USA Commercial Heat Treat Facility to Close
"The Monty Heat Treat News" is seeing very unstable times around the world these days in the commercial heat treat industry with far more closures of plants than the normal attrition rate. A recent example would be in California, USA where we understand the "Bodycote" facility in Westminster will...
Heat Treating as it Should Be-SFS Group AG
Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" had the absolute pleasure of visiting one of the finest examples of an "in house" heat treat department that we have ever seen-SFS in Heerbrugg, Switzerland. Lets start off with this summary of SFS; "SFS is a worldwide leading supplier of...
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]
Cincinnati Radiator Brings Aluminum Brazing In-House with New Ipsen VAB Furnace
Cincinnati Radiator, a leading American manufacturer of radiators and cooling products, has recently expanded its production capabilities at its Fairfield, Ohio facility with the addition of a new Ipsen Vacuum Aluminum Brazing (VAB) furnace. This investment enables Cincinnati Radiator to perform...
New “Ipsen” Sealed Quench Installation
Three generations of "Montgomerys" at "The Monty Heat Treat News" have been seeing images such as this one and it never gets tiring. What you are looking at is a fairly new "Ipsen" XXL Model, Sealed Quench (Batch IQ for our North American readers) furnace line in Europe that we viewed just the other...
“The Monty” Visits Switzerland’s Largest Commercial Heat Treater
As a "prelude" to attending HK24, Germany's largest heat treatment exhibition of 2024 in Cologne, Germany Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" took the opportunity to visit a number of heat treaters in Switzerland, two of which we have already commented on "Manufacturer Successfully...
Solar Atmospheres of Michigan Welcomes Charles Caldwell as Quality Manager
Solar Atmospheres of Michigan Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Charles (Charlie) Caldwell as the Quality Manager for its new facility in Chesterfield. With over a decade of experience in the commercial heat treating industry, Charlie brings a wealth of expertise in quality control,...
Top 3 Heat Treatment News Items for the Week of September 30th
The most read heat treatment news items from "The Monty Heat Treat News" for the week starting September 30th according to our readers are these; "Charlie Hushek & Ceramic Diffusion Technologies"; Charlie Hushek is a 5th generation heat treater at family-owned commercial heat treater Phoenix...
Manufacturer Successfully Combines Captive & Commercial Heat Treatment
September 3rd of this year we had a news item about DUAP AG, a Swiss manufacturer of fuel injection systems investing in more Heat Treating Capacity. Based upon this story Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" visited the firm in Herzogenbuchsee, Switzerland Thursday of last week-a very...
CAN-ENG Furnaces International Lands Large Mesh Belt Furnace Orders
To compliment this very interesting press release we are including 2 photos. The first shows a 6,000 pound per hour CAN-ENG mesh belt furnace line being installed at Metex Heat Treating a couple of years ago. The second photo shows the new owner of CAN-ENG, Mr. Victor Oreskovich along with Gord...
Molybdenum (Moly) Prices Rising-Expected to Rise Further
Molybdenum, a metal used in the heat treat industry because of its’ high temperature resistance is primarily seen in the heat treat industry in vacuum applications. Since the beginning of 2021 Molybdenum pricing has increased 27 USD/Kg or 114.89% according to trading on a contract for difference...
Gear Manufacturer to Add Pit Carburizing Furnaces-Decides on Used Equipment
Earlier this year we had a news item about Merit Gear in Wisconsin closing their facility and selling the heat treat furnaces in an auction. It turns out that a large gear manufacturer bought all of the equipment (at least all of the good stuff) before the auction took place. Their plans are to...
Vacuum & Atmosphere Services UK Makes “People” Changes
In the UK we see that Vacuum & Atmosphere Services has made several personnel changes. VAS is one of the major suppliers to the heat treatment industry in the country. "The Monty Heat Treat News" team is excited to announce that we will be spending some time with VAS September of this year...
Stackpole Powder Metal Group Acquires Zimmermann of Germany
You might ask why this news item deserves to grace the pages of "The Monty Heat Treat News". The reason is simple, Stackpole was almost the first company in the world to adopt vacuum carburizing for powdered metal transmission components and has several very large in house heat treating departments...
L&L Special Furnace Company
L&L Special Furnace Company has shipped a floor-standing box furnace used for ceramic coating applications in the aerospace industry to a leader in the coating industry located in eastern Canada. The L&L Model XLE214 is used for curing and bonding ceramic coatings to various steel bodies...