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]
Fastener Manufacturers “Ditches” In House Heat Treat-Outsources Work
Fastener Manufacturers “Ditches” In House Heat Treat-Outsources Work “Commercial Spring & Tool Company Ltd.” in Ontario, Canada has since 1973 been producing a wide variety of fasteners, stampings and clips, many of which are destined for the automotive market. During this time the firm has largely done their austempering in…
Aerospace Supplier Grows Vacuum Heat Treatment Capabilities
Aerospace Supplier Grows Vacuum Heat Treatment Capabilities “A firm which supplies metal injection molded components for the aviation industry has added to its production capabilities with a vacuum furnace. This solution will increase the capacity to provide hardening process services while meeting aviation standards required by the industry. …
Another USA Commercial Heat Treater Closes it’s Doors
Another USA Commercial Heat Treater Closes it’s Doors In a relatively strong economy, it is a puzzler to the team at “The Monty Heat Treat News” why so many North American commercial heat treaters are closing their doors. At last count 2 in Canada have closed recently with at least 4 in Ohio having recently announced planned closings with…
Captive Heat Treater Receiving Substantial Investment
Captive Heat Treater Receiving Substantial Investment For a number of years “The Monty Heat Treat News” has offered a heat treatment industry exclusive-a list of the “ 15 Largest Single Location Captive Heat Treats in North America ”, it now appears that one of the locations on the list will be receiving a very substantial investment. Located…
Largest Commercial Heat Treats-How Big is the Pie?
Largest Commercial Heat Treats-How Big is the Pie? April 5th, 2025 “The Monty Heat Treat News” will be offering our updated list of the “50 largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters” (the 2024 List can be found “Here”). This list prompts the obvious question-how big is the North America commercial heat treat pie? In other words what is…
Top Heat Treatment News Items Week of February 17th
Top Heat Treatment News Items Week of February 17th Each week the “Monty Heat Treat News” looks back at our heat treatment stories from the week before and comes up with a list of the 3 most popular based upon reader feedback, website visits and social media posts. For the week starting February 17th, 2025 it would appear that heat treating of…
John Hubbard of “Thermal Process Holdings” Announces Heat Treat Acquisition
John Hubbard of “Thermal Process Holdings” Announces Heat Treat Acquisition John Hubbard, Chairman of the Board of “ Thermal Process Holdings” announces the recent acquisition of “Rockford Heat Treaters” of Rockford, Illinois, USA. With this acquisition the firm now has 6 commercial heat treating facilities all located in the US Midwest. As is…
Ipsen, Kleve, Germany Ships Nitrider to New Heat Treat Facility
Ipsen, Kleve, Germany Ships Nitrider to New Heat Treat Facility Furnace builder Ipsen of Kleve, Germany just shipped a brand new nitriding furnace to commercial heat treater Härdservice AB in Hallstahammar, Sweden. Originally founded in Kolbäck, Sweden the firm recently added a second, brand new location in Hallstahammar which is where these…
Expanite provides sustainable alternative to Teflon® & Co.
Expanite provides sustainable alternative to Teflon® & Co. Expanite – The technology of the Danish pioneer for surface hardening of stainless steel and titanium is used more and more frequently when it comes to alternatives to classic fluoroplastic coatings such as Teflon®, Halar® or Xylan®. In addition to technical and commercial…
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #36 Thermal Vac, Orange, California
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #36 Thermal Vac, Orange, California 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…
ThermoFusion earns GE Aviation approval
ThermoFusion earns GE Aviation approval Following a full five-day audit, ThermoFusion, Hayward, California, has been awarded GE Aviation approval for vacuum heat treating and hardness testing. ThermoFusion continues to make gains in the Aerospace Market with earning an initial NADCAP approval in 2019, Honeywell approval in 2020, and NADCAP…
Large Ohio, USA Automotive Heat Treat Department Goes to Auction This Month
Large Ohio, USA Automotive Heat Treat Department Goes to Auction This Month Recently we announced that automotive transmission parts maker Bucyrus Precision Tech in Bucyrus, Ohio, USA was closed and that all the equipment including the very substantial in house heat treatment department would be going to auction-as an update to this story we can…