 25 years the best known media name in the heat treatment industry. https://fliphtml5.com/gvbzt/kjac First Ever Hip Cycle for the Aerospace Industry in Mexico Finding & Retaining Good People in the...
“Vacuum & Atmoshere Services” (VAS) UK Continues to Grow at a Frantic Pace
My does this UK provider of heat treatment furnace support continue to grow at an amazing pace. According to this press release the company has agreed to work with German furnace builder "Nabertherm" and quickly landed an order from Sigma Precison Components for a new furnace system. Want to know...
Kanthal Heating Elements No Longer Part of Sandvik
A well known name in the electrical heating element world is that of Kanthal, a Swedish based company which is part of industrial giant Sandvik-we will correct that to say it was part of Sandvik but is no longer. This press release gives the...
Jason Jossart, Atmosphere Engineering-Where Are They Now?
Going back roughly 20 years Jason Jossart (who was with Waukee Flowmeters at the time) had a better idea-an idea which lead to him forming Atmosphere Engineering Company of Wisconsin, USA. The idea of course was the "Endoinjector" a truly brilliant idea which matched the output of an endothermic gas...