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...
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]
Chris Constable Joins the Solar Atmospheres of San Diego Team
"Solar Atmospheres’ newest acquisition, Solar Atmospheres of San Diego, is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Constable as their new Vice President of Operations. Chris brings with him nearly 25 years of Heat Treating experience that includes quality, operations, management, plant safety,...
Gas Nitriding Replaces Salt Bath Nitrocarburizing
"T.Ş.T Lift Amortisör recently upgraded its gas spring manufacturing in Bursa, Türkiye, by integrating a Nitrex nitriding/nitrocarburizing system. This move signifies the company’s commitment to adopting environmentally sustainable practices within its operations. Through this upgrade, T.Ş.T Lift...
Specialty Heat Treat Adds Straightening to 1,000 Tons
Earlier this year Dale and Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" visited one of the 50 largest commercial heat treaters in North America, family owned Specialty Heat Treat in Houston, Texas (the story can be found...
“Experimental” Heat Treatment Leads to Recall
Regular readers of "The Monty" will need no reminder of how crucial heat treating is to the manufacturing process, however here is another example. According to this press release a supplier of ball studs to truck suppliers Mack and Volvo used an experimental heat treat process which resulted in...
Carburizing of Large Gears-“Haerterei Reese”
Recently "The Monty Heat Treat News" had an in-depth article about commercial heat treater "Haerterie Reese", a firm in Germany who has the ability to heat treat gears up to 100,000 pounds-a truly remarkable feat. The article can be found below and also...
Turkish Steel Forger Invests In A Batch Furnace For Nitriding And Nitrocarburizing
"Since its establishment in 1987, Topçesan Topbaş Çelik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. has stood as a pillar in the Turkish steel forging industry. Operating from its facility in Nilüfer/Bursa, the company has solidified its position as a leading integrated steel processing manufacturer, supplying forging,...
Nitrex Poland Expanding
Scan through this news item and you will see that Nitrex is adding a large expansion to their manufacturing facility in southern Poland. When we at "The Monty" visited this facility a couple of years ago this is what we saw (below). In the pictures you see Gord Montgomery and the founder of Nitrex...
Accurate Brazing, From This to This
Back in December of 2019 we had the press release below from Accurate Brazing in Greenville, SC about adding a second HIP unit. Well it looks to us like the installation is now completed and ready to go. Accurate Brazing Adds Second Hot Isostatic Press from Quintus Technologies “Västerås, Sweden,...
HK 2020 Exhibition October 21-22/2020
It breaks our hearts that we not be able to attend HK 2020, the annual German heat treatment exhibition held the last few years in Cologne. The reason of course is COVID-19 and bearing that in mind we now have some details about the HK2020 "Virtual" show. We reminisced about the show last year and...
US/Canada Border Closed
As a Canadian and a businessman I am very aware that the US/Canadian border is closed to all but essential travel, however US citizens are not as aware of this situation. The bottom line is that while Canada does allow visitors from other countries, those visitors must self-quarantine for 14 days...
Rex Heat Treat Installs SECO/WARWICK Super IQ Furnace
To this rather interesting press release we can add this background about REX Heat Treat. To find out how Rex compares in size to other North American commercial heat treaters we would suggest checking out “The Monty” which offers the only ranking in the world about the relative size of commercial...
Firearms Heat Treatment
August 21, 2020 we had a news item about how a bright spot in the worldwide heat treatment industry is that of firearms (the original note can be found below). A perfect example of that would be Italian gun manufacturer Beretta. Up until 2016 Beretta had been manufacturing in Maryland, USA but due...