World’s Largest Commercial Heat Treater Releases Interim Results
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...
Supplier Named in Faulty Heat Treating of Ball Studs
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...
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]
Top Heat Treatment News Stories for the Week of July 22/2024
"The Monty Heat Treat News" Team constantly monitors the levels of interest for each of our news items, through our website and monthly magazine and also views on social media. Based upon this we are able to tell you, our readers, the most popular news items for each week. For the week starting...
American Axle & Manufacturing-15 Largest Captive Heat Treats North America
"The Monty Heat Treat News" is rather proud of the fact that for a number of years now we have been offering a heat treat industry exclusive in the form of an annual list of the largest single location captive (in-house) heat treaters in North...
Aluminum Extrusion Supplier Expands Nitriding Department
"Nitrex successfully completed a second nitriding system installation with Balexco, a leading aluminum extrusion company based in Bahrain. This marks a significant achievement in our enduring partnership, which began in 1995 when Balexco became our very first aluminum extrusion customer in the...
New Hot Isostatic Press Order?
For many years Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) occupied a fairly small but stable portion of the heat treatment market-when we think of the process, we think of castings for the aerospace industry. "Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) is a proven process for heat treatment, consolidation of powder,...
Solar Manufacturing Ships Two Mentor® Pro Furnaces to Alternative Energy Company
Solar Manufacturing shipped two identical Mentor® Pro vacuum furnaces to a customer developing advanced alternative renewable energy technologies for large-scale industrial applications. The Research and Development team of Solar Manufacturing’s affiliate, Solar Atmospheres, assisted the customer’s...
The “Heat Treat Podcast” Speaks With Bob Hill of “Solar Atmospheres”
This week our intelligent, handsome and witty host Mr. Carlos Torres of the "Heat Treat Podcast" speaks with Mr. Bob Hill, President of commercial heat treat "Solar Atmospheres of Western PA" and "Solar Atmospheres of Michigan". The entire team at "The Monty Heat Treat News" have known Bob for a...
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Heat Treatment Australia to Install Vacuum Aluminum Brazing Furnace
To give you some background to this story we can say that family owned Heat Treatment Australia is the largest commercial heat treater in Australia. Over the years the firm has grown tremendously by investing in the accredidations, approvals and equipment necessary to supply the aerospace and...
Carsten Stoelting, Aichelin Furnace, Service Group-Where Are They Now?
We see that Carsten Stoelting who for 7 years was head of AICHELIN Service GmbH made a career change just a few weeks ago as you can see in this press release; "On 1 November 2020 Carsten Stoelting has taken over the role as Managing Director of Hitachi Zosen Inova Deutschland (HZID). Furthermore,...
McKechnie Aluminum Solutions in New Zealand Installs Nitrocarburizing System
"McKechnie Aluminum Solutions, a pioneer aluminum extrusion company based in New Zealand, upgraded their manufacturing operations with the addition of a Nitrex NXK-812 compact nitrocarburizing system that boasts a 1000 kg / 2200 lb. load capacity and a working space of 800 mm diameter x 1200 mm high...
Accurate Brazing to Add a Second Hot Isostatic Press
To go with this interesting news item we have two photos. The first shows the first HIP unit installed by Accurate when installation had just been completed. The second shows one of the individuals tasked with finding work for this second unit, Ms. Jennifer McPeek who in July of this year was...
Hubbard Hall Promotions
Hubbard Hall, the oldest independent chemical distributor in the United States we have news about two promotions; “Hubbard-Hall Inc. announces the promotion of Larry Ensley to Director of Technical Applications. This promotion recognizes the contributions Ensley made during his 26-year tenure at...