Top Heat Treatment News Stories for the Week of September 16th
Each week "The Monty Heat Treat News" looks back on our news stories from the previous week and based upon reader feedback, website anlaytics and social media "views" arrives at 3 heat treatment stories that most interested our readers. For the week starting September 13th here they are from the...
US Furnace Builder Reports Record Breaking 2024
Earlier this year we reported that furnace builder "Aichelin" of Austria had a record breaking 2023 sales year and that the company was very optimistic that 2024 would follow suit https://themonty.com/aichelin-group-sales/. Not to be outdone "SECO/WARWICK" based in Poland also announced earlier this...
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]
Vac Aero International to Celebrate 65 Years in Business
Thursday, September 26th, 2024 Vac Aero International is celebrating 65 years in business with an open house at their location in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. The company was founded by Mr. Ross Pritchard in 1959 as Canadian Vac-Hyd Processing Ltd., a subsidiary of Detroit, Michigan-based Vac-Hyd...
Centorr Vacuum Furnace New “Used” Equipment Listing
Very recently "The Monty Heat Treat News" added a rather unusual item to their "Used Equipment Listings" a vacuum sintering furnace with an operating temperature of 2530C (4586F). Manufactured by Centorr Industries of NH the furnace is still installed at a manufacturing facility and has been used...
Heat Treat Seminar Mexico
Heat Treat Industry Supplier “Fluid Cooling Systems”
It is always interesting to visit the firms that form the backbone of the supply chain for the heat treatment industry so it was with eager anticipation that Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" visited "Fluid Cooling Systems" of Burton, Michigan, USA earlier this...
(COMPLETE LIST) “The Monty’s” 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters 2024
Since 1999 “The Monty Heat Treat News” has been publishing annually a list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America based upon yearly sales, our 2023 list can be found at https://themonty.com/project/auto-draft-3/ Before we get into our 2024 list we will make a few points; Rankings...
USA Commercial Heat Treater Makes Major Investments
Back in September of 2022 we had a story about commercial heat treater "Dependable Metal Treating" in Kendallville, Indiana, USA finding success through "standardizing"-read about is further down. As an update to this story Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" visited the facility this...
Elmira Heat Treating Upgrades Controls To Super Systems
Super Systems, Inc. recently completed a controls upgrade for Elmira Heat Treat in Elmira, NY. The scope of the project included a new 9220 control system for a vacuum furnace. The 9220 is a robust vacuum furnace recipe based controller which is the command center for control, I/O, and redundant...
Is There Such a Thing as On Site Calibration of Mass Flow Controllers?
Earlier this week we posted the question below about whether anybody in the industry could offer onsite calibration of Mass Flow Controllers. One reader responded saying that he had almost 200 MFC units in his facilities and that when he sent them out for calibration it would typically involve a...
Quench Salt Crisis in The Making in North America? We Think So!
It would appear that there might be a crisis in the making for the supply of quench salts-lets provide some background. For years now a very substantial player in the supply of quench salts in North America has been Park Thermal International in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. Park has supplied the...
BMI France Receives Orders For Two Tempering Furnaces
From furnace builder BMI of France we have this news item about the company receiving orders for 2 vacuum tempering furnaces from two different customers, one in Spain and one in Italy; "We have just signed the pre-acceptance protocol for two new tempering furnaces type B55R, one of which is also...
UCONN A NN Quenchant In Short Supply
COVID related issues have effected the entire worldwide supply chain meaning that lead times for everything has increased. Furnaces, alloy components, combustion burners and quenchant have been adversely effected. Just today we were approached by a very large heat treater desperate to find a supply...
Onsite Mass Flow Controller Calibration
One of the largest captive heat treaters in North America posed to us a very interesting question, one for which we do not have a good answer; “We are looking for a source to perform onsite mass flow controller calibration to NIST requirements. To date we have not found anybody which can offer this...