Robert Joseph Adamski, May 21, 2023
Bob spent over 25 years of his career working at the Ford plant in Sterling Heights Michigan which involved him running the heat treat department. He held numerous positions at the company and was influential in many ways. Below is the full obituary. ADAMSKI, Robert "Bob" J. Age 54. May 21, 2023....
MTI Board Approves Workforce Development Strategy
The Metal Treating Institute is excited to announce the Board of Trustees have approved the most progressive strategy in recent history for workforce development in the heat treating industry. This initiative, called Jobs of Tomorrow will help attract the next generation of workers to the heat...
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]
Victoria Day Holiday
May 24th the entire British Commonwealth celebrates the birthday of Queen Victoria of England. In Canada this means that Monday May 22 will be a national holiday. Regular news items from “The Monty Heat Treat News” will resume Tuesday May 22. Did you like this article? Click here to subscribe to The...
HIP Firm Appoints General Manager for New Facility
Pressure Technology, Inc. Hot Isostatic Pressing - PTI (pressuretechnology.com) was founded in 1977 to design and manufacture Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) equipment. Over the succeeding years the company has grown and expanded and now boasts 3 facilities in the US offering “Hipping” on a commercial...
Schaeffler Adds Hydrogen Capable Burners to Roller Heath Furnace
“In 2007, an indirectly heated roller hearth furnace (built by Wienstroth Wärmebehandlungstechnik GmbH) with energy-efficient REKUMAT® burners was put into operation at a Schaeffler plant in Germany. These burners were serviced last fall at WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH in Renningen and adapted in...
NOXMAT Expands with Subsidiary in the US
NOXMAT USA, Inc. supplies industrial heating technology and services directly to US customers NOXMAT GmbH, based in Oederan, Saxony, Germany, has founded a US subsidiary at the end of 2022. NOXMAT USA, Inc, in Sterling Heights, Michigan, will support US customers as well as European customers with...
European Heat Treaters Continue to Shift to Electrically Heated Furnaces
For a wide variety of reasons including higher costs, supply concerns and CO2 emissions associated with natural gas European heat treaters are continuing to look more and more at electrically heated furnaces. This interesting article originally printed by "The BMW Group" talks about an electrically...
PowerMax Providing “Monster” Batch IQ Furnace
Based in China furnace builder PowerMax was acquired by Fengdong back in 2017-Fengdong is in turn a mammoth Chinese furnace builder, certainly one of the largest in China. PowerMax is currently manufacturing a batch IQ furnace, with a controlled atmosphere and oil quenching with a capacity of 4.5...
Thermal-Vac Technology to Add Location
When we published our annual list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America, Thermal Vac out in California made our list for the first time https://themonty.com/project/largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treats-august-2020/ Well today we have some more news coverage about this...
Commercial Heat Treater Installs Premier Furnace/Beavermatic IQF
FARMINGTON HILLS, MI, 2020: A technically and scientifically-progressive commercial heat-treating company in Canada, has installed a Premier Furnace/BeaverMatic Internal Quench Furnace (IQF) and a Premier Furnace/BeaverMatic Spray/Dunk Washer to meet customer demands for improving product...
Magnetic Shields Ltd Orders Second Solar Manufacturing Vacuum Furnace
Sellersville, PA, June 15, 2020 – Magnetic Shields Ltd of Kent, England and Solar Manufacturing have had a strong partnership since 2016. In this time, Solar Manufacturing has engineered one vacuum furnace and has been commissioned to design and build a second furnace. This new furnace will be one...
Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems Upgrades Brazing Furnace for CQI-9 Production
"Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems recently rebuilt and shipped a 24-inch, four zone continuous mesh belt brazing furnace for an automotive parts supplier in Mexico. The rebuild included a new 330 stainless steel muffle, new silicon carbide heating elements, new cooling sections, and new furnace...
Where Are They Now-Pete Callert
Located in Michigan, USA Pete Callert has been a manufacturers rep serving the heat treat industry since 1995. While he started off selling new furnaces and related heat treating equipment his career has taken a rather interesting twist in that now he reps for several commercial heat treaters-a very...
Titanium USA 2020 Cancelled
Well yet another industry trade show bites the dust as you can see in the press release further down about Titanium USA 2020 which was to be held in Chicago in October being cancelled. This means that the only remaining heat treat industry related show for 2020 that we are familiar with is Furnaces...