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...
Machine Tool Builder Adds Second Nitriding Furnace
"The YAZICI TRANSFER MAKINA company decided to add a second NITREX turnkey nitrocarburizing system to its Istanbul facility as a way to increase the manufacturing capacity of tooling and machinery components for the company's precision CNC machines. It started production with the new system in the...
Solar Atmospheres-One of the Largest Commercial Heat Treaters in North America
As we work towards our updated list of the "50 Largest Commercial Heat Treaters in North America-2022" we look at one company, Solar Atmospheres, headquartered in Souderton, PA, USA who has made our list every single year for the past 25 years. In our 2021 ranking we had this summary about the...
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #10 Advanced Heat Treat Corp
Since 1999 “The Monty” has been publishing annually a list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America based upon annual sales, our 2021 list can be found at https://themonty.com/project/50-largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treats-2021-2/ This year readers will see we became...
MTI Turning Crystal Ball Into Clarity Through Collaboration
"If you are like most heat treaters, captive or commercial, the last 24 months have been some of the most challenging times in our history of being in business. Lost sales, increased costs, and a lack of qualified employees have plagued everyone in the heat treating industry. The good news is the...
Why Is Captive Heat Treater Sutton Tools in Australia so Happy?
So why are the fellows at Sutton Tools in Thomastown, Australia delirious with happiness? Because they just read the June 2022 issue of "The Monty Heat Treat News" and they now know all the latest news and trends in the global heat treatment industry. Want to be as happy as Sutton Tools-you can find...
Solar Atmospheres Successful Vacuum Oil Quench Commissioning
"A newly designed Vacuum Oil Quench (VOQ) furnace, purchased by Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, recently entered into full production after passing a vigorous start up protocol. The initial temperature uniformity survey, compliant to AMS 2750 F, produced +/- 10°F results at all setpoints. Most...