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...
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]
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...
Largest Captive Heat Treaters North America-Dana Fairfield
"The Monty Heat Treat News" has for a number of years been publishing a list of the largest single location captive heat treaters in North America-our 2023 industry exclusive list can be found at https://themonty.com/project/11-largest-captive-heat-treats-north-america-an-industry-exclusive/ This...
Gearbox Manufacturer Adds Endo Generators
"NGC Gears, one of the world’s largest wind power gearbox manufacturers, has completed the installation of two additional EndoFlex generators from UPC-Marathon, a Nitrex company, at its new facility in Jinhu, China location. This acquisition brings the total of generator sets to five since 2022,...
Furnace Builder Appoints Managing Director/Head of Sales
As a long-standing employee of the AICHELIN Group, Philipp Krenn will not only be responsible for strategic and operational management in his new role, but also for the sales activities of AICHELIN Ges.m.b.H. in Mödling. Philipp Krenn started his career at the AICHELIN Group in 2012 and has since...
Heat Treat Stories to Tell
"The Monty Heat Treat News" is looking forward to telling our readers about two success stories in the heat treatment industry, both stories originating in Europe. "Avion Europe" headquartered in Hagen, Germany was formed in 1994 as a heat treatment manufacturer representative firm and while it...
Vacuum Carburizing/CI Hayes
In our recent articles about vacuum carburizing (Low Pressure Carburizing) we pointed out that the true pioneer in the industry was furnace builder CI Hayes in the USA. CI Hayes was acquired by furnace manufacturer Gasbarre a number of years ago and the President of the company Mr. Ben Gasbarre has...
Jacob Krashan, AVS Inc., Ayer, Massachusetts, USA
So who is Jacob (Jake) Krashan and why should we care? Jake is a long time employee of AVS Inc., a manufacturer of custom vacuum and pressure furnaces who just recently became CEO and owner of the company. Currently we have few details about Jake and how this came about, however we are expecting a...
US Government Orders Multimillion-dollar Vacuum Furnace
"The US Government recently awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to G-M Enterprises, a Nitrex company, for the supply of a turnkey vacuum system that will support the expanding heat treat operations of a military base located in the USA. This aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility...
GE Aviation, Newark, DE, USA
Starting January 21/202 “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...
HT-MX Mexico First To Achieve NADCAP For Hipping in Latin America
We have mentioned commercial heat treater HT-MX in Chihuahua, Mexico a couple of times in the past (previous press releases are further down). Those previous press releases related to the fact that the company was one of the only ones in Mexico to offer Hot Isostatic Pressing. HT-MX is now very...
Largest Vertical Vacuum Furnace Ever Built by Ipsen, Germany
What you are looking at is the largest vertical vacuum furnace ever built by Ipsen at their headquarters in Kleve, Germany. This furnace has a working height of 16.5 meters high (approximately 50’) and was installed last year at Shanghai Power Research in China. Makes for quite a picture doesn’t it?...