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:...
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]
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...
Bodycote Update & The 50 Largest Commercial Heat Treats
Next week "The Monty Heat Treat News" will be publishing our list of the "50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats-2024". This years list will feature a USA commercial heat treater we have not mentioned before along with a number of changes. We won't keep you in suspense, the largest by a...
Ipsen USA Invests in Parts Department Growth and Process Improvements
"Ipsen USA continues its commitment to the growth of the Ipsen Customer Service (ICS) Parts Department, expanding staff and implementing strategic initiatives to meet a growing demand. Christina Connelly, Parts Manager for Ipsen in Cherry Valley, joined the team in 2022, and has since hired six...
Aichelin Group Sales
From furnace builder Aichelin Group based in Mödling, Austria we have this summary about how the company did in 2023-it would appear that they did quite well. "The globally positioned AICHELIN Group based in Mödling increased its turnover to EUR 214 million in 2023, an increase of 16 % after EUR...
Happy Memorial Day
We wish our friends in the USA a very memorable Memorial Day 2024. "Memorial Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Memorial Day 2024 will occur on Monday, May 27. Originally known as Decoration Day,...
IHEA Executive Economic Update & Analysis
Each month IHEA (Industrial Heating Equipment Association) issues an economic report about the state of the industry in North America. It makes for interesting reading and for June the focus is on the economy and how COVID-19 has effected it. Please note that this is a condensed version of the...
MµShield (Londonderry, N.H.) Completes Heat Treat Department
It was late in 2019 that Solar Manufacturing announced that they had received an order for a new vacuum furnace from a company by the name of MµShield in NH, USA. In this press release we see that the expansion is now complete and as a bonus we can see the furnace is installed and functioning....
Abbott Furnace Receives An Order For A Brazing Furnace
"Abbott Furnace Company is proud to announce that a global automotive supplier has placed an order for an electrically heated continuous belt brazing furnace to be installed in Mexico in the 4th quarter of 2020. Abbott Furnace will design and manufacture the industrial furnace for brazing of fuel...
Juan Vallejo Rodriguez Named Managing Director Hauck Heat Treatment Spain
In Spain we see that Juan Vallejo Rodriguez was recently named Director General of commercial heat treater Hauck, Spain. Hauck is the second largest commercial heat treater in Europe as ranked by "The Monty" https://themonty.com/project/largest-european-commercial-heat-treaters/ While Hauck is based...
SECO/WARWICK Addresses Anonymous, Slanderous E-Mails
For years now furnace builder SECO/WARWICK has been the target of a viscous, anonymous e mail campaign. Literally 1,000’s of companies from around the world involved in the heat treatment industry have been receiving these e-mails, today SECO addresses the issue. "As one of the top five heat...
What Does a Flood at Mercedes Have to Do With Linkedin?
Just over 1 year ago a flood devasted the in house heat treating department at the Mercedes transmission components facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This mammoth heat treatment facility which consists of pusher furnaces, Nitrex pit nitriders, rotary hearth furnaces and batch IQ furnaces was totally...