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...
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]
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,...
Gas Nitriding Replaces Salt Bath Nitrocarburizing
"T.Ş.T Lift Amortisör recently upgraded its gas spring manufacturing in Bursa, Türkiye, by integrating a Nitrex nitriding/nitrocarburizing system. This move signifies the company’s commitment to adopting environmentally sustainable practices within its operations. Through this upgrade, T.Ş.T Lift...
Specialty Heat Treat Adds Straightening to 1,000 Tons
Earlier this year Dale and Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" visited one of the 50 largest commercial heat treaters in North America, family owned Specialty Heat Treat in Houston, Texas (the story can be found...
“Experimental” Heat Treatment Leads to Recall
Regular readers of "The Monty" will need no reminder of how crucial heat treating is to the manufacturing process, however here is another example. According to this press release a supplier of ball studs to truck suppliers Mack and Volvo used an experimental heat treat process which resulted in...
Carburizing of Large Gears-“Haerterei Reese”
Recently "The Monty Heat Treat News" had an in-depth article about commercial heat treater "Haerterie Reese", a firm in Germany who has the ability to heat treat gears up to 100,000 pounds-a truly remarkable feat. The article can be found below and also...
Hauck Heat Treatment Becomes Aalberts Surface Technologies
Effective January 1, 2021 Hauck Heat Treatment who "The Monty Heat Treat News" has ranked as the second largest commercial heat treater in Europe https://themonty.com/project/largest-european-commercial-heat-treaters/ changed their name to Aalberts Surface Technologies (Aalberts Industries based in...
SECO/WARWICK Sells Very Large Pit Nitriding Furnace To North American Customer
Unfortunately we don’t have a good picture to go with this SECO press release so we are including a photo “The Monty” team took in Italy two years ago showing the largest pit nitriding furnaces we have seen anywhere in the world. As a matter of fact when NASA was processing parts for the Saturn...
Accurate Brazing Announces ITAR Registration and Compliance With The US Department of State
"Accurate Brazing, a full-service provider of specialized heat-treating solutions, announces its registration with the US Department of State for the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) through the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls at its state-of-the-art Garlington Road facility in...
“Lights Out Heat Treating”-Man Energy Solutions, Germany
“Lights Out Heat Treating” refers to a completely automated heat treat line where the operators can literally turn out the lights, walk out the door and be confident that the next morning they will return to find parts correctly heat treated. 20 years ago the concept was in its infancy but the...
Southwest Metal Treating Installs Ion Nitriding System
Down in Fort Worth, Texas, USA we find commercial heat treater Southwest Metal Treating, one of the larger commercial heat treaters in North America. The company offers most type of heat treating processes and one which they added back in 2020 was Ion (plasma) nitriding. These pictures show a...
Bodycote 2020 Financial Results
The world's largest commercial heat treater, UK based Bodycote released their full year results for the year ended 31 December 2020 this past Friday and they can be found in their entirely athttps://www.bodycote.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Bodycote-Full-year-results-2020.pdf Mr. Stephen Harris,...