THE MONTY HEAT TREAT NEWS

Solar Atmospheres Greenville, SC facility is pleased to announce it has been awarded Parker Aerospace approval. This achievement expands Solar Atmospheres' reach, offering five facilities able to assist customers with Parker Aerospace thermal processing requirements. Steve Prout, President of Solar...

If you are involved in commercial heat treating in Europe or North America, we can guarantee that you have run across the name "Aalbert Surface Technologies" as Aalberts is the second largest commercial heat treater on both continents...

"Special Springs, a leader in the manufacturing of high-quality springs and gas cylinders, has partnered with Nitrex again to expand their production capabilities. This long-standing collaboration, which began in October 2004 with the commissioning of the first Nitrex nitriding turnkey system, has...

Everybody with vacuum furnaces knows Edwards Vacuum which makes this press release rather interesting; "The U.S. Department of Commerce announced a preliminary agreement to grant up to $18 million in funding to vacuum pump and exhaust gas management systems manufacturer Edwards Vacuum through the...

Several years ago, "The Monty Heat Treat News" spoke with "Mr. Slawomir Woźniak", CEO of furnace builder "SECO/WARWICK" about both his company, their products and the global heat treatment industry in general. At the time we were impressed by his candor and his openness both about "SECO/WARWICK" and...

​Kordel Antriebstechnik GmbH based in Dülmen, Germany is a manufacturer of "high end" gear and drive systems and a company which believes in keeping all parts of the manufacturing process in house from gear blank to a finished gearbox. This includes heat treating which brings us to this news item....

ASM Will Not Cancel September Conference in St. Louis The ASM sponsored Heat Treat 2021 exhibition is scheduled for September 14-16th in St. Louis, Missouri. With Covid cases in Missouri rising again and new masking mandates in effect, many have speculated about whether the event will or should go ahead. ASM have issued this unequivical statement...

Expanite – Replacement or Reinforcement of DLC Coatings Diamond-like carbon or DLC coatings are today used in many areas where excellent friction properties and good wear resistance are required on component surfaces. The DLC layers applied by complex, time-consuming and costly PVD or PACVD processes are usually only a few micrometres thick. If...

CENOS Releases Latest Version of Induction Heating Simulation Software “In two years since the CENOS Induction Heating simulation software's first version was released in 2019, it is used by more than 50 customers in 12 countries and more than 100 academic users in universities across the world. CENOS’s main customers are induction heating...

August 18th we posted a news item in which we speculated that the Pandemic has effected used equipment pricing https://themonty.com/pandemic-pricing-effects-used-heat-treatment-pricing/ As a follow up note to this item we carefully followed a subsequent auction at Allied Heat Treat last week which...

As more mid-sized companies recover from pandemic related disruptions, Ipsen is seeing a surge in interest for standardized equipment. Ipsen reports a steady increase of orders for TITAN vacuum furnaces this year, with five in July alone. That’s a substantial increase over the same period in 2020,...

US Arsenal To Install Ion Nitriding System In the past "The Monty Heat Treat News" has pointed out that virtually all Ion (Plasma) nitriding systems come from either Europe or Colombia, South America. This press release tells us how a USA based company, Surface Combustion of Ohio recently shipped a new system to Watervliet Arsenal in New York...