Heat Treating in Turkey-DÖNÜŞÜM ISIL İŞLEM
From a regular reader in the Turkish heat treat market about commercial heat treater "DÖNÜŞÜM ISIL İŞLEM", one of the larger in the country; Dönüşüm Isıl İşlem, based in Kocaeli, has one of the most qualified heat treatment facilities in Turkey, which has continued its activities both domestically...
Heat Treatment Names in the News
Mr. John Levensky has spent most of his working life in sales positions in the commercial heat treat industry in the western US. Just recently he became Business Development Manager at Heat Treatment Australia in Los Angeles. Heat Treatment Australia (HTA) is the largest commercial heat treater in...
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]
Bodycote Greenville (SC) Launches New HIP Facility
Commercial heat-treating giant Bodycote is pretty pleased to launch their new Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) facility in Greenville, SC, USA. "The Monty Heat Treat News" has been fortunate enough to visit this facility several times over the years including in 2023 and it has been fascinating to watch...
Commercial HT Takes Over In House Heat Treat Department (Originally Posted October 2023)
Lets start with some basic background; “The Winning BLW Group develops, produces and sells drive and synchronization elements for the automotive industry at 3 locations in Germany. With more than 72 years of experience in the field of precision forming, the company is an innovative and competent...
How We Doing These Days? Furnace Builder SECO/WARWICK
From furnace builder SECO/WARWICK we have this report about how their various divisions in North America are doing these days. According to this report from the company they are doing pretty darn well-thanks for asking. "SECO/WARWICK USA., the Group’s North American Thermal, CAB, and Aluminum...
Barnes Group Installing Heat Treat Department at Swedish Facility
Barnes Group based in Bristol, CT, USA is a global industrial technology and aerospace manufacturer and service provider whose facilities around the world quite often include in house heat treatment departments. It would appear from this note that Barnes is in the process of adding a state of the...
Gear Manufacturer Adds 4th Nitriding System
"In today’s automotive industry, where innovation and sustainability drive the future of the supply chain, a leading Chinese gear manufacturer stands at the forefront. Recently, this customer expanded its operations by integrating a fourth Nitrex nitriding furnace into its automated gear production....
IHT Appoints Uwe Schmelzing as Chairman
For our many German readers this makes for interesting reading. The Industrieverband Härtetechnik (IHT) is a very well respected organization serving the German heat treatment industry. According to this press release Mr. Uwe Schmelzing will be appointed as the new chairman at IHT's annual general...
German Heat Treatment Congress to be Virtual
The favorite annual European heat treatment show for "The Monty" team is the HärtereiKongress held in Cologne, Germany in October which we have attended for many years. Unfortunately the 2020 show was a virtual event due to COVID and it looks like this will be repeated in 2021 for the same reason....
Gallos Metal Solutions Completes Installation of 4th Mesh Belt Furnace Line
Further down you will find a press release from September of 2020 about how Gallos Metal Solutions in Milwaukee, WI, USA had accepted a brand new 4,000 pound per hour mesh belt furnace line from Can Eng International. The line is now installed as can be seen in these photos and we have these further...
Hyster Yale, Sulligent, AL, USA Closes Heat Treat department and Auctions off Furnaces
In Sulligent, Alabama, USA Hyster Yale a major forklift gear manufacturer is auctioning off their heat treatment department in an on line auction which will run until May 20, 2021. The company has long considered in house heat treating to be necessary, however not that long ago the entire product...
Captive Heat Treater Precision Castparts to Sell Off Surplus Vacuum Furnace-Is it Good Value?
Precision Castparts is a supplier of precision castings largely to the aerospace industry. It is known as a large captive heat treater offering high end processing but due to the slowdown in the aerospace industry it has seen a reduction in business which means some equipment has become surplus....
Tata Advanced Systems Limited to Install a Third Solution Heat Treatment Line
SECO/WARWICK will deliver the third Solution Heat Treatment line for a key Indian manufacturer in the defense and aviation sector - Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL). This order will be the largest production line for aircraft skins in the history of both companies. "The equipment that...
Hyundai Santa Fe Fires Due to Bad Heat Treating
This is the second time in just a couple of weeks that we have mentioned a major automotive company issuing a recall due to incorrect heat treating practices; “Seoul [South Korea], May 6 (ANI/Global Economic): Hyundai Motor recalled 390,000 vehicles from the US and Canada due to the possibility of...