CFC Supplier Appoints Head of Sales
Based in Oberasbach, Germany "Graphite Materials GmbH" is a supplier of CFC Fixturing for the heat treatment industry. The company is well known in Europe but less known in North America. Recently the firm appointed Mr. Bastian Schott as Head of Sales to replace Roland Weeske who left the company in...
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...
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 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...
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...
Nickel Price Skyrockets-Alloy Components Set for Major Price Increases
For a variety of reasons including the war in the Ukraine the price of nickel futures escalated so much today that the London Metal Exchange we forced to suspend trading in nickel contracts, only the second time in history that this has occurred; "LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - The London Metal...
John Hubbard Retires from TPH Board of Directors
We have long considered John Hubbard to be one of the most successful commercial heat treaters of all time-his accomplishments in the industry are legendary (to learn more about John we would suggest his "Heat Treat Podcast" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H76BJtd6QsM). According to this press...
Natural Gas Pricing Dirt Cheap for North American Heat Treaters Compared to Europe
North Americans are absolutely right to complain about the rapid run up in natural gas pricing in such a short period of time, however compared to Europeans we have absolutely no reason to complain. Our good friend Alan Hick, is CHTA Secretary/Editor of Hotline, the largest heat treat publication in...
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #31 Century Sun Metal Treating, Traverse City, 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...
Furnace Builder “Aichelin” Makes Major Investment in New Location-Plans to Shift Some Production
Moedling, Austria based furnace builder “Aichelin” ranks as one of the largest furnace builders in the world with manufacturing locations on several continents AICHELIN Holding The company’s thermal treatment offerings are wide and varied and largely focused on atmosphere heat treating although...
Midwest USA Commercial Heat Treater Poised to add More Batch IQ Capacity
Regular readers will recall that in late 2021 Halliburton, one of the world's largest providers of products and services for the oil and gas industry auctioned off some of their equipment at their facility in Conroe, Texas, USA. Included in the offerings were three 36" X 48" X 36" batch IQ furnaces...