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...
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]
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...
SPS Fire Origin Still Unknown
Yesterday "The Monty Heat Treat News" had a news item about a Devastating Fireat SPS Technologies in Jenkintown, PA, USA. We mentioned this because the facility has always included a reasonably large in house heat treatment department and the fact that initial reports referred to "Heat Treat...
Massive Fire at Captive Heat Treater
From the "Philadelphia Inquirer" we have this story about a massive fire at aerospace fastener supplier "SPS Technologies"in Jenkintown, PA, USA. We mention this story as the company has a very substantial in house heat treat department although at this point in time it is unknown whether the fire...
“The Heat Treat Podcast” Talks Austempering/Martempering With Mr. Steve Metz
For some time now we have been looking forward to this episode of “The Heat Treat Podcast” in which are very articulate and enthusiastic host Mr. Carlos Torres speaks with Mr. Steve Metz of Aalberts Surface Technologies in Oshkosh, WI, USA. Steve is a fellow we have known for some time and “The...
Bearing Manufacturer Puts New Surplus Furnace Equipment on the Market
US Bearing manufacturer RBC Bearings recently put on the used furnace market an unused shaker hearth furnace line along with an associated salt bath/rinse system. Both items were installed, tested and then shut down meaning they are basically unused items. The reasons for these offerings goes back...
New “Bluewater Thermal” Batch IQ Capacity Now in Production
Earlier this year we had this news item about commercial heat treater Bluewater adding more furnace capacity at their St. Marys, PA, USA facility. We can now say that the 36" X 72" X 36" batch IQ furnace is now on line and producing parts. As a footnote to this story we can say that Bluewater has...
When to Use Nitrocarburizing / Nitriding Article written by Dr. Edward Rolinski
Nitriding has an old history of development and applications. It has been used for more than 100 years to improve wear and corrosion resistance as well as fatigue strength in many engineering components made of steels or cast irons [1-8]. This process was modified and enhanced very quickly by...
Heat Treater Continues To Expand This Time With 15 Bar Quenching Vacuum Capacity
In South America, Brazil to be exact, commercial heat treater Nitrion Do Brazil continues to expand, this time with a brand new 15 bar nitrogen quenching SECO/WARWICK vacuum furnace. Nitrion has a fascinating history which goes back to it's origins in Munich, Germany many years ago. Since it's...
Chinese Aerospace Market Booming for Furnace Builder SECO/WARWICK
According to this press release the Chinese division of furnace manufacturer SECO/Warwick is doing very well these days. In this press release you can read about how the company recently sold the 6th furnace to a Chinese customer and also read about how the Asian market is a very important one for...