“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]
Engineered HT Announces Site Manager and More “People” News
Engineered HT Announces Site Manager and More “People” News Mike Harrison, Engineered Heat Treat; Mike has certainly had a long and varied career in the North American heat treatment industry. Over the years he has acted as General Manager of the Bodycote location in Canton, Michigan, spent time with furnace builder Gasbarre and most…
German Furnace Builder Reports on 2024 Business Conditions
German Furnace Builder Reports on 2024 Business Conditions Furnace builder Rohde Schutzgasöfen GmbH of Hanau, Germany announces a recent order from a customer also in Hanau and sums up how business in 2024 was for the company (spoiler alert-it was a good year for the company). From Hanau for Hanau-this is the wish of Rohde Schutzgasöfen GmbH, a…
Automaker to Modernize Heat-Treatment Operations with UPC-Marathon
Automaker to Modernize Heat-Treatment Operations with UPC-Marathon “A leading automotive manufacturer has selected UPC-Marathon’s cutting-edge EndoFlex L generators to enhance its heat-treatment operations. As part of a forward-thinking initiative to improve manufacturing, the automaker is reinforcing its commitment to increasing production…
Aalberts Surface Technologies Adds Batch IQ Line
Aalberts Surface Technologies Adds Batch IQ Line During a visit to the Remscheid, Germany location of commercial heat treater “Aalberts Surface Technologies” Gord Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” had the chance to see a recent install at the firm which took the shape of an Ipsen XXL batch IQ line. (The original story can be found…
Why I Changed the Direction of my Heat Treat Career
Why I Changed the Direction of my Heat Treat Career Last week we mentioned that a very experienced heat treater that we have known for years, Mr. Steve Metz of commercial heat treater Aalberts Surface Technologies was changing the direction of his very distinguished career in the industry. Here in his own words Steve tells us what prompted this…
Arthur Pelissier Comments on ECM USA
Arthur Pelissier Comments on ECM USA Mr. Arthur Pelissier, CEO for furnace builder ECM of Grenoble, France recently took the opportunity to visit and comment on the ECM facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, USA. These are his thoughts; “This week, Yvan Trouillot and I had the pleasure of visiting our American subsidiary, ECM USA located in…
Isostatic Toll Services Bilbao SL Installs Second Mega HIP Unit
Isostatic Toll Services Bilbao SL Installs Second Mega HIP Unit Isostatic Toll Services Bilbao SL ,which is located in Bilbao Spain, is installing its second mega HIP unit. Isostatic Toll Services (ITS) is a Toll HIP company started in 2008, primarily for the investment casting industry. Products that frequent through ITS are: medical implants,…
Centorr Vacuum Industries Building Furnace for 3D Printing & Metal Injection Molding
Centorr Vacuum Industries Building Furnace for 3D Printing & Metal Injection Molding Centorr Vacuum Industries of Nashau, NH, USA is currently building two furnaces designed for the metal 3D-printing and metal injection molding (MIM) industries. Sintervac AM is designed for debinding and sintering. It is outfitted with a graphite hot zone…
WIsconsin Oven Ships Horizontal Quench Furnace to Defense Supplier
WIsconsin Oven Ships Horizontal Quench Furnace to Defense Supplier Out in Wisconsin we see that Wisconsin Oven recently shipped an electrically heated horizontal quench system to a defense supplier-the oven will be used for the solution treatment and aging of aluminum. The maximum temperature for this oven is 1100°F, and the normal operating…
Heat Treat 2021, September 14-16, 2021 St. Louis, MO, USA-Attendance Questions
Heat Treat 2021, September 14-16, 2021 St. Louis, MO, USA-Attendance Questions September 14th-16th will see the ASM organized “Heat Treat 2021” exhibition being held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in conjunction with Motion + Power Technology Expo 2021 (Formerly Gear Expo). ASM has always, in our opinion done an excellent job of organizing these…
AFC-Holcroft Appoints William Smith as Sales Engineer
AFC-Holcroft Appoints William Smith as Sales Engineer Furnace builder AFC-Holcroft of Wixom, Michigan has just appointed Mr. William Smith to the position of Sales Engineer. Mr. Smith has a long, impressive history in the industry having worked with captive heat treat giant American Axle in Fraser, Michigan, furnace manufacturer Gasbarre and a…
Furnace Builder Rubig Appoints Head of Sales-Industrial Furnace Division
Furnace Builder Rubig Appoints Head of Sales-Industrial Furnace Division Austrian furnace builder Rubig of Wels, Austria has appointed Mr. Stefan Haas, Head of Sales Industrial Furnaces Division-International. In this role Haas will have responsibility for the regions of the USA, Canada and France. Previous to this Haas worked with companies such…