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]
Top Heat Treatment News Items For the Week of January 13th
Top Heat Treatment News Items For the Week of January 13th “The Monty Heat Treat News” constantly monitors our news stories to see which are the most popular amongst our readers. This is based upon reader feedback and social media viewings. For the week starting January 13th, 2025 these were are 3 top stories; Commercial Heat Treater Moving…
Fastener Manufacturer to Bring Heat Treat In-House
Fastener Manufacturer to Bring Heat Treat In-House Located in Taylor, Michigan USA this is how B&D Cold Headed Products describes themselves; “B&D Thread Rolling, Inc. dba B&D Cold Headed Products, is a U.S. manufacturer of high strength cold-formed bolts, studs, pins and other metal fasteners. Our parts are found in products all…
CFC Supplier Appoints Head of Sales
CFC Supplier Appoints Head of Sales Based in Oberasbach, Germany “Graphite Materials GmbH” is a supplier of CFC Fixturing for the heat treatment industry. The company is well known in Europe but less known in North America. Recently the firm appointed Mr. Bastian Schott as Head of Sales to replace Roland Weeske who left the company in 2024 for…
Nitrex Lands Order From Aluminum Extrusion Supplier
Nitrex Lands Order From Aluminum Extrusion Supplier “Enhancing Automotive Aluminum Extrusions with Nitrex System; To meet the automotive industry’s growing demand for high-quality extrusions, a European manufacturer specializing in profiles for the automotive sector has integrated a Nitrex nitriding system into their production process. This…
World’s Most Popular Internal Quench Vacuum Furnace?
World’s Most Popular Internal Quench Vacuum Furnace? Furnace builder Ipsen, the “Largest New Furnace Builder” in North America is quite rightly very proud of the fact that their popular “Turbotreater” line of vacuum furnace iss celebrating 40 years of production. This piqued the interest of the team at “The Monty” and prompted us to find…
Nitrex Names New Plant Manager
Nitrex Names New Plant Manager Commercial heat treater Nitrex who regularly appears on “The Monty Heat Treat News” list of the “50 largest Commercial Heat Treaters in North America” has just named a new Plant Manager for their facility in Franklin, Indiana, USA. Mr. Zach Cooney joined Nitrex Heat Treating Services in 2013 and since then he has…
Challenges in the Heat Treatment Industry-Labor Costs & Shortages
Challenges in the Heat Treatment Industry-Labor Costs & Shortages It has been rather challenging the past almost two years in the heat treatment industry and “The Monty Heat Treat News” is looking at what those challenges are in a continuing series entitled “Supply Chain Issues & The Heat Treatment Industry” . To date we have been…
Don Hendry Takes Gavel as 2022 MTI President
Don Hendry Takes Gavel as 2022 MTI President One area of strength for the Metal Treating Institute over the years has always been its line of leadership , and 202 2 is no different. At the final night award s dinner during MTI’s October Fall Meeting in San Antonio, TX , 20 21 President Jim Oakes from Super Systems passed the gavel to the new 2022…
ECM NANO Lands in North American Aerospace Market
ECM NANO Lands in North American Aerospace Market ECM USA Director of Sales, Bill Gornicki, announces the purchase of a NANO system for deployment into the North American aerospace manufacturing market. The NANO flexibility provides a variety of processes including LPC (Low Pressure Carburizing), hardening, brazing and annealing. ECM’s advanced…
Bodycote increases Hot Isostatic Pressing capacity in the USA
Bodycote increases Hot Isostatic Pressing capacity in the USA Bodycote, the world’s largest thermal processing services provider, is expanding its Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) capability in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. The new HIP capacity, which will be online in the first half of 2022, will focus on developments in additive manufacturing…
Ed Engelhard Recognized with MTI Industry Merit Award
Ed Engelhard Recognized with MTI Industry Merit Award As long-time members of the Metal Treating Institute (MTI), Solar Atmospheres employees are actively involved with the Institute. At the recent 2021 Fall meeting held in San Antonio TX , MTI recognized Ed Engelhard, Vice President Corporate Quality, with the MTI Award of Industry Merit. This…
Auto Parts Maker Continues to Add More Heat Treatment Capacity
Auto Parts Maker Continues to Add More Heat Treatment Capacity With annual sales of over $5 Billion USD, almost 30,000 employees and 60 manufacturing facilities around the world Canada based Linamar is a very substantial player in the automotive parts industry. As always our interest in the firm lies in the fact that they do a great deal of heat…