THE MONTY HEAT TREAT NEWS

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...

"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...

On a regular basis "The Monty" offers "Heat Treatment Names in the News", a compilation of individuals in the heat treatment industry who have made recent changes. These names make our list for the week of July 30, 2024.   Glenn Ottinger, ThermoFusion. After 16 years with the company Mr. Glenn...

Furnace builder ROHDE Schutzgasöfen GmbH of Hanau, Germany is pleased to announce the shipment of two pit nitriding furnaces to a customer in Switzerland. The furnaces are models TSG 150/200 and SG 70/100, the fully equipped and tested units shipped earlier this week on 3 transport trucks. Natasha...

UK based "Bodycote" is without a doubt the globe's largest commercial heat treater, the firm just released their interim financial results for the six months to 30 June 2024. While the full details are available at https://www.bodycote.com/investors/ Bodycote Investors - Creating superior...

Recently "The Monty Heat Treat News" posted a news item entitled "Experimental Heat Treatment Leads to Recall" https://themonty.com/experimental-heat-treatment-leads-to-recall/ While it served as yet another reminder of how important heat treating is to the manufacturing process it was rather short...

In Augsburg, Germany we find that MAN Energy Solutions recently opened a state of the art commercial heat treat facility, a project which started way back in 2016. In that year demolition of the old plant started with new equipment from Ipsen and Cleaning solutions company HEMO starting to arrive in...

In Germany we see that furnace builders IVA & Schmetz will be combining their two locations into one and at the same time expanding their capacities as you can see in this press release. To provide some more background to this story we also include a press release the company did in 2019 telling...

At “The Monty” we pride ourselves on knowing virtually every commercial heat treater in North America however this company down in Texas we have never heard of before. Several readers mentioned to us this fire which occurred over the weekend, we have no further details we can add. “LA PORTE, Texas —...

"ALP Aviation is increasing its production capacity and expanding process capability with the purchase of an additional Vector vacuum furnace from SECO/WARWICK.  This purchase is the 4th installation for this client during 13 years of successful cooperation.  The first order for vacuum technology...

North Americas second largest commercial heat treater as rated by "The Monty" Paulo has made some changes in their sales department. https://themonty.com/project/largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treats-august-2020/ "The COVID-19 Pandemic has been transformational to many businesses.  As...

Back on September 24, 2020 we mentioned a massive fire at the Colfor Manufacturing facility in Malvern, Ohio, USA. While the cause of the fire was nothing to do with heat treating Colfor and AAM are very large captive heat treaters. As a follow up to this story the fire was so severe that the plant...