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...
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]
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...
Vacuum Heat Treater Finds Business to Be Strong
Founded in the 1970's commercial heat treater "Vacuum S.P.A." in Verdello, Italy has survived recessions, foreign wars and the ups and downs that effect all businesses and at the end of the day has continued to grow and prosper. In 2023 the company was acquired by Germany based "Haertha Hardening...
Vacuum Furnace Builder Receives Their 1,000th New Furnace Order
Furnace builder TAV just yesterday received orders for two new vacuum furnaces which means the company can now claim to have sold just over 1,000 new vacuum furnaces over the years-1,001 to be exact. The news was received by Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News"during a visit to 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...
Bodycote Remains Globe’s Largest Heat Treater
“The Monty Heat Treat News” has completed their 26th annual list North Americas largest commercial heat treaters-the 2022 ranking can be found at 50 Largest Commercial Heat Treats in North America | The Monty. It is no surprise to anybody that UK based Bodycote remains the largest in North America...