Furnace Builder Celebrates 60th Anniversary With Record Order Backlog
Furnace Builder Can Eng Furnaces International of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada celebrated a very significant milestone this week-the 60th anniversary of the company and in consequence held an open house Thursday, June 20 at their Niagara Falls location. With very substantial attendance the crowd...
Doncaster Precision Castings Receives New Tempering Furnace
"Aston, PA, June 15th, 2024: L&L Special Furnace is pleased to announce the delivery of the second FB435 model furnace to Doncaster Precision Castings of Groton CT, a global leader in the aerospace, industrial gas turbine, and automotive markets. This advanced furnace will bolster Doncaster’s...
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]
Foundry Adds Second Vac Aero Vacuum Furnace
Domite® Wear Technology Inc., a foundry based in Paris, Ontario, Canada has made a very impressive name for themselves over the years by offering laminated Chrome-White-Iron wear products. A portion of their process requirement requires vacuum heat treatment, traditionally sending their heat...
Chain Manufacturer Continues to Expand Heat Treat Department
Few manufacturers are as open about their in-house heat treatment capabilities as chain manufacturer Allied Locke in Dixon, Illinois, USA. Over the course of the past two years "The Monty" has had a number of updates about how the company continues to invest and grow their heat treatment...
Aluminum Drop Bottom Oven to the Aerospace Industry
"Wisconsin Oven is pleased to announce the shipment of one (1) Electrically Heated Drop Bottom Furnace with traveling quench tank and maintenance platform. This system will be used for the solution heat treatment of aluminum parts for the aerospace industry. The drop bottom furnace has a maximum...
10 Largest North American Heat Treat Furnace Builders
“The Monty Heat Treat News” is proud to present our list of the 10 largest North American furnace builders as ranked by 2023 sales. Before we get to our list we would like to make some points about how we arrived at these rankings; · It is important to note that this list only includes furnace...
What are the average salaries for a heat treater right now?
The Monty Heat Treat News has worked closely with International Search Partners (a US search firm known for being the only recruiting firm in the world working exclusively in heat treating), for over 20 years. That relationship has blossomed into a regularly featured article, “Ask the Heat Treat...
Solar Manufacturing Appoints Nicholas Max as Chief Mechanical Engineer
Solar Manufacturing, Inc. recently announced the hiring of Nicholas Max, BSME Drexel University, as its Chief Mechanical Engineer to head up its vacuum furnace mechanical design group. Nick is also pursuing an MBA at Lehigh University in Bethlehem PA. Nick will be tasked to lead the further...
Solar Atmospheres Adds Sixth All-Metal Hot Zone Furnace
"Solar Atmospheres recently installed another all-metal hot zone vacuum furnace at its 1969 Clearview Road facility in Souderton, PA. This is Solar’s sixth all-metal hot zone furnace installation, and the fourth for their climate-controlled room. The furnace is a new Mentor model, built by sister...
Vacu Braze-A Bright Spot in Commercial Heat Treating
Yes there is a lot of doom and gloom in the heat treatment industry these days but in spite of that there are bright spots out there. For instance we mentioned just a couple of weeks ago how any firms involved in manufacturing firearms are having a banner year. We will give you another more specific...
Metex Heat Treat Installs Pit Nitriding Furnace
Our previous news item spoke of Vacu Braze in the USA finding business to be quite good these days. Another company which is "weathering the storm" well these days is Canada's largest commercial heat treater Metex Heat Treat in Mississauga, Canada. The company was in the news earlier this year when...
Sintergy Inc., Installs New Abbott Furnace Endothermic Generator
"Abbott Furnace Company has recently designed, manufactured and installed a 6,000 SCFH Endothermic Gas Generator at Sintergy Inc. in Reynoldsville, PA. The design of the Abbott SP-6000 generator is a modular concept with each module producing up to 6000scfh of endothermic gas. This generator brings...
SECO/WARWICK e-Seminar 4.0 Heat Treatment & Metallurgy
Today, Wednesday September 9th furnace builder SECO/WARWICK will be offering an online seminar about Heat Treatment and Metallurgy https://www.secowarwick.com/en/eseminar/ This looks to be a very well organized event which has been some time in the making. As we have reported in the past virtually...
Heat Treat Industry News & Updates
Swiss furnace builder Codere (whose ad can be found on this page) has a new sales person. Jean-Michel Bilger was recently hired by the company to replace Olivier Chevre who left Codere earlier this year to take a position in another industry. Commercial heat treater Metlab in Pennsylvania, USA has...