“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]
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…
Where Are They Now-Mark Podob
Where Are They Now-Mark Podob In the North American heat treat industry Mr. Mark Podob is a very well known fellow both for his time with furnace builder Ipsen and subsequently as owner of Metlab Heat Treat in Wyndmoor, PA, USA-a commercial heat treat which had the distinction of having the largest commercially available pit carburizing furnaces…
Aerospace Company Adds Drop Bottom Oven
Aerospace Company Adds Drop Bottom Oven Magellan Aerospace Limited is a global firm involved in the aerospace industry who just happens to have heat treating in many of their locations including one way out in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. According to this press release and our own knowledge at “The Monty Heat Treat News” this location recently…
Kolene Corp. Acquires Upton Industries
Kolene Corp. Acquires Upton Industries Kolene Corp., a very well known name in the field of salt bath equipment is certainly busy these days. This announcement tells us how the company has just acquired Upton Industries. It follows hard on the heels of their announcement in June of this year about the company acquiring the chemical division of…
Titanium Heat Treatment UK Installing Low Pressure Carburizing Furnace
Titanium Heat Treatment UK Installing Low Pressure Carburizing Furnace In 2016 Pawel Danielewicz who had worked for commercial heat treater TTI Group (now Aalberts) for a number of years realized his dream of starting his own heat treat shop. The result was Titanium Heat Treatment Services in Buckinghamshire, UK which specializes in heat…
Michael Reisner Appointed Managing Director Aichelin, Mödling, Austria
Michael Reisner Appointed Managing Director Aichelin, Mödling, Austria Aichelin, one of the largest furnace builders in the world recently appointed Mr. Michael Reisner to be Managing Director of their manufacturing facility in Mödling, Austria. As a sales professional, Michael Reisner was most recently managing director of a refractory group and…
Webster Industries, Tiffin, Ohio to Close Foundry, Some Heat Treatment Effected
Webster Industries, Tiffin, Ohio to Close Foundry, Some Heat Treatment Effected The announcement that specialy chain manufacturer Webster Industris in Tiffin, Ohio, USA was closing their foundry division caught the attention of “The Monty Heat Treat News” because twice over the years we have spoken about the company and their in house heat…
Michigan Fastener Manufacturer Orders 4th Mesh Belt Furnace Line
Michigan Fastener Manufacturer Orders 4th Mesh Belt Furnace Line Recently we had a press release about a fastener manufacturer in Michigan placing an order for what will be their fourth Can Eng Mesh belt furnace line-we can now offer a few more details. “Can-Eng Furnaces International Limited was recently awarded a contract to design and supply…
HI TecMetal Group (HTG) To Consolidate Two Facilities, Close Cleveland 55th St Plant
HI TecMetal Group (HTG) To Consolidate Two Facilities, Close Cleveland 55th St Plant From US commercial heat treater Hi TecMetal Group (HTG) we have this press release about a plant consolidation. Want to know how HTG compares in size to other North American commercial heat treaters? The most complete list in existence can be found at “…