Aerospace Heat Treating-Safran Group S.A.
Querétaro, Mexico, April 12, 2024; Safran S.A., is a French multinational aerospace and defense corporation that designs, develops and manufactures aircraft engines, helicopter engines, spacecraft propulsion systems as well as various other aerospace and military...
Aalberts Surface Technologies Adds Nitrex System
Aalberts Surface Technologies, the second largest commercial heat treater in the world recently added more nitriding capacity at their Telford, UK facility in the form of a Nitrex system. "We're thrilled to announce the latest addition to our range of cutting-edge technologies at Aalberts...
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]
Snap On Tools to Install L & L Oven
"L&L Special Furnace Co. has shipped a model QDD29 economical dual-chamber heat-treating and tempering oven to an equipment provider located in the Midwest. The furnace will ultimately be installed in a Snap On production facility servicing tool and die support within the company's production...
Dana Corporation, Queretaro, Mexico-Top 11 Heat Treater
Auto parts giant Dana Corporation needs no introduction as one of the globe's largest suppliers of auto and truck parts (and of more interest to us at “The Monty Heat Treat News” one of the largest in house heat treaters in the world). As an example of how much heat treating the company does we can...
Andreas Fritz of HEMO Talks Cleaning Systems
We are very excited to be speaking today with Mr. Andreas Fritz, CEO of cleaning system experts "HEMO". In our opinion "HEMO" offers the most advanced cleaning technology solutions in the heat treatment industry. Read on. “The Monty Heat Treat News” is very excited to be speaking with Mr. Andreas...
Manufacturer Brings Additional Heat Treatment in House
Danfoss Power Solutions-Queretaro, Mexico (formerly Eaton Corp) is a supplier of hydraulic solutions to the heavy equipment industry. This facility with over 500 employees entered production 8 years ago and part of their manufacturing process includes a very impressive heat treat department...
Ohio Heat Treater Goes to Auction
Earlier this year we mentioned how commercial heat treater MT Heat Treat Inc. in Ohio was closing their doors, at the time "The Monty Heat Treat News" also promised updates. We have now learned that the firm has been closed since that time and that all the equipment will be going to auction in May...
Heat Treatment Mexico
This week sees the ASM Heat Treat Mexico 2024 Conference & Exposition being held in Querétaro, Mexico 9, 10 and 11 and Gord and Jordan Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” will be reporting on the entire event. Over the course of the week “The Monty” will also be visiting and reporting on...
Pratt & Whitney to Build New Plant in North Carolina, USA
This is a very interesting news item on two different levels. First our understanding is that the new facility will include a heat treat department-one of those really high end vacuum aerospace departments that everybody gets excited about. Second that this is a perfect example of a trend in the US...
Solar Atmospheres South Carolina Facility Nuclear Approved
"Solar Atmospheres, Greenville, SC facility was recently approved to NQA-1, 10CFR50 Appendix B, and 10CFR21. These standards represent the nuclear power industry’s requirements for quality operating systems within the supply chain. Additionally, the approval allows Solar to eliminate our customer’s...
Vacuum Carburizing in a Pit Furnace?
We at “The Monty” are very familiar with Low Pressure Carburizing (LPC) or Vacuum Carburizing as we generally prefer to call the process but to date we don’t believe we have seen such a process in a pit furnace. Typically what we see are horizontal style vacuum furnaces with a carburizing atmosphere...
Nitrex Nevada, USA Receives Honeywell Certification for Copper Plating
News to us that commercial heat treater Nitrex offers copper plating services but according to this press release they do. It's been a few years since we at "The Monty" visited this facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA but we still have some photos of our last visit including the one below showing the...
Bob Stecker, Bodycote
At the world’s largest commercial heat treater, Bodycote we see a new addition to the team in North America. Bob Stecker has just joined the company as Director of Operations, Automotive, CHT-NA. We believe Bob will be based out of the fairly new Romulus, Michigan facility, a facility which we have...
The Mint of Poland Buys Second SECO/WARWICK Vacuum Furnace
In this press release from furnace builder SECO/WARWICK the company brags about how they have a great deal of experience working with mints around the world-while we at "The Monty" can't validate this entirely we can say that this is the case at the Royal Canadian Mint in Canada. A number of years...