Furnaces North America 2024… The Clock is TICKING
"Every day the clock of change is ticking. Customer demands, safety and compliance requirements, and maximizing throughput with labor shortages are all pressing every heat treater’s operations. And the pace of change isn’t going to slow down. It’s just going to get faster. The question is, “What...
Heat Treatment Names in the News
On a regular basis "The Monty" offers "Heat Treatment Names in the News", a compilation of individuals in the heat treatment industry who have made recent changes. These names make our list for the week of July 30, 2024. Glenn Ottinger, ThermoFusion. After 16 years with the company Mr. Glenn...
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]
Furnace Builder Ships Two Pit Nitriding Furnaces
Furnace builder ROHDE Schutzgasöfen GmbH of Hanau, Germany is pleased to announce the shipment of two pit nitriding furnaces to a customer in Switzerland. The furnaces are models TSG 150/200 and SG 70/100, the fully equipped and tested units shipped earlier this week on 3 transport trucks. Natasha...
World’s Largest Commercial Heat Treater Releases Interim Results
UK based "Bodycote" is without a doubt the globe's largest commercial heat treater, the firm just released their interim financial results for the six months to 30 June 2024. While the full details are available at https://www.bodycote.com/investors/ Bodycote Investors - Creating superior...
Supplier Named in Faulty Heat Treating of Ball Studs
Recently "The Monty Heat Treat News" posted a news item entitled "Experimental Heat Treatment Leads to Recall" https://themonty.com/experimental-heat-treatment-leads-to-recall/ While it served as yet another reminder of how important heat treating is to the manufacturing process it was rather short...
Top Heat Treatment News Stories for the Week of July 22/2024
"The Monty Heat Treat News" Team constantly monitors the levels of interest for each of our news items, through our website and monthly magazine and also views on social media. Based upon this we are able to tell you, our readers, the most popular news items for each week. For the week starting...
American Axle & Manufacturing-15 Largest Captive Heat Treats North America
"The Monty Heat Treat News" is rather proud of the fact that for a number of years now we have been offering a heat treat industry exclusive in the form of an annual list of the largest single location captive (in-house) heat treaters in North...
Aluminum Extrusion Supplier Expands Nitriding Department
"Nitrex successfully completed a second nitriding system installation with Balexco, a leading aluminum extrusion company based in Bahrain. This marks a significant achievement in our enduring partnership, which began in 1995 when Balexco became our very first aluminum extrusion customer in the...
HALEX Group, Europe to Add Another Facility
According to this press release the HALEX Group will be adding a brand new facility to their Härtha Hardening Industries Division. To put this into context we have this summary of the company followed by the official press release about this new addition to what is already one of the largest heat...
Monday Morning Briefing
Largest New Furnace Order of 2021 in North America. Recently “The Monty Heat Treat News” broke the story about the largest new furnace order in North America in 2021. We can now provide a few more details. As previously mentioned the customer is EXCO, a company based in Canada with multiple location...
Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Announces New Premium Black Oxide Service
Advanced Heat Treat Corp. (AHT), a recognized leader in heat treatment and metallurgical solutions, announced a new black oxide option today. The oxidation is a darker black color than their original offering. The additional option will be available as a standalone black oxide treatment and as part...
Slowdown In North American Heat Treating-This is Why
We have spoken in the past about how automotive heat treating in North America has slowed dramatically in the past 3 months- our posts on the subject can be seen below. As the largest segment of the heat treating industry in North America is automotive related it is easy to see why the entire heat...
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Company Adds Batch IQ Heat Treating Capacity
In Milwaukee, USA we see that a long established company, Complete Heat Treating has now entered the batch IQ/Carburizing market with a Surface Combustion batch IQ furnace. Complete has always been known for direct fired heat treating, this marks a new venture for the company. "The Monty Heat Treat...
Braddock Metallurgical Boyton Beach, Florida Nadcap Accredited
Or as commercial heat treater Braddock Metallurgical in the US Southeast would say, they are now 2 for 2 after their Jacksonville, Florida facility also recently received their Nadcap accreditation with Merit. We're 2 for 2! This time our Boynton Beach facility has earned its Nadcap accreditation...