Doncaster Precision Castings Receives New Tempering Furnace
"Aston, PA, June 15th, 2024: L&L Special Furnace is pleased to announce the delivery of the second FB435 model furnace to Doncaster Precision Castings of Groton CT, a global leader in the aerospace, industrial gas turbine, and automotive markets. This advanced furnace will bolster Doncaster’s...
Foundry Adds Second Vac Aero Vacuum Furnace
Domite® Wear Technology Inc., a foundry based in Paris, Ontario, Canada has made a very impressive name for themselves over the years by offering laminated Chrome-White-Iron wear products. A portion of their process requirement requires vacuum heat treatment, traditionally sending their heat...
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]
Chain Manufacturer Continues to Expand Heat Treat Department
Few manufacturers are as open about their in-house heat treatment capabilities as chain manufacturer Allied Locke in Dixon, Illinois, USA. Over the course of the past two years "The Monty" has had a number of updates about how the company continues to invest and grow their heat treatment...
Aluminum Drop Bottom Oven to the Aerospace Industry
"Wisconsin Oven is pleased to announce the shipment of one (1) Electrically Heated Drop Bottom Furnace with traveling quench tank and maintenance platform. This system will be used for the solution heat treatment of aluminum parts for the aerospace industry. The drop bottom furnace has a maximum...
10 Largest North American Heat Treat Furnace Builders
“The Monty Heat Treat News” is proud to present our list of the 10 largest North American furnace builders as ranked by 2023 sales. Before we get to our list we would like to make some points about how we arrived at these rankings; · It is important to note that this list only includes furnace...
What are the average salaries for a heat treater right now?
The Monty Heat Treat News has worked closely with International Search Partners (a US search firm known for being the only recruiting firm in the world working exclusively in heat treating), for over 20 years. That relationship has blossomed into a regularly featured article, “Ask the Heat Treat...
Solar Manufacturing Appoints Nicholas Max as Chief Mechanical Engineer
Solar Manufacturing, Inc. recently announced the hiring of Nicholas Max, BSME Drexel University, as its Chief Mechanical Engineer to head up its vacuum furnace mechanical design group. Nick is also pursuing an MBA at Lehigh University in Bethlehem PA. Nick will be tasked to lead the further...
Chris Constable Joins the Solar Atmospheres of San Diego Team
"Solar Atmospheres’ newest acquisition, Solar Atmospheres of San Diego, is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Constable as their new Vice President of Operations. Chris brings with him nearly 25 years of Heat Treating experience that includes quality, operations, management, plant safety,...
“The Heat Treat Podcast”
“The Monty Heat Treat News” is proud to be presenting on a weekly basis “The Heat Treat Podcast”, a series of discussions with some of the most knowledgeable individuals in the global heat treatment industry. These individuals represent the captive heat treating industry, industry suppliers and...
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania Expands for the Future
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA recently took occupancy of a brand new 15,000 square foot “connector” building. This building joins the existing 80,000 square foot workspace, which houses some of the largest vacuum furnaces in the world, to its current 10,000 square foot Nadcap laboratory, testing...
Furnace Component Provider Suffers Fire
In Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA we find Steeltech Limited, a company which for almost 100 years has been providing heat and corrosion resistant products. In other words the company makes base trays, cast baskets, radiant tubes and all those other items which go into heat treatment furnaces. This past...
Aerospace Supplier To Auction Off Heat Treat Equipment
In San Antonio, Texas, USA we have learned that Spirit AeroSystems Inc. will be auctioning off some heat treat equipment due to the company consolidating operations. There are a few odds and ends but what is rather interesting is an Ajax Electric Salt Bath System. Typically these are not big sellers...
Virginia Metal Treating Completes New Facility
East Carolina Metal Treating Inc., in Raleigh, NC, USA is a very impressive, family owned commercial heat treat which just narrowly missed making our list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America in 2020...
Did Bodycote Indirectly Help in the Development of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine?
UK based Bodycote is known around the globe as the world's largest commercial heat treater so it is rather odd to think that they indirectly helped in the development of the BioNTech/Pfizer RNA vaccine BNT162b2 for preventing COVID-19 infections-we will tell you how. In 2007 with the help of "The...