Happy 4th of July!
Happy 4th of July! Happy 4th of July! The offices of WG Montgomery Ltd., “The Monty Heat Treat News” will be closed Friday, July 3rd due to the USA July 4th celebration. Regular news items will resume Monday, July 6th.
Fastner Manufacturer Installs Automated “Ipsen” Batch IQ Line
Fastner Manufacturer Installs Automated “Ipsen” Batch IQ Line For this news item we go to Brazil where we see that fastener manufacturer Hassmann S.A has just commissioned a fully automated chamber furnace line (batch IQ to our North American readers) provided by Ipsen of Kleve, Germany-we will let “Ipsen” tell the rest of the story; “Hassmann…
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]
Agricultural Firm Invests in Heat Treatment Department
Agricultural Firm Invests in Heat Treatment Department Located in Perry, Iowa, USA, Osmundson Mfg., is a fifth generation supplier of “ground engaging wear parts”, parts destined entirely for the agricultural industry. The firm recently made a major investment in their in-house heat treating department by buying 7 mesh belt heat treat lines from…
Tom Morrison & “Furnaces North America”
Tom Morrison & “Furnaces North America” Today is the second and final day of the “Furnaces North America” heat treat exhibition in Columbus, Ohio, USA and the universal opinion is that it has been a very productive event. The credit for this should go to the “Metal Heat Treating Institute” (MTI) organization which organized…
Fired Up Crowd on Day 1 of Furnaces North America 2024
Fired Up Crowd on Day 1 of Furnaces North America 2024 Furnaces North America (FNA) 2024, the leading trade show for the heat treating industry in North America, kicked off this week in Columbus, Ohio, with a full house at Monday night’s opening. Attendees and exhibitors gathered for two hours of high-powered networking, discussing key industry…
Furnaces North America/Aerospace Testing & Pyrometry
Furnaces North America/Aerospace Testing & Pyrometry And what did we learn today at the Furnaces North America (FNA) show in Columbus, Ohio, USA? That Aerospace Testing & Pyrometry (ATP) is probably the largest Pyrometry Solutions Provider in North America. According to Andrew Bassett, founder of the company they now have 10 North…
Things We Are Learning At Furnaces North America
Things We Are Learning At Furnaces North America ” Furnaces North America ” (FNA) is now in full swing and ” The Monty ” is looking forward to keeping our readers up to date with the latest and greatest innovations in the industry. First up we see that ” McLaughlin Furnace Group ” is stepping up to fill a partial void in the industry with the…
Top Heat Treatment News Items for the Week October 7th 2024
Top Heat Treatment News Items for the Week October 7th 2024 Regular readers of ” The Monty Heat Treat News ” will know that each week we review the top 3 heat treatment news stories of the previous week based upon readers response and social media. For the week starting October 7th, 2024 these are the top three stories (we will add that since…
“Lights Out Heat Treating”-Man Energy Solutions, Germany
“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…
Southwest Metal Treating Installs Ion Nitriding System
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
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 at https://www.bodycote.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Bodycote-Full-year-results-2020.pdf Mr. Stephen Harris, Group Chief…
Vacuum Carburizing for Large Gear Applications-Stack Metallurgical Group
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…
MB Aerospace, Tajecina, Poland Adds Vacuum Furnace Capacity
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…
SITES Medical Expands Manufacturing Capabilities with Two Ipsen Furnaces
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…