Nitrided Titanium Alloys vs Nitrided Stainless Steels Authored by Dr. Edward Rolinski of Advanced Heat Treat Corp.
Applications of stainless steel (SS) have been known for over a hundred years. Enhancing tribological properties of these alloys can be achieved by using nitriding [1, 2]. However, the standard nitriding process has limited abilities to improve corrosion resistance of SS unless it is used at very...
Avion Europe a Growing Force in the German Heat Treat Market
A recent visit by “The Monty Heat Treat News” to AVION Europa GmbH & Co., based in Hagen, Germany revealed to us a firm which is thriving as a provider of heat treating sales and services to the German heat treatment industry-both captive and commercial. Our hosts, co owners Mr. Roland Caminades...
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]
Aichelin Enters Vacuum Furnace Market
Yesterday we had a press release from Austrian furnace builder Aichelin Group about the firm forming a joint venture with Turkish furnace builder Sistem Teknik to "produce and distribute industrial vacuum heat treatment technologies and services in Europe"...
Furnace Builder Aichelin to Offer Vacuum Furnaces
"The AICHELIN Group and Sistem Teknik have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture in Austria. This joint venture will produce and distribute industrial vacuum heat treatment technologies and services in Europe. The AICHELIN Group is thus adding a promising segment to its existing product...
New Commercial Heat Treat in Tennessee
According to this press release a German company by the name of BorTec will be setting up a commercial heat treat facility in Johnson City, TN. Once completed the facility will offer "boronizing"; "Boriding, or Boronizing, is a thermo-chemical surface hardening process used to improve the life and...
Largest North American Captive Heat Treats-Tinker Air Force Base
As we work towards our 2024 list of the "15 Largest Single Location Captive Heat Treats in North America" we have another new listing, one that has not appeared on our previous lists and a very unusual one at that. Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma is one of the largest US Air Force bases in the...
Largest Captive Heat Treaters North America-Dana Fairfield
"The Monty Heat Treat News" has for a number of years been publishing a list of the largest single location captive heat treaters in North America-our 2023 industry exclusive list can be found at https://themonty.com/project/11-largest-captive-heat-treats-north-america-an-industry-exclusive/ This...
Gearbox Manufacturer Adds Endo Generators
"NGC Gears, one of the world’s largest wind power gearbox manufacturers, has completed the installation of two additional EndoFlex generators from UPC-Marathon, a Nitrex company, at its new facility in Jinhu, China location. This acquisition brings the total of generator sets to five since 2022,...
Captive/Commercial Heat Treater Completes Furnace Install
Over the years "The Monty Heat Treat News" has reported several times on a large captive/commercial heat treater in Ovar, Portugal by the name of Ramada S.A. The last time we mentioned the firm was November of 2023 when we spoke about the company investing in 2 new sealed quench furnaces being...
Acquisition in the US Heat Treat Industry
This certainly makes for interesting reading. Solar Atmospheres is ranked as the 4th largest commercial heat treater in North America by "The Monty Heat Treat News" and obviously they continue to grow. "El Cajon, CA, April 29, 2024 – Solar Atmospheres, Inc. is pleased to announce their most recent...
Anthony Rizzo/Hercules Heat Treating
We regret to mention the passing of Anthony Rizzo at one time owner of Hercules Heat Treating Corp., in Brooklyn, NY https://www.herculesht.com/ Hercules Heat Treating Corporation | Metal Heat Treating for the Military and Commercial Aerospace Industry Precision Aerospace Heat Treating. Est. 1949....
“Cronite” Talk “Alloy” For the Heat Treatment Industry
Today we are very pleased to be speaking with Mr. Radek Houdek, Cronite Group VP Sales & Marketing and Mr. Erick Garcia, President, Cronite North America. Both individuals bring a lifetime of experience in providing high temperature alloy components to the heat treatment industry. The photo to...
USA ADI Facility Now Closed
Back in 2018 US commercial heat treater "Applied Process" (now part of Aalberts Surface Technologies) announced a new facility in Fort Smith, Arkansas, US which would perform ADI (austemper ductile iron-a relatively uncommon process). Earlier this year Aalberts stated that this facility would...
Carburizing of Large Gears – Haerterei Reese
Carburizing of large gears has been much in the news recently due to the closing in the USA of commercial heat treater Metlab who offered the largest commercially available pit carburizing furnaces in North America (https://themonty.com/metlab-ht-closing-giving-gear-suppliers-headaches/) As you can...