Nitrex Lands Order From Aluminum Extrusion Supplier
"Enhancing Automotive Aluminum Extrusions with Nitrex System; To meet the automotive industry’s growing demand for high-quality extrusions, a European manufacturer specializing in profiles for the automotive sector has integrated a Nitrex nitriding system into their production process. This addition...
World’s Most Popular Internal Quench Vacuum Furnace?
Furnace builder Ipsen, the "Largest New Furnace Builder" in North America is quite rightly very proud of the fact that their popular "Turbotreater" line of vacuum furnace iss celebrating 40 years of production. This piqued the interest of the team at "The Monty" and prompted us to find out how many...
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]
Nitrex Names New Plant Manager
Commercial heat treater Nitrex who regularly appears on "The Monty Heat Treat News" list of the "50 largest Commercial Heat Treaters in North America" has just named a new Plant Manager for their facility in Franklin, Indiana, USA. Mr. Zach Cooney joined Nitrex Heat Treating Services in 2013 and...
Furnace Builder Can-Eng Announces Promotions
Can-Eng Furnaces International, Ltd. (CAN-ENG) is excited to announce the promotion of two long-standing, highly valued employees to new leadership roles in 2025. These promotions reflect CAN-ENG’s continued commitment to strengthening its leadership team, with a focus on advancing state-of-the-art...
Commercial Heat Treater Moving Into New Facility
Aalberts Surface Technologies, the second largest commercial heat treater in North America as ranked by "The Monty Heat Treat News" is making very substantial investments into their North American facilities these days, this does not include their recent planned acquisition of Paulo Products late in...
Heat Treat Fixturing-“The Heat Treat Podcast”
In this exciting episode of "The Heat Treat Podcast" our distinguished and very articulate host Mr. Carlos Torres talks heat treat fixturing with a personal friend of ours Mr. Jim Wilbur of Wm. Wright & Associates. Jim talks heat treat fixturing in general, delves into some specifics and also...
Furnace Builder Ships Two Gas Nitriding Systems
KGO GMBH based in Wetter, Germany is pleased to announce that they recently shipped two gas nitriding systems to a customer in China. These furnaces are the latest generation from KGO and include a system to minimize ammonia consumption as well as optimizing process gas utilization-each has working...
Solar Atmospheres Eastern PA Commissions Two Vacuum Furnaces
Solar Atmospheres in Souderton, PA, is currently commissioning two additional 2-bar vacuum furnaces, expanding its capabilities to meet increased demand in the aerospace, industrial gas turbine sectors, and for specialized hydride/de-hydride processing of Titanium, Tantalum, and Niobium. These...
Pat Wallis Appointed VP Sales & Marketing Aalberts Surface Technologies Specialized Heat Treatment US Correction
Earlier this week, Monday to be exact we had the news item below about Pat Wallis being appointed VP Sales & Marketing for Aalberts Surface Technologies US. As it turns out we need to make a small correction to this story. Pat will be VP of Sales for Applied Process, Premier Thermal and Ionic...
Aalberts Surface Technologies Appoints Plant Manager for Fort Smith Facility
We will make this an "Aalberts Day" with a second press release about the company. Matt Calnin was recently appointed Plant Manager of the Fort Smith, Arkansas, "Aalberts Surface Technologies Specialized Heat Treatment US location. Not familiar with this plant? We searched through out archives and...
KGO Commissions Nitriding Furnace In India
KGO has recently commissioned its first Horizontal Nitriding Furnace in India at Harsha Engineers International Ltd. "With this installation, thecustomer has gained more load capacity, lesser cycle time and more accurate Monitoring & Control on Power and Process gases." Pictured here with the...
Solar Manufacturing Receives Furnace Order from Firearms Manufacturer
"Solar Manufacturing Inc. announces the receipt of a vacuum heat treating furnace order for a firearms manufacturer based in the United States. The furnace, Model HFL-5748-2IQ, has a hot zone of 36” x 36” x 48” deep with a weight capacity of 5,000 lbs., and maximum operating temperature of 2400°F,...
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #16 FPM Heat Treating
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...
How Are European Heat Treater Coping with Higher Energy Costs?
High energy costs are a challenge to all heat treaters around the world, and particularly challenging to heat treaters in Europe. So what is the solution? We look to captive/commercial heat treat Ramada in Ovar, Portugal for a solution, a solution they outline in this note below. To cut a long story...