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...
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]
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...
Ipsen USA Announces Management Changes in Customer Service Team
Ipsen is pleased to announce the promotion of Evan Hundley to Retrofits Manager and the appointment of Lu Chouraki as Field Service Manager. Since joining Ipsen in October 2023 as a Project Manager in the Retrofits Department, Hundley has demonstrated strong leadership and a commitment to continuous...
50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters
Since 1997 "The Monty Heat Treat News" has been publishing a list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America, a list which has grown from the 10 Largest to the 50 Largest- the 2024 list can be found here; “The Monty’s” 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters 2024". April...
German Heat Treatment Facility Utterly Destroyed by Fire
Commercial heat treater SLH (Spezialnarterei Lohe GmbH & CO) was almost completely destroyed by a quench oil fire yesterday in what was a devasting fire. This is what local news reports had to say about the fire; “The cause of Saturday's major fire at a metal processing plant in Remscheid is...
World’s Largest Heat Treater Releases 2022 Interim Results
UK based Bodycote, the largest commercial heat treater has just released their 2022 Interim financial results-the full report can be found at https://www.bodycote.com/investors/ As always they give us a very clear indication of the health of the global heat treatment industry. For a summary of the...
Nickel Pricing Crashes Back to Earth-Thank Goodness!
It is with fear and trepidation that many heat treaters regard nickel pricing. Alloy furnace components and fixturing always represent a substantial cost to any heat treater and the largest factor in fluctuating pricing is due to the cost of nickel. This year has been a roller coaster ride for...
Nitrex to Install Horizontal Nitriding System
The NITREX installation base continues to grow and expand at the world’s largest aluminum extrusion profile company HYDRO. While all of the NITREX nitriding systems at HYDRO’s worldwide facilities are pit-type furnaces, the latest delivery is a horizontal furnace. The decision for this furnace...
Honeywell Approves Hot Isostatic Pressing Provider
"Paulo recently earned Honeywell approval for Hot Isostatic Pressing at the Cleveland Division. The approval which has no restrictions and covers all HIP processing was earned after completion of an onsite audit of the Cleveland plant. The Cleveland Division provides state-of-the art HIP services,...
Aerospace Company BMT Adds Commercial Heat Treat Division
BMT Aerospace of Belgium has just acquired Engineered Heat Treat in Madison Heights, Michigan, USA in a rather surprising turn of events. Engineered Heat Treat is a family owned commercial heat treat run by Ron and Greg Philbosian. Read on for all the details. “BMT AEROSPACE JULY 26, 2022; We are...