American Heat Treating Alabama Appoints President
Commercial heat treater American Heat Treating Alabama in Anniston, Alabama very recently appointed Ms. Jennifer McPeek as President. Jennifer brings a lifetime of experience in the heat treatment industry in the US Southeast with her, having worked with companies such as Suncoast Heat Treating,...
Texas Heat Treater Moves into New Larger Location-Adds Equipment
Worldwide Heat Treat https://worldwideheattreat.com/ was founded by Mr. Robert Gutierrez a well known figure in the Texas heat treat industry several years ago as a commercial heat treater. Never one to let the grass grow under his feet Robert just 2 months ago moved into a new larger facility and...
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]
SKF Removes Furnace Pilot Burners For Energy Savings
"Together, the rolling bearing manufacturer SKF Group and the hardening furnace manufacturer AICHELIN Service GmbH have investigated the operation of roller hearth furnaces at SKFs Schweinfurt site and developed a process to massively reduce CO2 emissions. Until now, most furnaces in the SKF...
Heat Treatment in Texas-Lone Star Heat Treating
Over the course of the past week we have featured several heat treaters in the Houston, Texas. USA heat treatment market and pointed out what should be obvious to everybody-everything in Texas is indeed bigger. A prime example of this would be fourth generation commercial heat treater “Lone Star...
Heat Treating in Texas is Different-Specialty Heat Treat
Texans are always very proud of the fact that everything in Texas is bigger and heat treating is no exception. To make a very broad generalization most heat treating in North America involves parts that weigh under 100 pounds, auto components, firearms, fasteners, aerospace parts to name a few but...
“The Monty” Visits Top 50 Heat Treater in Texas
On an annual basis since 1997 “The Monty Heat Treat News” has been putting together a list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America and on this list we find Lark Heat Treating in Houston, Texas https://www.larkheat.com/ which is the subject of this news item. While Gord Montgomery...
New Heat Treat Investment for Mexico Facility
June 2023 Bosch Rexroth announced that they had started production at a brand new facility in Querétaro, Mexico (the announcement can be found further down in this article). When the facility orignally opened it did not include in house heat treating capabilities although long term that was the...
USA Tool Manufacturer to Add More Heat Treatment Capacity
At least to North Americans “Snap-on Tools” is recognized by every single individual who has wielded a wrench at some point in the their life. According to this press release a large investment at the company’s facility in Elizabethton, TN will include more heat treating capacity, most likely in the...
Congressman Fitzpatrick Visits Solar Manufacturing
"Sellersville, PA, September 14, 2020 – Recently, Brian Fitzpatrick, District 1 US Congressman, Bucks County, Pa., toured the Solar Manufacturing plant in Sellersville, Pa. He also addressed the facilities 55 employees outdoors in their front parking lot, discussing his top priorities in Congress –...
Vacu Braze Installs TM Vacuum Furnace, Chromalloy UK adds “Titan” Furnace and More Heat Treatment News
Recently we mentioned how Chromalloy in the UK was installing a new Titan vacuum furnace. We now have an official press release from Vacuum & Atmosphere Services in the UK who sold and installed the system; "VAS are extremely pleased to announce the delivery, build up and install of a brand new...
An interview with Mr. Shlok Sundaresh , Engineering Manager-TS USA (HEF Group-North America).
HEF Group, one of the worlds leading providers of Liquid Nitriding and Physical Vapor Deposition Technologies. Today we have An interview with Mr. Shlok Sundaresh, Engineering Manager-TS USA (HEF Group-North America). Shlok to start off perhaps you could give us some background information about...
Used Vacuum Furnace Systems Immediately Available at ECM USA, Inc.
"Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, September 9th, 2020 --- ECM USA has recently acquired two used Flex 600 TG Vacuum Furnace Systems. Both systems are available from 2 to 8 cells with top-down 20 bar nitrogen gas quenches; optional oil quench. The first system was built in 2003, but completely renewed in...
Solar Atmospheres Adds Sixth All-Metal Hot Zone Furnace
"Solar Atmospheres recently installed another all-metal hot zone vacuum furnace at its 1969 Clearview Road facility in Souderton, PA. This is Solar’s sixth all-metal hot zone furnace installation, and the fourth for their climate-controlled room. The furnace is a new Mentor model, built by sister...
Vacu Braze-A Bright Spot in Commercial Heat Treating
Yes there is a lot of doom and gloom in the heat treatment industry these days but in spite of that there are bright spots out there. For instance we mentioned just a couple of weeks ago how any firms involved in manufacturing firearms are having a banner year. We will give you another more specific...