“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]
Super Systems Inc. Seminar – NFPA Standards And Metallurgy
Super Systems Inc. Seminar – NFPA Standards And Metallurgy SSi invites you to an informative seminar dedicated to two critical aspects of industrial safety and material science: NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) standards Metallurgy This brings together engineers industry experts maintenance personnel to explore the intersection…
Heat Treatment Names in the News
Heat Treatment Names in the News Lets see who in the heat treatment industry has made career changes recently; Jim Buntjer/Thermal Process Holdings; Jim has 10 years in the North American heat treatment industry working with commercial heat treaters such as Bluewater Thermal, Rockford Heat Treating and Service Heat Treating. Shortly before…
Lab Equipment Sale
Lab Equipment Sale “The Monty Heat Treat News” currently has almost 40 listings for “Quality Surplus Lab Equipment” and to start off the new year we are reducing the asking price of almost every single item. This is not an indefinite offer so have a quick look and see if any of these items are of interest. Did you like this article? Click…
USA Furnace Builder Acquired
USA Furnace Builder Acquired According to this press release furnace builder Bloom Engineering, Inc., in Pittsburgh, Ohio was acquired by Wabtec Corp., just before the end of 2024. While Bloom Engineering is a very substantial furnace builder their focus is more on steel mills than “real” heat treating and consequently we only run across them on…
Aalberts Surface Technologies NADCAP Approved for “HIPPING”
Aalberts Surface Technologies NADCAP Approved for “HIPPING” Quite recently “The Monty Heat Treat News” had several articles about commercial heat treater Aalberts Surface Technologies installing a large “HIP” unit (hot isostatic pressing) at their facility in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. As an update to this story the official…
Thoughts on the Paulo Heat Treat Sale
Thoughts on the Paulo Heat Treat Sale The Announcement that North American commercial heat treater Paulo had been acquired by Aalberts N.V.just last week caught many in the North American commercial heat treat industry off guard. This prompted the team at “The Monty” to reflect on the history of the two companies and how this acquistion might…
Vacuum & Atmosphere Services, Birmingham, UK
Vacuum & Atmosphere Services, Birmingham, UK This past week part of “The Monty Heat Treat News” Team has been honored to be able to spend some time with Vacuum & Atmosphere Services of Birmingham, UK (VAS for short). The firm is the largest in the UK when it comes to servicing the thermal heat treatment industry and appears to know…
XTRAC Limited Vacuum Carburizing Nascar Transmission Gears
XTRAC Limited Vacuum Carburizing Nascar Transmission Gears Next week we will be telling you how UK based XTRAC Limited is vacuum carburizing transmission gears for both NASCAR and Formula One Race Cars in this vacuum carburizing furnace. More details to come. Did you like this article? Click here to subscribe to The Monty . View our recent…
Donohoo Steel Treating, Iowa, USA Celebrates 75 Years
Donohoo Steel Treating, Iowa, USA Celebrates 75 Years Just a couple of weeks ago we mentioned how Euclid Heat Treat in Euclid, Ohio, USA was celebrating their 75th year in business. Now we are pleased to mention that Donohoo, Steel Treating in Bettendorf, Iowa, USA is also celebrating their 75th year in business. “Chris Zubroski, president of…
Schaeffler Group, Joplin, MO Completes In House Heat Treatment Department
Schaeffler Group, Joplin, MO Completes In House Heat Treatment Department Bearing manufacturer, Schaeffler Group is known as one of the largest captive heat treaters in the world with heat treat locations almost literally around the world. Back in 2018 the company announced that they were making a major investment in their Joplin, MO…
Heat Treat Economics-“The Heat Treat Podcast” Speaks With Janusz Kowalewski
Heat Treat Economics-“The Heat Treat Podcast” Speaks With Janusz Kowalewski In this weeks super exciting episode of “The Heat Treat Podcast” our host Mr. Carlos Torres speaks about “Heat Treat Economics” one of our favorite subjects at “The Monty Heat Treat News”. Our guest this week is without a doubt one of the world’s experts on…
Dedicated MIM/AM Furnace with New Binder Consolidation Technology
Dedicated MIM/AM Furnace with New Binder Consolidation Technology Recently Solar Atmospheres of Western PA acquired a used VFS HL50 external quench vacuum furnace at an auction in the Philadelphia area. The main objective of this purchase was to retrofit this older furnace with a newer hot zone and pumping technology that will help minimize and…