“Top 52” List Provides Insight Into North American Heat Treat Industry
“Top 52” List Provides Insight Into North American Heat Treat Industry Since 1999 “The Monty Heat Treat News” has been providing a list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America (USA, Canada & Mexico) based upon annual sales. What started as the “10 Largest” morphed into the “25 Largest” which grew into the “52 Largest” in…
Solar Atmospheres San Diego Welcomes Karla Clement as New Quality Manager
Solar Atmospheres San Diego Welcomes Karla Clement as New Quality Manager Solar Atmospheres of San Diego, a leading provider of high-performance vacuum heat treating, is pleased to announce the appointment of Karla Clement as the company’s new Quality Manager. Karla brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this crucial role. Her extensive…
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 Can-Eng Announces Promotions
Furnace Builder Can-Eng Announces Promotions Can-Eng Furnaces International, Ltd. (CAN-ENG) is excited to announce the promotion of two long-standing, highly valued employees to new leadership roles in 2025. These promotions reflect CAN-ENG’s continued commitment to strengthening its leadership team, with a focus on advancing state-of-the-art…
Commercial Heat Treater Moving Into New Facility
Commercial Heat Treater Moving Into New Facility Aalberts Surface Technologies, the second largest commercial heat treater in North America as ranked by “The Monty Heat Treat News” is making very substantial investments into their North American facilities these days, this does not include their recent planned acquisition of Paulo Products late…
Heat Treat Fixturing-“The Heat Treat Podcast”
Heat Treat Fixturing-“The Heat Treat Podcast” In this exciting episode of “The Heat Treat Podcast” our distinguished and very articulate host Mr. Carlos Torres talks heat treat fixturing with a personal friend of ours Mr. Jim Wilbur of Wm. Wright & Associates. Jim talks heat treat fixturing in general, delves into some specifics…
Furnace Builder Ships Two Gas Nitriding Systems
Furnace Builder Ships Two Gas Nitriding Systems KGO GMBH based in Wetter, Germany is pleased to announce that they recently shipped two gas nitriding systems to a customer in China. These furnaces are the latest generation from KGO and include a system to minimize ammonia consumption as well as optimizing process gas utilization-each has working…
Solar Atmospheres Eastern PA Commissions Two Vacuum Furnaces
Solar Atmospheres Eastern PA Commissions Two Vacuum Furnaces Solar Atmospheres in Souderton, PA, is currently commissioning two additional 2-bar vacuum furnaces, expanding its capabilities to meet increased demand in the aerospace, industrial gas turbine sectors, and for specialized hydride/de-hydride processing of Titanium, Tantalum, and…
Commercial Heat Treat Acquisitions 2024-Addition
Commercial Heat Treat Acquisitions 2024-Addition January 5th of this year “The Monty” in an industry exclusive, put together a list of commercial heat treat acquisitions in 2024. As it turns out a reader very politely pointed out that we missed on acquisition which took place April of 2024-Solar Atmospheres acquiring Metal Craft Inc. This has now…
Performance Review Institute Appoints Jay Solomond as CEO
Performance Review Institute Appoints Jay Solomond as CEO The background to this story is that the Performance Review Institute (PRI) was incorporated in 1990 to administer the Nadcap program, NADCAP in turn covers a variety of aspects of the aerospace industry including heat treating. “Nadcap history ; Prior to Nadcap, aerospace companies…
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #50 Crio
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #50 Crio Since 1999 “The Monty” has been publishing annually a list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America based upon annual sales, our 2021 list can be found at https://themonty.com/project/50-largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treats-2021-2/ This…
How Are Windmill Gears Heat Treated?
How Are Windmill Gears Heat Treated? Well we can’t speak for every manufacturer but ZF Wind Power in Coimbatore, India is pretty typical in that they are using large pit, gas carburizing furnaces. In this particular case Aichelin Unitherm of India is providing the company a total of 7 electrically heated pit furnaces each with an operating…
What is a Commercial Heat Treat Shop Worth?
What is a Commercial Heat Treat Shop Worth? While there is always a strong demand for commercial heat treat companies the pandemic has drastically reduced the number being sold over the past 18 months (the only one which comes to mind is the acquisition of Premier Thermal by Aalberts earlier this year). The reasons are many and varied and…
ECM Excels in Semiconductor Market for Rapid Thermal Processing
ECM Excels in Semiconductor Market for Rapid Thermal Processing ECM’s product expansion with research & development and laboratory furnace systems, brand name JIPELEC, has proven highly successful within the academic and semiconductor industries. With the recent increased interest in US semiconductor research and manufacturing, ECM is excited…
Fred Roth
Fred Roth It is with deep sorrow that we inform you of the passing of Fred erick Roth on October 20, 2021 , longtime Ipsen employee , husband, son, father , grandfather and friend . A mechanical engineer by trade, Fred followed his father Harry’s example by entering into the heat – treating industry at Abar. Fred began in hot zone design and…