Sousa Corp. Expands Production with Second Ipsen Turbo2Treater Vacuum Furnace
"Newington, CONNECTICUT (June 7, 2024) – Sousa Corp., based in Newington, CT, recently installed its second Ipsen Turbo²Treater vacuum furnace to its production line, expanding its capacity to meet a steady demand for metal treating services. Andrew Sousa, Vice President of Sousa Corp., explained...
“The Heat Treat Podcast” Talks Surface Treatment
Today our very articulate host, Mr. Carlos Torres of "The Heat Treat Podcast" talks surface treatment with Mr. Craig Zimmerman of "Bluewater Thermal". Everybody in the North American heat treatment industry knows Craig but for the very small percentage that don't Craig is one of the top experts on...
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]
Heat Treatment Norway
Regular Readers of "The Monty" will know that our team is constantly searching for captive and commercial heat treat facilities around the world, this hunt took us to Longyearbyen, Norway just 2 days ago-Longyearbyen, Norway by the way is the most northerly city in the world. Alas not a heat treat...
Top 50 Heat Treater Orders Multiple Vacuum Furnaces
We received this rather interesting press release from SECO/VACUUM about a record-breaking contract they recently received-the details of the press release are leading the team at "The Monty" to engage in a little speculation. According to this press release the customer appears to be a commercial...
Thermal Process Holdings Consolidates Plants
Commercial heat treater Thermal Process Holdings is ranked as one of the 50 largest commercial heat treaters in North America by "The Monty Heat Treat News"-find out where they rank later this week when we update to our 2024 list. We understand that the firm has advised customers that effective...
World’s Largest Front Loading Vacuum Furnace
Vacuum furnace builder Signature Vacuum Systems in Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA starting construction recently on what the company was billing as "the world's largest front-loading vacuum furnace"-a claim which caught our attention. Over the past few months, we have watched with interest the...
Mark Heninger, Ipsen-The Interview
Today we are speaking with Mr. Mark Heninger, an individual whose experience in the vacuum heat treating industry is almost unsurpassed. Mark lets start off with your background-how you came to work for Ipsen, your positions over the years and what your current position entails. My Career Path:...
New Heat Treat Investment for Mexico Facility
In February of this year "The Monty Heat Treat News" reported that hydraulic pump supplier Bosch Rexroth was investing in a new in house heat treatment department at their facility near Queretaro, Mexico (original story is below). We speculated at the time as to what form this heat treat would take,...
ZF South Carolina Will NOT Be Adding More In-House Heat Treating Capacity
Recently we had a news item about auto parts supplier ZF Friedrichshafen making a major investment in their Gray Court, South Carolina facility. In that news item we speculated about whether this investment would include expanding their existing heat treat department which features a number of...
Heat Treat Podcast Speaks With Mr. John Hubbard
Today Mr. Carlos Torres of “Heat Treat Podcast” talks with an individual who we at “The Monty Heat Treat News” would consider one of the most successful commercial heat treaters of all time of all time, Mr. John Hubbard. Mr. Hubbard is Chairman at Thermal Process Holdings, a group of US based...
USA Heat Treating Inc., Doubles Austempering Capacity
In Cleveland, Ohio, USA we find long established commercial heat treater USA Heat Treating Inc. If we start off with the premise that most commercial heat treaters have a specialty we don’t have to think long to suggest that the specialty of USA Heat Treating Inc., is continuous heat treating. Cast...
Now That’s a Big Vacuum Furnace-SECO To Build 36′ High Vacuum Furnace
The press release below comes from furnace builder SECO/WARWICK and it tells us about how the company has received an order for a Vertical vacuum furnace 12 meters (36') high. This is not the first monster vacuum furnace the company has built, we are aware of one in the US in operation with...
Complete Aluminum Heat Treat Department Available-$50,000 USD For Everything!
In North America a manufacturer has to remove his entire aluminum heat treat department to make room for new equipment. All 3 items are complete, installed and ready to go for $50,000 USD; Despatch Aluminum Horizontal Heat Treat Equipment. Working dimensions of 40” X 40” X 40” with a weight capacity...
HartereiKongress 2021 Cologne, Germany
In our humble opinion the best annual heat treat show in Europe is without a doubt the HartereiKongress held each year in October in Cologne, Germany. While traditionally it has focused on the German heat treat market over the past number of years it has expanded to cover all of Europe and in the...