“The Monty Heat Treat News” July 2026 Edition.
“The Monty Heat Treat News” July 2026 Edition. Welcome to the July/2026 edition of “The Monty Heat Treat News” , for over 30 years providing the most up to date news and trends about the global heat treatment industry. Some stories in this edition include these; “Top 52” List Provides Insight Into North American Heat Treat Industry Pit Nitriding…
Ipsen Expands TITAN Assembly Line at Vacuum Technology Excellence Center
Ipsen Expands TITAN Assembly Line at Vacuum Technology Excellence Center Ipsen USA is expanding the TITAN assembly line at its Vacuum Technology Excellence Center in Cherry Valley, Illinois. This major investment is expected to increase production capacity from 36 TITAN vacuum furnaces per year to 60, allowing the company to better meet growing…
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]
Ipsen Promotes Chris Martin to Regional Service Manager for the Southeast
Ipsen Promotes Chris Martin to Regional Service Manager for the Southeast “Ipsen USA announces the promotion of Chris Martin to Regional Service Manager for the Southeast United States. In his new role, Martin will be responsible for leading a team of seven that includes six Field Service Engineers and one Service Administrator. Since joining…
Roland Caminades, Avion Europe and the European Heat Treat Market
Roland Caminades, Avion Europe and the European Heat Treat Market Earlier this year “The Monty Heat Treat News” had the opportunity to visit heat treat industry supplier “Avion Europe” at their headquarters in Hagen, Germany-the end result was this article;…
Metals Technology Receivership Sale?
Metals Technology Receivership Sale? August 12th of this year “The Monty” had a news item about the second largest commercial heat treater in the Chicago area, “Metals Technology Corp.” entering receivership (the original story is further down). The story caught us off guard because this is a much larger than average commercial heat treater and…
Gear Manufacturer Auctioning Vacuum Carburizing Furnaces
Gear Manufacturer Auctioning Vacuum Carburizing Furnaces Bidding is now open for an auction being held in Vienna, Austria at Opel Gear Manufacturing. The now closed facility manufactured components for automotive transmissions and amongst the items for auction is a large amount of heat treatment equipment. This includes ECM 6-Chamber ICBP vacuum…
Captive Heat Treater Allied Locke Continues to Expand
Captive Heat Treater Allied Locke Continues to Expand Allied Locke in Dixon, Illinois, USA is one of the premier chain manufacturers in North America and one who firmly believes that heat treating is an integral part of the manufacturing process. Over the course of the past 2 years “The Monty” has mentioned several times about investments the…
Injection Nozzle Manufacturer adds Nitriding Furnaces
Injection Nozzle Manufacturer adds Nitriding Furnaces DUAP AG a supplier of fuel injection nozzles in Switzerland has just added pit nitriding capacity. The company operates both as a manufacturer and as a commercial heat treater. The 2 Rohde supplied furnaces have working dimensions of 1500mm x 2000mm with a weight capacity of 3000 kg and a…
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Marysville, Michigan, USA Heat Treat Department
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Marysville, Michigan, USA Heat Treat Department Back in 2008 what at the time was Chrysler LLC joined forces with German auto parts supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG to produce a new axle manufacturing alliance. The partnership utilized Chrysler’s new Marysville (Mich.) Axle Plant to build three families of…
Brett Burns, General Manager, Bodycote, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Brett Burns, General Manager, Bodycote, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA It is our understanding that Mr. Brett Burns recently became General Manager of the Bodycote, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA facility. Brett was previously at the Canton, Michigan, USA facility. As the world’s largest commercial heat treater Bodycote probably needs no introduction from…
Quick Delivery Vacuum Furnace Available
Quick Delivery Vacuum Furnace Available Vacuum furnace manufacturer Solar Manufacturing has these slightly used vacuum furnaces available. Did you like this article? Click here to subscribe to The Monty .
Nickel Pricing-The Key to Alloy Pricing
Nickel Pricing-The Key to Alloy Pricing As we all now the main driver of alloy pricing is nickel pricing, in other words what you pay for fabricated baskets, cast radiant tubes, base trays, muffles and every other component which goes into a furnace is largely determined by the price of nickel. At the low end of the scale HK material consists of…
Heat Treatment Safety
Heat Treatment Safety It can be easy to forget that heat treating can be a dangerous industry but examples abound of tragedies that have occurred either though equipment malfunctions, carelessness, mistakes or a combination of all of these. Recently we were approached by a captive heat treater who operates a number of vacuum furnaces-he was…
CIBS GmbH-A New HT Rep Firm in Germany
CIBS GmbH-A New HT Rep Firm in Germany Earlier this year Martin van Rossum and Michael Aurand , two individuals who have spent most of their working lives in the European heat treat industry founded manufacturers rep firm CIBS GmbH in Kleve, Germany. Since their beginning the company has signed rep agreements with companies such as ECM,…