52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters-a “Monty Heat Treat News” Exclusive
52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters-a “Monty Heat Treat News” Exclusive Tuesday June 30 “The Monty Heat Treat News” will publish our annual list of the 52 largest commercial heat treaters in North America for 2026, the only such list in the world. This year’s list will feature a number of changes as some companies expand, others…
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….
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]
“The Monty Heat Treat News” Celebrates Winter
“The Monty Heat Treat News” Celebrates Winter Perhaps celebrates is too strong a word but for good or for bad the headquarters of “The Monty” in North America is seeing near record snowfalls in 2025. This photo taken just a few hours ago shows “Gord Montgomery” of “The Monty” standing in the parking lot of our facility backed by…
Fastener Manufacturer Appoints Production Manager of New Heat Treat Department
Fastener Manufacturer Appoints Production Manager of New Heat Treat Department Late in 2024 “The Monty Heat Treat News” announced in an industry exclusive that fastener manufacturer Simpson Strong Tie was investing in a Brand New Heat Treat Department at their Gallatin, Tennessee, United States facility. In an update to this story Mr. Pat DeRose…
North American Furnace Builder Plans on Expanding European Presence
North American Furnace Builder Plans on Expanding European Presence “CAN-ENG Furnaces International, Ltd. (CAN-ENG) is excited to announce its strategic partnership with Piotr Pelian, founder of Industrial Process Technology (IndProTech), to enhance support for existing customers and expand CAN-ENG’s presence across Europe. With over 30 years…
Michigan Heat Treater Adds Gas Nitriding
Michigan Heat Treater Adds Gas Nitriding “Aalberts Surface Technologies Expands Gas Nitriding Capabilities at Livonia, MI location; We’re excited to announce that our new gas nitriding furnace is now up and running! Along with our existing capabilities in Greenville, SC, we now offer gas nitriding services at our Livonia, MI location. This new…
Fire Devastated Heat Treat Rebuilds
Fire Devastated Heat Treat Rebuilds “In the evening of August 15th, 2023 commercial heat treater Härterei Haferbier in Göppingen, Germany suffered a devasting fire. The fire started in a Sealed Quench (Batch Integral Quench) furnace line from where it quickly spread to the roof and to the other furnaces. Firefights arrived quickly and luckily…
Nitrex Heat Treat Services Rumor
Nitrex Heat Treat Services Rumor January 20th of this year “The Monty Heat Treat News” posted the rumor below about Nitrex Heat Treat Services making a large investment in a new project. Well surprise, surprise the rumor has proven to be correct and we now have a photo of the new furnace project. We look forward to providing our readers with the…
E-commerce Offerings Expand Encompassing Environmentally Friendly Heat Transfer Fluids
E-commerce Offerings Expand Encompassing Environmentally Friendly Heat Transfer Fluids The Dow product line is now available on the Hubbard-Hall eCommerce site. Increasing digital offerings allows for competitive pricing, 24/7 ordering and product information at the touch of a button. D ow brand heat transfer fluids are cost effective, propyle…
Largest North American Captive Heat Treaters-Vacuum Carburizing (LPC)
Largest North American Captive Heat Treaters-Vacuum Carburizing (LPC) An interesting finding popped up during our search to find the 10 largest single location captive heat treaters in North America and that finding is vacuum carburizing. We knew setting out that the largest would be heavily weighted in favor of automotive suppliers, what we…
Jim Barnard, Ionex 1946-2022
Jim Barnard, Ionex 1946-2022 We regret to mention the passing of Jim Barnard, a long time heat treater who was the President & Founder of furnace builder Ionex in Michigan, USA. Ionex was one of just 2 or 3 North American furnace builders who ever offered Ion (Plasma) Nitriders. An example of one of his units can be found in this photo which…
BMI Ships New Vacuum Furnaces to South Korea
BMI Ships New Vacuum Furnaces to South Korea From French furnace builder BMI we have this press release; “At the end of 2021, BMI signed a pre-acceptance protocol for two new vacuum gas quenching furnaces for a Korean customer who makes cutting tools. These two furnaces will be installed in the customer’s existing heat treatment workshop, which…
Impressive Results with New Sintering Vacuum Furnace
Impressive Results with New Sintering Vacuum Furnace In 2021, Solar Atmospheres of Western PA reported that they were retrofitting a vacuum furnace for use in a new Metal Injection Molding (MIM) and Additive Manufacturing (AM) binder removal technology application . The goal was to build a vacuum sintering furnace with a new innovative hot zone…
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #40 American Steel Treating
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #40 American Steel Treating 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…