Largest Vacuum Furnace in Turkey Commissioned
December of 2023 "The Monty Heat Treat News" posted a news item about the installation of what has been promoted as the largest vacuum furnace in Turkey, this item can be found below. We can now finish this story by adding that the furnace has entered production and that it has working dimensions of...
New Heat Treat For Tennessee, USA
It has been announced that Surgoinsville, TN, USA will be the future home of a new commercial heat treat by the name of Vulcan Thermal. Vulcan has declared that they will be investing $5 million USD in a 15,000 square foot facility at 390 Phipps Bend Road in Surgoinsville which will create about 30...
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]
USA Heat Treat Rep Firm Adds Partner
In North America the vast bulk of capital goods sales in the heat treatment industry are done through independent sales representative organizations (this would include furnace sales, alloy, controls and coolers to name just a few). One of the more successful organizations is MetalPro Resources...
Furnace Builders Unite to Offer Engineering Services?
"The Monty Heat Treat News" has learned that two manufacturers of new thermal processing systems are in serious discussions to jointly offer engineering services not just to the heat treatment industry but all industry around the world. McLaughlin Furnace Group of Avilla, Indiana and ION HEAT...
Chain Manufacturer Inaugurates New Batch IQ Line
For over 85 years "THIELE" ( https://www.thiele.de/en/) in Iserlohn, Germany has been a leading manufacturer of round steel chains and forgings in the areas of conveyor and lifting technology. During that time the company has long recognized that one of their core competencies has been heat treating...
Furnace Builder Sells Induction Division
According to this press release Aichelin Group one of the largest furnace builders in the world has sold their induction division "EMA Indutec". Read on for more details. "AICHELIN Group, specialised in industrial heat treatment of metallic parts and components, is consolidating its group of...
Acquisition in the North American HT Industry
"Kittyhawk, Inc. (“Kittyhawk” or the “Company”), backed by the Dallas-based private equity firm Trive Capital (“Trive”), is pleased to announce that it has acquired Stack HIP, LLC (“Stack HIP”) from Stack Metallurgical Group (“SMG”). The acquisition of Stack HIP represents a significant expansion of...
Steven Christopher of Super Systems Inc – The Interview
We are very pleased today to be speaking with Mr. Steven Christopher of controls company Super Systems Inc., of Cincinnati, Ohio. We have always thought of Steven as having a very unique perspective into the heat treatment industry insofar as in his position as an “installation” engineer he gets to...
Furnaces North America 2020-The Numbers Are In
Last week was the Furnaces North America 2020 Virtual Heat Treat Show, we at "The Monty" attended and our summary was posted last Friday https://themonty.com/fna-2020-virtual-show-2/ "Virtual" shows are of course brand new and nobody knows exactly what to expect from them-a viable alternative to...
Solar Manufacturing Ships Five Furnaces to Southeast US
"Solar Manufacturing recently shipped five Mentor® vacuum furnaces to a customer in the Southeast USA who provides products to a wide array of industries, including aerospace and medical. The model HFL-2018-2IQ furnaces feature a graphite-insulated hot zone, a load weight capacity of up to 250 lbs,...
HSH Härtereitechnik, Germany/Bankruptcy
Last week we had an unfortunate story about furnace builder HSH in Germany closing down. This article gives us the details (please note that this has been translated from German and while the grammar is good it is not perfect). With 49 employees this was a respectable sized company, but one which...
Monday Morning Briefing
We start off the week with an announcement from G-M Enterprises of California about an order the company just received for two horizontal vacuum furnaces; "G-M Enterprises, a Nitrex company, has received a multimillion-dollar order from a global manufacturer of metal injection molding (MIM)...
FNA 2020 Virtual Show
As we speak the Furnaces North America (FNA) 2020 virtual heat treat exhibition is in full swing and we have been checking it out. At 96 exhibitors it is substantially smaller than in past years which is no surprise but having said that the organizers have done a very good job of making this an...
The Monty Heat Treat News Magazine Is Now Available Online
“The Monty Heat Treat News”, October 2020 Magazine is Now Available Online. The world’s largest heat treat industry news source has just published the October issue. Please click the link below to get caught up on all the latest heat treat news world wide. www.themonty-october.com Did you like this...