Ipsen USA Increases Focus on Hiring and Leadership Development Initiatives
"To keep up with business growth, Ipsen USA has hired more than 50 new employees over the past year. With continued focus on customer service, hiring initiatives include expanding the parts department and increasing the number of field service personnel. In addition to ramping up its recruiting...
Mr. Christian Grosspointner, CEO, Aichelin Group-The Interview
“The Monty Heat Treat News” is very excited to be able to offer you this interview with Mr. Christian Grosspointner, CEO of furnace manufacturing firm Aichelin based in Moedling, Austria. Christian-I hope it’s OK to call you by your first name, I generally like to start each interview with some...
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]
Why Do Manufacturers Bring Heat Treatment in House-Castool
In 2022 "The Monty Heat Treat News" announced one of the largest new furnace orders in North America, an investment by Castool Tooling Systems which included numerous vacuum and nitriding furnaces (a summary can be found below). This investment begs the question; "Why invest millions in bringing...
Heat Treating a 47,000 Pound Gear
How to Carburize a 47,000 Pound Gear Destined for a Rolling Mill in a Steel Mill-From, Mark Podob, President, Metlab “With the largest pit carburizing furnaces in North America, no one does it better than we do – we quenched this fabricated 47,000-pound gear yesterday afternoon. It was the reverse...
Fascinating Heat Treats-Captive Heat Treater AGCO/FENDT, Part II
Over the years "The Monty Heat Treat News" has visited some of the largest captive heat treaters in the world, one which we mentioned yesterday was tractor supplier AGCO/FENDT in Germany. Today in Part II we over some more details about this truly impressive in-house heat treater. "APRIL 2020; In...
Fascinating Heat Treats-Captive Heat Treater AGCO/FENDT
From time to time we search through our archived pictures of heat treat facilities around the world and present some of the more memorable ones. Today we look at one of the more memorable ones we have come across tractor builder AGCO/FENDT in Marktoberdorf, Germany. AGCO/FENDT is memorable for the...
Bodycote Greenville, SC, USA Continues With Investment
Going back to late 2021 heat treating giant Bodycote announced that they were investing in Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) capability at their facility in Greenville, SC, USA. This is the original press release; "November 2021; Bodycote increases Hot Isostatic Pressing capacity in the USA; Bodycote,...
Aluminum Mill Orders 4 More Furnaces From SECO/WARWICK
"ASSAN ALÜMINYUM, one of the leading flat rolled aluminum manufacturers in the world, has ordered 4 additional aluminum coil annealing furnaces, which are equipped with an even more efficient VortexR 2.0 system. The company already owns 17 furnaces with SECO/WARWICK Vortex systems. VortexR is a...
Delta Heat Services, Belgium Moves to New Location
Delta Heat Services based in the Netherlands has 5 locations in Europe and 1 in the Caribbean offering annealing, stress relieving and induction heat treating services. Just a week ago the company proudly announced that they had moved into a brand new facility in Antwerp. The photo below shows one...
Monday Morning Briefing
We will start off with a bit of “people” news. First up we see that Jesús Gerardo Calderón Reyna recently became Vice President of Operations at ALD TRATAMIENTOS TERMICOS SA DE CV in Mexico. ALD TT (Thermal Treatment) is a commercial heat treater specializing in vacuum carburizing and Jesús has been...
Mercer Technologies Press Release
Below we have a press release from Mike Mercer Sr. regarding the status of Mercer Technologies in these challenging times. "For all Mercer Technologies customers: Subject: Critical Infrastructure Continued Operations during the COVID-19 crisis Mercer Technologies, Inc. is a supplier for companies...
Happy Easter!
"The Monty" Will be closed Friday April 10 for Easter holiday's. We will resume regular news updates on Monday April 13. Happy Easter!
In House Heat Treating, AGCO/FENDT, Marktoberdorf, Germany (Part II)
Yesterday we looked at part of the in house heat treating department of FENDT Tractors in Germany, specifically we took a look at the immaculate “pusher” furnace department. Today we look at the other part of the department which consists of a number of batch IQ furnaces with an entire cell...
Obituary for David Miles Kailburn
We very much regret mentioning that David Miles Kailburn recently passed away. Dave's entire working life revolved around the commercial heat treating industry in Upstate, NY, USA working with companies such as Jasco Heat Treating and Rochester Steel Treating Works. We found this photo of Dave (on...