THE MONTY HEAT TREAT NEWS

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Furnace Builder Ipsen is having a good year, no make that a great year with a vacuum furnace backlog of over 60 furnaces which might be a record for the company. This photo shows one of the largest projects the company is working on, all we can tell you at this time is that the system is destined...

It is quite unusual to see a commercial heat treater close it’s doors for good and sell off the furnaces and building separately but it does happen from time to time. A couple that come to mind that have closed down in the past few years would include the  Robert Wooler Company in Dresher, PA., and...

So why is this experienced group of heat treaters at Centek Group ecstatic with happiness? Because they just read the March 2022 issue of "The Monty Heat Treat News" and now they have the absolute latest news about the global heat treatment industry https://fliphtml5.com/gvbzt/digw Want to know more...

This interesting press release comes from heat treat industry supplier Vacuum & Atmosphere Services (VAS) in the UK, a company “The Monty Heat Treat News” visited in late 2021. We are including a photo we took of a recent VAS installation, this was taken at captive heat treater Krohne...

Controls company Super Systems UK recently appointed Mr. Stephen Biggs as Sales Director, Super Systems Europe. Stephen has extensive experience in the heat treatment industry as you can see in his introduction below. You can see the rest of the SSE team in this photo. "My name is Stephen Biggs and...

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...