Ipsen USA Welcomes Max Stormo to Souderton, PA
Ipsen welcomes Max Stormo as the new Ipsen Customer Service (ICS) Operations Manager as the company streamlines its aftermarket services in Souderton, PA. Stormo comes to Ipsen after an extensive career working as a manufacturing operations leader in Texas, and a recent role as Vice President of...
Heat Treat Assets Auctioned Off
In 2023 MT Heat Treat in Mentor, Ohio, USA was forced to close with the assets ceased by the bank and sent to auction just last week (our original stories are below). With the auction now concluded we can give you an update. As expected all of the ancillary equipment which included a number 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]
Nitrided Titanium Alloys vs Nitrided Stainless Steels Authored by Dr. Edward Rolinski of Advanced Heat Treat Corp.
Applications of stainless steel (SS) have been known for over a hundred years. Enhancing tribological properties of these alloys can be achieved by using nitriding [1, 2]. However, the standard nitriding process has limited abilities to improve corrosion resistance of SS unless it is used at very...
Avion Europe a Growing Force in the German Heat Treat Market
A recent visit by “The Monty Heat Treat News” to AVION Europa GmbH & Co., based in Hagen, Germany revealed to us a firm which is thriving as a provider of heat treating sales and services to the German heat treatment industry-both captive and commercial. Our hosts, co owners Mr. Roland Caminades...
Aichelin Enters Vacuum Furnace Market
Yesterday we had a press release from Austrian furnace builder Aichelin Group about the firm forming a joint venture with Turkish furnace builder Sistem Teknik to "produce and distribute industrial vacuum heat treatment technologies and services in Europe"...
Furnace Builder Aichelin to Offer Vacuum Furnaces
"The AICHELIN Group and Sistem Teknik have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture in Austria. This joint venture will produce and distribute industrial vacuum heat treatment technologies and services in Europe. The AICHELIN Group is thus adding a promising segment to its existing product...
New Commercial Heat Treat in Tennessee
According to this press release a German company by the name of BorTec will be setting up a commercial heat treat facility in Johnson City, TN. Once completed the facility will offer "boronizing"; "Boriding, or Boronizing, is a thermo-chemical surface hardening process used to improve the life and...
Largest North American Captive Heat Treats-Tinker Air Force Base
As we work towards our 2024 list of the "15 Largest Single Location Captive Heat Treats in North America" we have another new listing, one that has not appeared on our previous lists and a very unusual one at that. Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma is one of the largest US Air Force bases in the...
Merit Gear, Antigo, Wisconsin, Closed-Heat Treating Furnaces to be Auctioned Off
Back in 2019 it was announced that Merit Gear in Antigo, Wisconsin, USA would be closing in the first quarter of 2020 (the original announcement is below). This prediction did indeed come to pass and the entire gear facility was closed in March of last year. This closing makes our news section today...
New York, USA Company Adding Additional Batch Integral Quench Capacity
It always brings joy to our hearts when we see captive and commercial heat treaters alike adding additional heat treating capacity. Such is the case with a firm in Upstate New York, USA who are finding business good enough to add to their already significant heat treating capacity. In this...
GE Aviation Furnace Auction, Newark, DE, USA-January 21/2021
Starting January 21/2021 "The Branford Group" will be auctioning off equipment at the GE Aviation facility in Delaware, USA. Regular readers of "The Monty" will know that we announce upcoming auctions featuring surplus heat treating equipment and provide our opinion about how saleable the equipment...
L&L Special Furnace Co., Ships Box Furnace to New Pratt & Whitney Facility
Our understanding is that this box furnace is destined for the new Pratt & Whitney facility in Asheville, NC, a location which will feature a brand new heat treating center. This project was announced back in 2020 and the plant is scheduled to open in early 2022. “L&L Special Furnace Co....
People News-Heat Treating in North America
Josh Hunter recently became Assistant Plant Manager at commercial heat treater Braddock Metallurgical at the firms Atlanta, Georgia facility. Josh is a long time heat treater having worked at companies such as Bodycote; "Braddock Metallurgical is proud to announce the addition of a new Assistant...
Nominations for the 25 Most Influential People in the North American Heat Treating Industry
Way back, November 30th to be exact we started our nomination process for our semi-annual list of the 25 Most Influential People in the North American Heat Treating Industry and since that time we have received hundreds of very interesting suggestions. Well we are almost ready to put together our...