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]
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…
AICHELIN and Bodycote
AICHELIN and Bodycote “After entering the vacuum heat treatment Vacuum Furnace market segment in the middle of last year, AICHELIN recently successfully delivered a vacuum furnace to the plant of one of the leading heat treatment and specialist service providers for thermal processes, Bodycote, in Vantaa (Finland). The furnace, with a usable…
Captive/ Commercial Heat Treater Completes New Furnace Install
Captive/ Commercial Heat Treater Completes New Furnace Install Captive/Commercial heat treater RAMADA ACOS in Ovar, Portugal has been mentioned by “The Monty Heat Treat News” several times over the years, including this summary of the company in 2021; “NOVEMBER 2021; Ramada ACOS is a captive/commercial heat treater located in the northern part…
Ipsen USA Announces Management Changes in Customer Service Team
Ipsen USA Announces Management Changes in Customer Service Team Ipsen is pleased to announce the promotion of Evan Hundley to Retrofits Manager and the appointment of Lu Chouraki as Field Service Manager. Since joining Ipsen in October 2023 as a Project Manager in the Retrofits Department, Hundley has demonstrated strong leadership and a…
50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters
50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters Since 1997 “The Monty Heat Treat News” has been publishing a list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America, a list which has grown from the 10 Largest to the 50 Largest- the 2024 list can be found here; “The Monty’s” 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters 2024″ . …
Aalberts Surface Technologies Invests in Additional Equipment for Polish Facility
Aalberts Surface Technologies Invests in Additional Equipment for Polish Facility Aalberts Surface Technologies, one of the largest commercial heat treaters in Europe and North America recently invested in additional equipment for their Dzierżoniów, Poland plant. ” The Monty Heat Treat News ” had the privilege of visiting this facility a few…
Where Are They Now- Jim Belavich
Where Are They Now- Jim Belavich Jim is a fellow who has spent his entire working career in the supply side of the North American heat treatment industry. Over the course of his career he has worked with companies such as Conrad Kacsik Instrument Systems in Solon, Ohio, GeoCorp, a supplier of thermocouples again in Ohio and Tru-Cal Inc., of…
Mr. John Dykstra, Chief Service Officer at Ipsen, USA-The Interview
Mr. John Dykstra, Chief Service Officer at Ipsen, USA-The Interview F urnace builder Ipsen of Rockford, Illinois recently created a brand new position, that of Chief Service Officer (CSO), an executiv e-level addition to the manufacturer’s U.S. Leadership Team. The man chosen for that position is Mr. John Dykstra, and we are pleased to be…
Aerospace Company Passes Second Nadcap Audit for Heat Treat
Aerospace Company Passes Second Nadcap Audit for Heat Treat Based in Milford, New Hampshire, USA Hitchiner Manufacturing Co. Inc. is a family owned aerospace company with an in house heat treatment department. The company is pretty excited by the fact that they officially passed their second Nadcap audit for heat treat. These photos show the heat…
The Heat Treatment Song
The Heat Treatment Song In light (very light) heat treatment news we present to you the “Heat Treatment Song”-as far as we know the only song ever written about the heat treatment industry. Adam Adamek, Sales Team Leader Vacuum Heat Treatment / Brazing / Low Pressure Carburizing for SECO WARWICK wrote the text and music. Vocals come from Mr….
Watch a Vacuum Carburizing Line Being Installed-McGard LLC
Watch a Vacuum Carburizing Line Being Installed-McGard LLC In Orchard Park, New York State, USA we find an auto parts supplier by the name of McGard LLC-this is how they describe themselves; ” McGard is a manufacturer of high quality security products, wheel locks and chrome plated lug nuts. Our customers include some of the finest North…