Harry Hall-A Giant in the Commercial Heat Treating Industry Passes
We regret to mention that Mr. Harry Hall, one of the best known individuals in the North American commercial heat treating industry passed away Saturday August 3, 2024. Harry was President and Owner of Aberfoyle Metal Treating in Aberfoyle, Ontario, Canada from 1989-2015, Aberfoyle was and continues...
Top Heat Treatment Industry News Items Week 31
Each week "The Monty Heat Treat News" looks at the Top 3 news items for the previous week based upon reader interest. For the week starting July 29th 2024 these were the top 3 news stories; "World’s Largest Commercial Heat Treater Releases Interim Results; UK based “Bodycote” is without a doubt...
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]
German Firm Invests in Vacuum Sintering Furnace
"Zimmer GmbH Kunststofftechnik, part of the Zimmer Group, Rheinau, Germany, has invested in an additional vacuum sintering and debinding furnace. By adding this furnace to its production facilities, the company reports that it is increasing its operational efficiency and expanding its Metal...
USA Oven Manufacturer Expanding/Moving to New Facility
"SINC Thermal, a leading manufacturer of industrial melting furnaces and ovens, has announced that it will expand in O’Fallon, Missouri, investing $4 million and creating 25 new jobs. The company’s expansion includes the relocation of its sales, administrative, and manufacturing operations to a new...
Interpower Induction adds KVA Induction to it’s Group of Companies
From the Induction heating world we have this interesting press release. "The Monty" will be following this story up with a visit to "Interpower" this upcoming week; "ALMONT, Mich. – Interpower Induction is pleased to announce its recent acquisition of KVA Induction, furthering the reach of the...
“The Monty Heat Treat News” August 2024 Edition
The link below will take you to the August 2024 edition of "The Monty Heat Treat News" the most recognized name in the Heat Treatment news industry. News items we are looking at include these; Supplier Named in Faulty Heat Treating of Ball Studs Bodycote Greenville (SC) Launches New HIP Facility...
Ben Grammer, Grammer Vacuum Technologies-The Interview
We are very pleased to be speaking today with Mr. Ben Grammer of Grammer Vacuum Technologies (GVT) of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA. Ben and his father Bob have spent their entire lives in the heat treatment industry, a large part of which has centered around “Moly” (Molybdenum). Ben I appreciate the...
Furnaces North America 2024… The Clock is TICKING
"Every day the clock of change is ticking. Customer demands, safety and compliance requirements, and maximizing throughput with labor shortages are all pressing every heat treater’s operations. And the pace of change isn’t going to slow down. It’s just going to get faster. The question is, “What...
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania Achieves Nadcap Accreditation for Laboratory
"Solar Atmospheres of Western PA (SAWPA) successfully achieves Nadcap AC7101/4 accreditation for their captive metallography laboratory and becomes an approved Boeing Process Source (D1-4426). The accreditation will allow SAWPA to test for microhardness, surface contamination, intergranular...
Pit Carburizing Furnaces to Hit The North American Market
Recently a large gear manufacturer in the US closed their doors and the end result is that all of the manufacturing equipment is hitting the used market in North America. While the bulk of the equipment has to do with machining the company also maintained an impressive in house heat treat...
Commercial Heat Treater Thermi Lyon Celebrates 60 Years in Business
In France we see that one of the country’s oldest commercial heat treaters Thermi-Lyon is celebrating a very important milestone-60 years in business. It’s interesting to see that the firm has a total of 9 locations, 180 employees and revenue in 2019 of 24 million euros. "The French Thermi-Lyon...
MAN Energy Solutions, Germany Installs HEMO Cleaning System
Last week, December 7th to be exact we had a news item about a brand new state of the art heat treat at a company by the name of MAN Energy Systems in Augsburg, Germany https://themonty.com/man-energy-solutions-opens-state-of-the-art-heat-treat-in-germany/ The news item included a video of the...
World’s Largest Capacity Aluminum Aerospace Forging Heating Furnace
We're going back a bit for this news item. In 2018 we had a press release about how Canadian furnace builder Can-Eng Furnaces of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada was getting ready to ship what they felt was the worlds largest capacity aluminum aerospace forging heating furnace. Recently while going...
Aichelin Two Row Pusher Furnace Available
Now isn't this a beauty of a furnace? It is only 12 years old and we have it available at a location in Germany https://themonty.com/project/itemc366-aichelin-2-row-pusher-furnace-excellent-condition-located-in-europe/. It and other used furnaces located in Europe can be found on our European page...











