“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]
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…
Aluminum Parts Supplier Completes Furnace Install
Aluminum Parts Supplier Completes Furnace Install Earlier this year a supplier of aluminum automotive parts completed the installation of a large Roller Hearth furnace line for a facility in Germany. The line was provided by Italian furnace builder IVR, who offers several solutions for heat treating of aluminum alloy products. In this case the…
Heat Treatment Names in the News
Heat Treatment Names in the News On a regular basis “The Monty Heat Treat News” keeps you up to date on personnel changes in the global heat treatment industry-here is this week’s update; Glenn Ottinger, Vitesse Systems; Glenn Ottinger has just been appointed General Manager, USA West Coast at Vitesse Systems. Glenn spent 16 years with…
Kyle Favors, Heat Treat Depot-A Novel Idea in the Heat Treating Industry
Kyle Favors, Heat Treat Depot-A Novel Idea in the Heat Treating Industry In South Carolina, USA Kyle Favors has made a real name for himself in the heat treating industry through his rep firm ” CF Thermal ” and his calibration/service company ” Heat Treating Services Unlimited “. Kyle recently launched another venture, ” Heat Treat Depot ” whose…
Phil Hilger Promoted to Director of EHS, Engineering & Purchasing at Premier Thermal
Phil Hilger Promoted to Director of EHS, Engineering & Purchasing at Premier Thermal Premier Thermal is one of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America as ranked by “The Monty Heat Treat News” https://themonty.com/project/largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treats-august-2020/ Phil’s career in the industry spans several…
What’s It Worth-Refurbished Ipsen T-7 Atmosphere IQ Furnace
What’s It Worth-Refurbished Ipsen T-7 Atmosphere IQ Furnace So what do you think a refurbished 1964 Ipsen Batch IQ furnace is worth-well we can tell you exactly what it is worth in the current market. What you see is a batch IQ furnace manufactured by Ipsen in 1964, Model T7-1000-DGM with working dimensions of 30″ wide X 48″ deep X 20″…
Aerospace Supplier Egile Group Spain Installs Two New Vacuum Furnaces
Aerospace Supplier Egile Group Spain Installs Two New Vacuum Furnaces French furnace builder BMI recently delivered and commissioned two vacuum furnaces for a Spanish customer, Egile Group. “Egile is a promising new actor on the market of aero transmissions. We have just validated the final acceptance of the furnaces which are both AMS2750F…
Gasbarre Installs Vacuum Oil Quench Furnace
Gasbarre Installs Vacuum Oil Quench Furnace To go with this interesting press release from US furnace builder Gasbarre we have this photo of part of the team which “The Monty Heat Treat News” took at the ASM heat treat exhibition in Mexico in March of 2020. “Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems is pleased to announce the recent commissioning of a…
Hestia Heat Treat, Racine Wisconsin To Add Nitriding Capacity
Hestia Heat Treat, Racine Wisconsin To Add Nitriding Capacity Out in Racine, Wisconsin, USA we see that commercial heat treater Hestia Heat Treat which was formerly Racine Heat Treat is making an impressive investment. Darius Szczekocki , the owner recently made the decision to invest in a new Nitrex gas nitriding system. For some background…