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...
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]
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...
VAC AERO International and VESCO Unite in Strategic Collaboration for Industry Advancement
Last week “The Monty Heat Treat News” mentioned a collaboration agreement between Vesco and Vac Aero, here is the formal press release. “[East Windsor, January 22, 2024] – VESCO, a company of the Busch Group and leading service provider in the heat treatment industry, proudly announces the...
Circle City Heat Treat Acquired
January 18th, 2024 we announced that commercial heat treater Circle City in Indianapolis, IN had been acquired. We have a few more details to add to that story; “DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Generational Equity, a leading mergers and acquisitions advisor for privately held businesses, is pleased to...
Metex Heat Treat Installs Pit Nitriding Furnace
Our previous news item spoke of Vacu Braze in the USA finding business to be quite good these days. Another company which is "weathering the storm" well these days is Canada's largest commercial heat treater Metex Heat Treat in Mississauga, Canada. The company was in the news earlier this year when...
Sintergy Inc., Installs New Abbott Furnace Endothermic Generator
"Abbott Furnace Company has recently designed, manufactured and installed a 6,000 SCFH Endothermic Gas Generator at Sintergy Inc. in Reynoldsville, PA. The design of the Abbott SP-6000 generator is a modular concept with each module producing up to 6000scfh of endothermic gas. This generator brings...
SECO/WARWICK e-Seminar 4.0 Heat Treatment & Metallurgy
Today, Wednesday September 9th furnace builder SECO/WARWICK will be offering an online seminar about Heat Treatment and Metallurgy https://www.secowarwick.com/en/eseminar/ This looks to be a very well organized event which has been some time in the making. As we have reported in the past virtually...
Heat Treat Industry News & Updates
Swiss furnace builder Codere (whose ad can be found on this page) has a new sales person. Jean-Michel Bilger was recently hired by the company to replace Olivier Chevre who left Codere earlier this year to take a position in another industry. Commercial heat treater Metlab in Pennsylvania, USA has...
VCST China Installs Captive Heat Treatment Department
VCST https://bmtdrivesolutions.com/ is a division of the BMT Group of Belgium, a company which supplies gear drives around the world. Our interest in the company stems from the fact that their locations in Belgium and Mexico both have substantial in house heat treat departments which are being...
2020 CQI-9 Heat Treat 4th Edition Rollout Webinar
"Registration is open for the CQI-9 Heat Treat Assessment 4th edition webinar. This event scheduled for September 17, 2020 at 10:00am EST is complimentary for all attendees and will focus on the most significant changes in each section of the new edition. The CQI-9 4th edition, released in June of...