The “Heat Treat Podcast” Speaks With Bob Hill of “Solar Atmospheres”
This week our intelligent, handsome and witty host Mr. Carlos Torres of the "Heat Treat Podcast" speaks with Mr. Bob Hill, President of commercial heat treat "Solar Atmospheres of Western PA" and "Solar Atmospheres of Michigan". The entire team at "The Monty Heat Treat News" have known Bob for a...
Chromalox Expansion Includes Gasbarre Continuous Annealing Furnace
In October 2023 "Chromalox" announced that they were making a major investment in their manufacturing facility in Ogden, Utah, USA an investment which includes more heat treat capacity-this announcement can be found further down. Part of this investment included a mesh belt annealing furnace from...
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]
Top 3 Heat Treatment News Stories Week of July 15th 2024
Our top 3 news items for the week starting July 15th/2024 based upon visitors to https://themonty.com/heat-treat-news/ and social media "views" include these three; Heat Treating in Turkey-DÖNÜŞÜM ISIL İŞLEM; From a regular reader in the Turkish heat treat market about commercial heat treater...
Fuel Injector Supplier Adds Nitriding System
"Nitrex has successfully completed the installation of a third nitriding system at a leading manufacturer specializing in high-performance fuel injection systems for diesel engines in maritime vessels. This new investment underscores the customer’s commitment to advancing manufacturing capabilities...
Solar Atmospheres of Michigan Facility Expansion
To this interesting press release from commercial heat treater Solar Atmospheres, we can add that Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" was fortunate enough to be able to see this facility at the very beginning. The individual with his thumbs up in one of the photos below is none other than...
Top 50 Heat Treater Appoints General Manager
Commercial heat treater Paulo, ranked as one of the 50 largest North American commercial heat treaters by "The Monty Heat Treat News" has appointed a new Plant Manager for their St. Louis, MO location; https://themonty.com/project/the-montys-50-largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treaters-2024/ ...
SECO/WARWICK CEO Talks About the Past 5 Years
It has been 5 years now since Mr. Sławomir Woźniak was appointed CEO of the SECO/WARWICK Group and to mark the occasion Slawomir was asked about what has changed during his tenure-his answers are below. To compliment this interview we would like to point you towards an interview "The Monty Heat...
Top 50 Heat Treater Adds Gas Nitriding System
"Aalberts Surface Technologies" is ranked by "The Monty Heat Treat News" as one of the 50 largest commercial heat treaters in North America-find out where at https://themonty.com/project/the-montys-50-largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treaters-2024/ We mention them today as their Livonia...
International MIM Manufacturer Chooses Ipsen Again for 17th & 18th Vacuum Furnaces
Based on a foundation of trust and service excellence, an international leader in Metal Injection Molding again chose Ipsen to supply furnaces capable of both debinding and sintering for their growing fleet. The partnership with Ipsen, an ongoing iterative process, has resulted in a total purchase...
Bodycote Issues Trading Update Covering the Four-Month Period from 1 January to 30 April 2021
Bodycote, the world’s largest commercial heat treater, issued a trading update covering the four-month period from 1 January to 30 April 2021 and a brief summary can be found below with the full report available at Trading update - Bodycote Plc. As usual it makes for very interesting reading as it...
Heat Treating Costs Rising-Kanthal Announced Price Increase
In what is becoming a sign of the times and as mentioned in “The Monty Heat Treat News” Cost of Heat Treating Going Up! | The Monty Kanthal has just announced a price increase. Kanthal is a global supplier of electric heat treating elements and according to this press release effective June 7, 2021...
The Heat Treat Podcast Talks Hot Isostatic Pressing-Doug Puerta, Stack Metallurgical
In this weeks installment of “The Heat Treat Podcast” Carlos Torres has a discussion with Mr. Doug Puerta, CEO of Stack Metallurgical Services in Portland, Oregon about HOT Isostatic Pressing. Doug is like many of us in the industry in that he was born with heat treating in his blood, his father...
Metal Finishing Company, Wichita, Kansas, USA
Out in Wichita, Kansas, USA we see that Metal Finishing Company is proud to announce that we have been approved by Northrup Grumman for Heat Treatment to AMS 2759/3. In addition to this photo we have this summary of the company from 2016; "Metal Finishing began aerospace and commercial heat treating...
Park Thermal International Auction-The Final Act (Maybe)
Park Thermal based in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada has been supplying the heat treatment industry since 1938 which is a quite remarkable record. Alas as we previously mentioned this supplier of quench salts and new and used heat treating furnaces recently closed their doors for good. Today...