“Super 30 Allcase”, Electric-What’s It Worth?
On a regular basis "The Monty Heat Treat News" looks at common, used heat treat furnaces and suggests what they are worth on the used market-today we look at electrically heated "Super 30 Allcase" furnaces. The "Super 30 Allcase" furnace is manufactured by one of the largest new furnace builders...
Top Heat Treat News Stories Week of September
For the week starting September 2, 2024 the top 3 heat treatment stories globally as ranked by "The Monty Heat Treat News" include these; "Metals Technology Receivership Sale? August 12th of this year “The Monty” had a news item about the second largest commercial heat treater in the Chicago...
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]
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"The Monty Heat Treat News" is far more than the heat treatment industry's foremost source for news and trends in the industry. For instance our articles section https://themonty.com/articles-interviews/ includes these industry exclusives; The 15 Largest Single Location Captive Heat Treaters in...
Pharmaceutical Industry Supplier Orders Vacuum Furnace
"Adamus, a European manufacturer of punch tools and spare parts for tablet presses, capsule presses and blister machines used in the pharmaceutical industry, has ordered a Vector vacuum furnace to efficiently heat treat a wide range of punches used in tablet production. The Vector vacuum furnace on...
Ipsen Promotes Chris Martin to Regional Service Manager for the Southeast
"Ipsen USA announces the promotion of Chris Martin to Regional Service Manager for the Southeast United States. In his new role, Martin will be responsible for leading a team of seven that includes six Field Service Engineers and one Service Administrator. Since joining Ipsen in 2018, Martin has...
Roland Caminades, Avion Europe and the European Heat Treat Market
Earlier this year “The Monty Heat Treat News” had the opportunity to visit heat treat industry supplier “Avion Europe” at their headquarters in Hagen, Germany-the end result was this article; https://themonty.com/avion-europe-a-growing-force-in-the-german-heat-treat-market-part-1-of-2/ We promised...
Metals Technology Receivership Sale?
August 12th of this year "The Monty" had a news item about the second largest commercial heat treater in the Chicago area, "Metals Technology Corp." entering receivership (the original story is further down). The story caught us off guard because this is a much larger than average commercial heat...
Gear Manufacturer Auctioning Vacuum Carburizing Furnaces
Bidding is now open for an auction being held in Vienna, Austria at Opel Gear Manufacturing. The now closed facility manufactured components for automotive transmissions and amongst the items for auction is a large amount of heat treatment equipment. This includes ECM 6-Chamber ICBP vacuum...
“Lights Out Heat Treating”-Man Energy Solutions, Germany
“Lights Out Heat Treating” refers to a completely automated heat treat line where the operators can literally turn out the lights, walk out the door and be confident that the next morning they will return to find parts correctly heat treated. 20 years ago the concept was in its infancy but the...
Southwest Metal Treating Installs Ion Nitriding System
Down in Fort Worth, Texas, USA we find commercial heat treater Southwest Metal Treating, one of the larger commercial heat treaters in North America. The company offers most type of heat treating processes and one which they added back in 2020 was Ion (plasma) nitriding. These pictures show a...
Bodycote 2020 Financial Results
The world's largest commercial heat treater, UK based Bodycote released their full year results for the year ended 31 December 2020 this past Friday and they can be found in their entirely athttps://www.bodycote.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Bodycote-Full-year-results-2020.pdf Mr. Stephen Harris,...
Vacuum Carburizing for Large Gear Applications-Stack Metallurgical Group
Stack Metallurgical Group, quite possibly the largest commercial heat treater on the US West Coast recently released a “White Paper on Vacuum Carburizing of Large Gears” in which they do a very good job of explaining the advantages of vacuum carburizing as it pertains to large gears. Having one of...
MB Aerospace, Tajecina, Poland Adds Vacuum Furnace Capacity
From MB Aerospace in Poland we have this press release about the company adding a bottom load vacuum furnace to their facility in Tajecina. MB is quite a large in house heat treater with vacuum furnaces in most of their locations. Partly this is a result of their acquiring the Polish heat treat...
SITES Medical Expands Manufacturing Capabilities with Two Ipsen Furnaces
Ipsen was awarded an order from SITES Medical for two TurboTreater® model H3636 2 bar vacuum furnaces. SITES Medical is an orthopedic technology development company that invents and de-risks new technologies and collaborates with OEMs to bring them to market and drive mutual growth. Although SITES...