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...
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]
Lucifer Furnaces-The Official Press Release
Lucifer Furnaces, a leading manufacturer of heat treating furnaces and ovens for the last 80 years, has added Brett Wenger to its leadership team as Vice President of Sales. Brett will lead all sales activities for the company and will work closely with the rest of the leadership team on all aspects...
Daimler Truck AG Optimizes Furnace Insulation to Increase Energy Efficiency
The new brickwork for two industrial furnaces required due to wear provided an opportunity for AICHELIN Service in late 2022 to fundamentally optimize the thermal insulation of the plants together with the customer. AICHELIN Service has successfully implemented similar projects in the past at the...
Captive/Commercial Heat Treater Hosts Uddeholm Heat Treat Academy
Uddeholm is known around the world as a leading manufacturer of tool steel for industrial tools and as such has state of the art heat treating facility around the globe. Just last week they held their "Business Academy – Heat Treatment" at their partners location, Ramada ACOS in Portugal. We have...
Hestia Heat Treat, Wisconsin, USA Update
Over the course of the past couple of years we have reported on the progress of commecial heat treater "Hestia" in Racine, Wisconsin, USA. Their most recent developments included adding several used batch IQ furnaces, the photo attached shows that installation of the furnaces is almost...
Furnace Manufacturer Poised to Deliver 2 Mesh Belt Furnace Lines
We move to Italy for this news item. Meapforni is a manufacturer of a variety of different styles of heat treatment furnaces, covering everything from sealed quench to mesh belt furnaces with a number of different styles in between. They are very pleased to announce that they are just completing two...
Controlling the Nitriding Layers and Process with Metallography By Dr. Edward Rolinski, Jesse Hyder & Mike Woods
Nitriding is the thermochemical process for producing surface layers in ferrous alloys, such as steels and cast irons used for making various mechanical components and tools [1]. Ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC) is a process of nitriding doped with a small amount of carbon [1]. Producing the best...
The Monty Heat Treat Newsletter June, 2020
The link below will take you to the June 2020 issue of “The Monty”, the World’s Largest Heat Treat Industry News Source. In this issue you can read about the 30 largest commercial heat treaters in North America-a “Monty” exclusive, learn about the passing of a well known individual in the heat treat...
Pete Kerbel, Vice President of Sales, Ipsen-The Video Interview
Today we are pleased to present to you a first for us at “The Monty” a video interview with Mr. Peter Kerbel, Vice President of Sales at furnace builder Ipsen. In this interview Gord Montgomery of “The Monty” and Pete Kerbel discuss a number of topics including how the COVID 19 virus is changing the...
Monday Morning Briefing
Our Monday Morning Briefing for June 1, 2020 starts off in Italy at a commercial heat treater by the name of Grupo TTN. The company is in the news today as they are just installing a very large batch IQ furnace built by Italian furnace builder Meapforni. The furnace has a capacity of 3,000 Kg (6,600...
HK 2020
Earlier this week we mentioned how HK 2020, the annual heat treat exhibition in Cologne, Germany will have a different format this year because of COVID-19. We spoke with Sonja Mueller of AWT who is head of the organizing committee for the event and this is what she has to day. “The executive board...
Bodycote Trading Update
The world’s largest commercial heat treater just released a trading update for the first 4 months of this year. This is a condensed version with the full version available at https://www.bodycote.com/ “Bodycote, the world's leading provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing...
Krohne UK Installs Largest Horizontal Vacuum Furnace in the UK
Captive heat treater and supplier of industrial process instrumentation Krohne has just installed the largest horizontal vacuum furnace in the UK. The furnace which was supplied by Ipsen, has working dimensions of 1200mm x 1200mm x 2400mm with an all moly hot zone and 6 bar quenching. It was...