Don’t You Love Gear Heat Treating? SIAP/Ipsen International
For sheer variety, complexity, "high end" heat treat technology and tight tolerances you would struggle to beat the heat treating that goes into gears-any form of gears for that matter. A prime example of this would be "SIAP SPA", a member of the "Carraro Group" based in Italy-our focus today is...
Captive/Commercial Heat Treater Shows “The Monty” In House HT Department
"Gord Montgomery" of "The Monty Heat Treat News" had the opportunity just yesterday, March 18th, 2025 to see a really impressive captive/commercial heat treating facility in Dravogradu, Slovenia. Let's start at the beginning of our story; Family owned "Miheu d.o.o." located in the town...
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]
What’s It Worth? Used Furnace Pricing/North America
From time to time "The Monty Heat Treat News" plays the "What's It Worth" game where we give our readers an honest and unbiased idea about what used heat treat furnaces are selling for these days. It is a very tired cliche to say that we live in troubled times and that the future is uncertain-we...
Top 3 Global Heat Treatment News Stories For the Week of March 10th 2025
Each week "The Monty Heat Treat News" looks back on our previous weeks heat treatment news stories to see which were the most popular-this is based upon feedback from our readers, traffic on our website and social media views. What makes this interesting is that even after almost 30 years of...
World’s Largest Heat Treater-2024 Financial Results
The globe's largest commercial heat treater", UK based "Bodycote" has released their financial results for 2024, the complete results can be found at "Bodycote Results" and a brief summary from "London East Side" can be found below. We are always fascinated by "Bodycote's" financial results as it...
“Cieffe Thermal Systems” Installs “First of it’s Kind” Furnace Line
"Cieffe Thermal Systems" of Colle Umerto, Italy is one of the best-known brands in Europe for thermal processing systems. Recently Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" had the chance to spend some time with the company and this included visits to some of the firm's customers with one visit...
Heavy Equipment Component Supplier Invests in New Heat Treat Department
It is always really "cool" to see manufacturers treat heat treating with the respect it deserves as a crucial part of the manufacturing process-let us introduce you to I.M.G. S.p.A. (INDUSTRIA MECCANICA GIRARDELLO) in Italy, a company which believes in the value of quality heat treating. IMG...
Annealing Oven For Aluminum Cable Supplier
"NUTEC Bickley has just manufactured and installed an annealing oven, custom designed for processing reel-mounted compact aluminum cable. The client for this contract operates numerous plants across North, Central and South America and has a portfolio of products supplied to organizations involved...
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...
“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...