USA Investment in New Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) Vessel
USA Investment in New Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) Vessel (Editors Note; While it is not mentioned in this press release the new vessel is being built by “American Isostatic Presses Inc”. of Ohio. “Kittyhawk Inc has placed an order for a new Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) vessel for installation at its Garden Grove, California, USA, facility. The…
Heat Treatment Industry “Names in the News”
Heat Treatment Industry “Names in the News” On a regular basis “The Monty Heat Treat News” informs the industry about individuals in the industry making career changes-promotions, retirements, changes in direction-these are the individuals who make our headline for Friday, June 19th 2026; Steven Sumner Retiring; Steven has spent most of his…
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]
North American Heat Treater Acquired
North American Heat Treater Acquired There is certainly a raft of changes happening in the North American commercial heat treatment industry these days-a quick search of our pages reveals that over 10 shops have closed in the past year with at least a half dozen acquisitions in just the past few months. The most recent acquisition involves a…
Furnacare (TAV Vacuum Furnace) Appoints New Sales Manager
Furnacare (TAV Vacuum Furnace) Appoints New Sales Manager Furnacare, the North American division of TAV Vacuum Furnaces of Italy, responsible for Sales and Service in the USA, Canada and Mexico has just appointed Mr. Jay Jefsen as Director of Sales replacing Mr. Jan Massholder who is no longer with the company. Jay Jefsen brings with him a world…
Acquisition in the Mexican Heat Treat Industry
Acquisition in the Mexican Heat Treat Industry Earlier this week, Monday June 2 to be exact “The Monty Heat Treat News” in an industry exclusive announced that one of the largest commercial heat treaters in Mexico had made a “Very Significant Acquisition”. “Especialidades Termicas, S.A” (ETSA Group) is a family owned commercial heat treater…
“The Monty Heat Treat News” July 2025 Edition
“The Monty Heat Treat News” July 2025 Edition The link below will take you to the July 2025 digital edition of “The Monty Heat Treat News”-for almost 30 years bringing you the most up to date news and trends in the global heat treatment industry. In this issue you will find that the news mirrors the uncertain nature of the global…
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𝐕𝐀𝐂 𝐀𝐄𝐑𝐎 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐩𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 “VAC AERO is proud to welcome M S Ganesh to our Furnace Manufacturing Division. Ganesh brings over 40 years of expertise in the vacuum furnace industry, along with a deep passion for delivering advanced material solutions to customers worldwide. He is the founder of…
Metal Forming Company Adds New Vacuum Furnace
Metal Forming Company Adds New Vacuum Furnace Since 1961 “Precision Metal Forming Company” in Williamsport, PA has been offering custom flow formed metal parts and components for a variety of industry. The company has always believed in doing most operations in house and this includes heat treatment. When the company decided to add capacity to…
Laser Heat Treatment Growing?
Laser Heat Treatment Growing? In June of 2018 ” The Monty Heat Treat News ” had the priviledge of visiting a brand new heat treat in Meadville, PA, USA a heat treat which focuces on laser heat treating. Fascinating process and we were suitably impressed and promptly forgot all about it. Well it appears that that there is growing interest in laser…
Furnaces North America-The Images
Furnaces North America-The Images The Furnaces North America (FNA) exhibition in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA is now concluded and in our rear view mirror. Our very information poll of exhibitors and visitors alike indicates that the show was a strong success, an opinion which we concur with. We offer this final pictures from the show. Did you like…
Natural Gas Usage and Your Carbon Footprint
Natural Gas Usage and Your Carbon Footprint Whether you agree or disagree that reducing your carbon footprint is an important issue or not these days is largely a mute point as it is a topic which keeps coming up more and more often. So with great interest we ran across an idea presented at the FNA heat treatment show this past week. Controls…
USA Furnace Builder up For Sale
USA Furnace Builder up For Sale So who is the US based furnace builder which is up for sale? Over the course of the past week all of the major furnace builders in the US have received an e mail about a US builder of furnaces which is up for sale. The basic information suggests that this company is in the US Northeast, has sales of over $20…
Polish Heat Treater Adds New Nitriding System
Polish Heat Treater Adds New Nitriding System “P.W.P.T. POSTEOR Sp. z o. o has bought a turnkey nitriding system from NITREX for the first time for its manufacturing plant in Elbląg, Poland. The customer had previously outsourced the nitriding of stainless-steel power generation parts to a commercial heat treatment services provider before…
Commercial Heat Treater Takes Delivery of 1st of 3 New Vacuum Furnaces
Commercial Heat Treater Takes Delivery of 1st of 3 New Vacuum Furnaces In the UK, Wallwork Heat Treatment one of the largest commercial heat treaters in the country has just taken delivery of a new vacuum furnace, the first of 3 to be exact. The furnace was provided by Rubig of Austria and it just arrived at one of Wallwork’s UK facilities…