Why Heat Treatment Partnerships Matter in Aerospace by “Vanessa Pfeiffer”
Why Heat Treatment Partnerships Matter in Aerospace by “Vanessa Pfeiffer” (About the author; Vanessa Pfeiffer is Director of Strategic Market Development for Aerospace & Defence at Bodycote. She is responsible for identifying and accelerating strategic growth opportunities across the aerospace and defence sector, working closely with…
USA Heat Treater Now “ITAR” Registered
USA Heat Treater Now “ITAR” Registered ( Texas Heat Treating is a family owned commercial heat treater which will be on “The Monty’s” list of the “52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters” which will be published the week of June 29th) “June 2026; Texas Heat Treating is pleased to announce that the company is now registered with the…
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]
Two Vacuum Induction Melting Furnaces Ordered From SECO
Two Vacuum Induction Melting Furnaces Ordered From SECO “A partner has purchased two VIM furnaces. The first is the JetCaster VIM50 EQ vacuum induction furnace for melting and producing castings using the EQ method. The second is the JetCaster device for melting and producing castings using directional solidification, single crystal, equiaxed…
Vac Aero Expanding Into The USA?
Vac Aero Expanding Into The USA? “The Monty Heat Treat News” just posted a heat treat industry exclusive in the form of a list of the “The 52 Largest Commercial Heat Treaters in North America” based upon estimated sales for 2025. Amongst those on our list was “Vac Aero International” -the largest commercial heat treater in Canada and also a…
IHK Elects First Female President: Hanau’s Natasha Rohde Chosen as New Leader
IHK Elects First Female President: Hanau’s Natasha Rohde Chosen as New Leader To go with this press release we have this photo taken at the HK 2024 Heat Treat Exhibition in Cologne, Germany October of 2024. We see (from the left) Gord Montgomery, Natasha Rohde, Joern Rohde and in the front row Konstantine Rohde. “In a historic move,…
New Nitriding Installation Mexico
New Nitriding Installation Mexico In Mexico, commercial heat treater HT-MX has just added a new gas nitriding system provided by “Nitrex”. Humberto Ramos of the company has this to say; “This equipment expands our capabilities for nitriding and FNC processes, with a load capacity of up to 2,600 lbs, as part of an investment close to 1M USD to…
“Top 52” Heat Treater Expanding
“Top 52” Heat Treater Expanding In our recent “Industry Exclusive” list of the “52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters” ranked by estimated 2025 sales we included for the first time ever a company by the name of “Vacu Braze” in Quakertown, PA, USA. After publishing the list, we learned that the firm has been making some…
Solar Manufacturing Delivers Upgraded Ipsen VFC-924 Hot Zone to Leading Aerospace Manufacturer
Solar Manufacturing Delivers Upgraded Ipsen VFC-924 Hot Zone to Leading Aerospace Manufacturer Solar Manufacturing recently shipped a replacement Ipsen VFC-924 hot zone to a prominent U.S.-based global aerospace company. This customer performs thermal processing on a variety of critical aerospace components used across multiple aircraft…
Ion Nitriding of Long Parts – Written By Edward Rolinski, aka Doctor Glow
Ion Nitriding of Long Parts – Written By Edward Rolinski, aka Doctor Glow Surface hardening of steel components and tools by nitriding allows for the formation of a very hard layer needed for enhancing their tribological, as well as corrosive, properties without affecting dimensional stability of the products [1-3]. This is especially…
Applied Process-The End of an Era
Applied Process-The End of an Era In 2019 one of the more interesting commercial heat treaters in North America, Applied Process was acquired by Aalberts Industries of the Netherlands (the press release announcing the acquisition is below). Applied Process (which was started by the Keough family of AFC-Holcroft fame) is a very unique operation in…
“The Monty Heat Treat New”-August 2022 Edition.
“The Monty Heat Treat New”-August 2022 Edition. The August 2022 digital edition of ” The Monty Heat Treat News ” magazine is now available on line at https://fliphtml5.com/gvbzt/vezw ” The Monty Heat Treat News” was first published in 1997 making this our 25th of publication. We are very proud to say that over that time period we have…
The Monty Heat Treat News-Finding and Retaining Good People
The Monty Heat Treat News-Finding and Retaining Good People The #1 issue in the global heat treatment industry these days is finding and retaining good people. In an effort to find out how this was affecting the industry we went to an expert, Mr. Josh Hale of International Search Partners, the foremost recruiting firm in the heat treat field….
ECM Installing Vacuum Carburizing System in Italy
ECM Installing Vacuum Carburizing System in Italy Furnace builder ECM based in Grenoble, France is in the process of installing a new vacuum carburizing system at a commercial heat treater in Verdello, Italy. HAERTHA Hardening Industries Locations – Härterei HÄRTHA GROUP (haertha.de) has 10 locations around Europe which include facilities in…
German Heat Treatment Facility Utterly Destroyed by Fire
German Heat Treatment Facility Utterly Destroyed by Fire Commercial heat treater SLH (Spezialnarterei Lohe GmbH & CO) was almost completely destroyed by a quench oil fire yesterday in what was a devasting fire. This is what local news reports had to say about the fire; “The cause of Saturday’s major fire at a metal processing plant in…