USA Commercial Heat Treater Closes Their Doors
USA Commercial Heat Treater Closes Their Doors Earlier this week, Phoenix Metal Treating, located at W190 N11350 Carnegie Drive in Germantown, Wisconsin, officially closed down. This 40 year old family owned company operated several medium sized Beavermatic and Ipsen batch IQ furnaces and catered largely to the local automotive parts suppliers….
Japanese High-Tech Sector Orders SECO/WARWICK Vacuum Furnace
Japanese High-Tech Sector Orders SECO/WARWICK Vacuum Furnace (Editor’s Note; In this press release Maciej Korecki, Vice President of the SECO/WARWICK Group’s Vacuum Segment states; “This order will support the production of components for gas turbines”. Recently “The Monty Heat Treat News” published an article entitled, ” AI Data Centers Spiking…
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]
Vacuum Heat Treater Finds Business to Be Strong
Vacuum Heat Treater Finds Business to Be Strong Founded in the 1970’s commercial heat treater “Vacuum S.P.A.” in Verdello, Italy has survived recessions, foreign wars and the ups and downs that effect all businesses and at the end of the day has continued to grow and prosper. In 2023 the company was acquired by Germany based “Haertha…
Vacuum Furnace Builder Receives Their 1,000th New Furnace Order
Vacuum Furnace Builder Receives Their 1,000th New Furnace Order Furnace builder TAV just yesterday received orders for two new vacuum furnaces which means the company can now claim to have sold just over 1,000 new vacuum furnaces over the years-1,001 to be exact. The news was received by Gord Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News”during a…
Cambridge Heat Treating 1982-2025
Cambridge Heat Treating 1982-2025 For 43 years commercial heat treater Cambridge Heat Treating in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada has been a mainstay of the Canadian heat treat industry and one of the larger players in the Canadian market. Founded by Bob Robbins in 1982, the company has thrived and prospered over the years but alas the world keeps…
Heat Treatment Italy/Slovenia
Heat Treatment Italy/Slovenia Over the years the team at “The Monty Heat Treat News”has reported on captive and commercial heat treating around the world and this continues-in the next 2 week we will be reporting on heat treatment in Italy and Slovenia. Our visits will take us to captive heat treats including gear manufacturers, commercial heat…
Largest Nitrider North America?
Largest Nitrider North America? Going back to January 20th of this year “The Monty Heat Treat News” had a “RUMOR” about commercial heat treater “Nitrex”. Since that time we posted an update explaining that this “rumor” involved a very large pit nitrider-here at last is the formal announcement; “We are proud to announce the installation of…
US Company to Exit Commercial Heat Treating
US Company to Exit Commercial Heat Treating Several times recently “The Monty Heat Treat News” has mentioned a growing litany of North American commercial heat treaters closing their doors, the most recent mention can be found here: “Another USA Commercial Heat Treater Closes it’s Doors” Very unfortunately it would appear that yet another…
Nickel Price Skyrockets-Alloy Components Set for Major Price Increases
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) -…
John Hubbard Retires from TPH Board of Directors
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
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 Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #31 Century Sun Metal Treating, Traverse City, Michigan
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…
Furnace Builder “Aichelin” Makes Major Investment in New Location-Plans to Shift Some Production
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…
Midwest USA Commercial Heat Treater Poised to add More Batch IQ Capacity
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″…