“The Heat Treat Podcast” Talks Surface Treatment
Today our very articulate host, Mr. Carlos Torres of "The Heat Treat Podcast" talks surface treatment with Mr. Craig Zimmerman of "Bluewater Thermal". Everybody in the North American heat treatment industry knows Craig but for the very small percentage that don't Craig is one of the top experts on...
Heat Treatment Norway
Regular Readers of "The Monty" will know that our team is constantly searching for captive and commercial heat treat facilities around the world, this hunt took us to Longyearbyen, Norway just 2 days ago-Longyearbyen, Norway by the way is the most northerly city in the world. Alas not a heat treat...
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]
Top 50 Heat Treater Orders Multiple Vacuum Furnaces
We received this rather interesting press release from SECO/VACUUM about a record-breaking contract they recently received-the details of the press release are leading the team at "The Monty" to engage in a little speculation. According to this press release the customer appears to be a commercial...
Thermal Process Holdings Consolidates Plants
Commercial heat treater Thermal Process Holdings is ranked as one of the 50 largest commercial heat treaters in North America by "The Monty Heat Treat News"-find out where they rank later this week when we update to our 2024 list. We understand that the firm has advised customers that effective...
World’s Largest Front Loading Vacuum Furnace
Vacuum furnace builder Signature Vacuum Systems in Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA starting construction recently on what the company was billing as "the world's largest front-loading vacuum furnace"-a claim which caught our attention. Over the past few months, we have watched with interest the...
Mark Heninger, Ipsen-The Interview
Today we are speaking with Mr. Mark Heninger, an individual whose experience in the vacuum heat treating industry is almost unsurpassed. Mark lets start off with your background-how you came to work for Ipsen, your positions over the years and what your current position entails. My Career Path:...
New Heat Treat Investment for Mexico Facility
In February of this year "The Monty Heat Treat News" reported that hydraulic pump supplier Bosch Rexroth was investing in a new in house heat treatment department at their facility near Queretaro, Mexico (original story is below). We speculated at the time as to what form this heat treat would take,...
Induction Hardened Case Depth Measurement Using Ultrasonic Backscattering By Miguel Equihua, InTech NDT, USA
Induction hardening is a critical process in the manufacturing of automotive, agricultural and aeronautical components, such as crankshafts, camshafts, constant velocity joints, axle shafts, etc. The procedure for the evaluation of metallurgical characteristics is carried out in the laboratory and...
Carlisle Brake & Friction Auction
Wednesday August 5th, 2020 there will be an auction of equipment located at Carlisle Brake & Friction in Medina, Ohio, USA. As always we mention this because there are a few heat treat related items included such as a Bell Heat Treat Furnace line with 4 25" bases, a Becker Temper furnace and a...
KGO Ships Salt Recovery Unit to a German Customer
From furnace manufacturer KGO in Germany we have this press release. “Although KGO is best known for our superior gas nitriding systems the KGO product range is much wider and includes salt recovery units. This picture shows a SV270 system which was just recently delivered to a major customer in...
Where Are They Now-Michael Cousins
In the world of furnace manufacturing in North America, Michael Cousins is quite a familiar name due to his experience with companies such as Ipsen, AFC-Holcroft and Diablo (Diablo of course is now deceased). We see that Michael very recently became Sales and Service Manager at Williams Industrial...
Heat Treatment News-Bodycote Financial Results And Lots More
We start off the week with a very sad item, the passing of Stacy Lee Morton, General Manager of Phoenix Heat Treating in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. This is the second COVID-19 related death in the North American heat treat industry that we have heard of in the past week. “Stacy Lee Morton, 61, of...
Every Heat Treaters Worst Nightmare
There can be nothing more devastating to a heat treater than a fire-unfortunately it is a not uncommon occurrence. These photos which were taken just yesterday show Elk County Heat Treaters in St. Marys, PA, USA. It is too soon to know what caused the fire however luckily there were no injuries. Elk...
Alonzo Lozano, Accurate Steel Treating
It is with great regret that we mention the passing of long time heat treater Alonzo Lozano of Accurate Steel Treating in Southgate,\ California. On a personal note we can say that we had some business dealings with Alonzo and we always found him to be a pleasure to work with. Accurate Steel...