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...
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]
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...
Commercial Heat Treat Acquisitions 2024-Addition
January 5th of this year "The Monty" in an industry exclusive, put together a list of commercial heat treat acquisitions in 2024. As it turns out a reader very politely pointed out that we missed on acquisition which took place April of 2024-Solar Atmospheres acquiring Metal Craft Inc. This has now...
Where Are They Now-Mark Podob
In the North American heat treat industry Mr. Mark Podob is a very well known fellow both for his time with furnace builder Ipsen and subsequently as owner of Metlab Heat Treat in Wyndmoor, PA, USA-a commercial heat treat which had the distinction of having the largest commercially available pit...
Aerospace Company Adds Drop Bottom Oven
Magellan Aerospace Limited is a global firm involved in the aerospace industry who just happens to have heat treating in many of their locations including one way out in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. According to this press release and our own knowledge at "The Monty Heat Treat News" this location...
German Furnace Builder Partners with Chinese Firm
Furnace builder "ROHDE Schutzgasöfen GmbH" of Hanau, Germany is pleased to announce that they have partnered with "Shanghai Advanced Metallurgical Technology Corp.", (SAMT) to better service the Asian market. Jörn Rohde, CEO of the company had this to say; "I am proud to say that over the years we...
Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems Ships Continuous Mesh Belt Brazing & Annealing Line to Bluewater Thermal
Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems is pleased to announce the commissioning of a 28” wide, 4 zone mesh belt annealing and brazing furnace for Bluewater Thermal Solutions, one of the largest, U.S. based commercial heat treaters. The furnace is installed in Bluewater’s annealing and brazing facility...
Commercial Heat Treater Adds Batch IQ Capacity
April 18th as part of our regular "Monday Morning Briefing" we mentioned that commercial heat treater Bluewater Thermal in St. Marys, PA, USA was in the process of adding another batch IQ furnace “The Monty Heat Treat News” Monday Morning Briefing | The Monty With the assistance of the "Bluewater...
Nitriding and FNC (Ferritic Nitrocarburizing)
This week’s exciting “Heat Treat Podcast” talks with Mr. Mark Hemsath of Nitrex about nitriding and FNC. Mark is a good friend and one of the foremost experts in the world on both topics. Did you like this article? Click here to subscribe to The Monty. View our recent magazines and podcasts by...
Additive Manufacturing Firm Adds “HIP” Capacity
In Germany we see that OWL AM Additive Manufacturing GmbH recently added Hot Isostatic Processing to their list of offerings as we can see in this press release; “Further HIP capacity available: Since August 2021, OWL AM Additive Manufacturing GmbH, has been able to offer their customers Hot...
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #18 Industrial Steel Treating, Jackson, Michigan
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 much...
Additive Manufacturing Firm Now NADCAP Accredited
It has been an interesting journey watching Burloak Technologies, an additive manufacturing firm invest in a brand new captive heat treating department and today we see the final step. The final step being NADCAP Accreditation. The rather breathless report is below and comes from part of the heat...