Fastener Manufacturers “Ditches” In House Heat Treat-Outsources Work
"Commercial Spring & Tool Company Ltd." in Ontario, Canada has since 1973 been producing a wide variety of fasteners, stampings and clips, many of which are destined for the automotive market. During this time the firm has largely done their austempering in house, originally in a variety of mesh...
Aerospace Supplier Grows Vacuum Heat Treatment Capabilities
"A firm which supplies metal injection molded components for the aviation industry has added to its production capabilities with a vacuum furnace. This solution will increase the capacity to provide hardening process services while meeting aviation standards required by the industry. 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]
Another USA Commercial Heat Treater Closes it’s Doors
In a relatively strong economy, it is a puzzler to the team at "The Monty Heat Treat News" why so many North American commercial heat treaters are closing their doors. At last count 2 in Canada have closed recently with at least 4 in Ohio having recently announced planned closings with 2 more to...
Captive Heat Treater Receiving Substantial Investment
For a number of years "The Monty Heat Treat News" has offered a heat treatment industry exclusive-a list of the “15 Largest Single Location Captive Heat Treats in North America”, it now appears that one of the locations on the list will be receiving a very substantial investment. Located in...
Largest Commercial Heat Treats-How Big is the Pie?
April 5th, 2025 "The Monty Heat Treat News" will be offering our updated list of the "50 largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters" (the 2024 List can be found "Here"). This list prompts the obvious question-how big is the North America commercial heat treat pie? In other words what is the...
Top Heat Treatment News Items Week of February 17th
Each week the "Monty Heat Treat News" looks back at our heat treatment stories from the week before and comes up with a list of the 3 most popular based upon reader feedback, website visits and social media posts. For the week starting February 17th, 2025 it would appear that heat treating of brake...
AICHELIN and Bodycote
"After entering the vacuum heat treatment Vacuum Furnace market segment in the middle of last year, AICHELIN recently successfully delivered a vacuum furnace to the plant of one of the leading heat treatment and specialist service providers for thermal processes, Bodycote, in Vantaa (Finland). The...
Captive/ Commercial Heat Treater Completes New Furnace Install
Captive/Commercial heat treater RAMADA ACOS in Ovar, Portugal has been mentioned by "The Monty Heat Treat News" several times over the years, including this summary of the company in 2021; "NOVEMBER 2021; Ramada ACOS is a captive/commercial heat treater located in the northern part of Portugal in...
Captive Heat Treater PWR Receives NADCAP Accreditation-Plans on Adding More Heat Treatment
PWR Advanced Cooling Technology based in Ormeau, Australia is a high end supplier of heat exchangers. While based in Australia the firm also has facilities in the UK and the USA. PWR is rightfully very proud of the fact that they just received NADCAP Accreditation for both their chemical processing...
Ion Nitriding of Long Parts – Written By Edward Rolinski, aka Doctor Glow
Surface hardening of steel components and tools by nitriding allows for the formation of a very hard layer needed for enhancing their tribological, as well as corrosive, properties without affecting dimensional stability of the products [1-3]. This is especially important and beneficial when the...
Applied Process-The End of an Era
In 2019 one of the more interesting commercial heat treaters in North America, Applied Process was acquired by Aalberts Industries of the Netherlands (the press release announcing the acquisition is below). Applied Process (which was started by the Keough family of AFC-Holcroft fame) is a very...
“The Monty Heat Treat New”-August 2022 Edition.
The August 2022 digital edition of "The Monty Heat Treat News" magazine is now available on line at https://fliphtml5.com/gvbzt/vezw "The Monty Heat Treat News" was first published in 1997 making this our 25th of publication. We are very proud to say that over that time period we have grown to...
The Monty Heat Treat News-Finding and Retaining Good People
The #1 issue in the global heat treatment industry these days is finding and retaining good people. In an effort to find out how this was affecting the industry we went to an expert, Mr. Josh Hale of International Search Partners, the foremost recruiting firm in the heat treat field. This is what...
ECM Installing Vacuum Carburizing System in Italy
Furnace builder ECM based in Grenoble, France is in the process of installing a new vacuum carburizing system at a commercial heat treater in Verdello, Italy. HAERTHA Hardening Industries Locations - Härterei HÄRTHA GROUP (haertha.de) has 10 locations around Europe which include facilities in...