Ipsen Installs TurboTreater Vacuum Furnace at Taiwan Hodaka Technology
"Ipsen recently completed the installation of a TurboTreater vacuum furnace for a customer in Southeast Asia. Established in 2002, Taiwan Hodaka Technology Co., Ltd. is an aluminum extrusion supplier, specializing in high-end aerospace aluminum alloys. They also produce products used in the sporting...
Busch Vacuum Partners With SSi For Heat Treat Seminar
In an industry first, vacuum pump supplier Busch Vacuum has partnered with controls company SSi of Cincinatti, Ohio to provide a 1 day heat treatment seminar. The event will take place May 2, 2023 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada at Busch's brand new, state of the art service center and training...
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]
Fastener Manufacturer Installs New Exothermic Generator
“UPC-Marathon, a Nitrex company, recently installed an ExoFlex™ gas generator for Jomarca, a long-time customer and one of the biggest manufacturers of fasteners, bolts, nuts, and fixing elements in Brazil. The generator will supply exothermic gas to a continuous wire annealing furnace, which is...
Martin’s Metal Service-A New Game in Town
You can certainly be forgiven if you have not run across the name Martin's Metal Service previously as this is a very new entry into the US commercial heat treating market (kind of)-lets explain. For many years there has been a commercial heat treater in Springfield, Ohio by the name of Certified...
Turkish Heat Treater Re Certified for NADCAP
"The Monty Heat Treat News" has long followed commercial heat treater Önerler Heat Treatment Ltd., in Bursa, Turkey as one of the largest heat treaters in the entire region. Last year we announced that they had achieved Nadcap Acredidation, the company is very pleased to announce that this has just...
CO2 Emissions and the Heat Treatment Industry
CO2 Emissions are a hot topic in Europe and becoming more so in North America which has lead to a number of companies in the industry taking a very close look at this subject. Obviously the largest contributing factor to CO2 emissions in the heat treatment industry is the energy required to heat the...
Burloak Technologies Receives ISO 17025 Accreditation
Burloak Technologies, an Additive Manufacturing firm who recently installed an in-house heat treating department has now received ISO 17025 accreditation for it's material Testing Lab. This means the company now has both Nadcap and ISO 17025, a very unusual combination. The one photo below shows the...
Aerospace Company Adds Vacuum Furnace to Improve Deliveries
"AERO SPACE POWER, a modern European MRO facility with experience in the renovation and energy industry has ordered a custom-made VectorR vacuum furnace from SECO/WARWICK. The solution will be utilized for repair solutions for both complex aircraft engines and gas turbines for the energy industry....
Accurate Brazing, Greenville, SC, USA-“HIP” Installation
In early 2019 Accurate Brazing announced that they were joining a growing trend around the world by investing in a Hot Isostatic Press. The decision proved to be such a success that in November of 2019 the company announced they would be adding a second system (the November 2019 press release is...
ALD’s new Sales Team for Vacuum Heat Treatment in North America
(Editor’s Note; Next week “The Monty” will be featuring an interview with Dr. Klaus Loeser, VP of ALD) “ALD welcomes Andrew Chan in the position of Sales and Applications Engineer in the sales team for Vacuum Heat Treatment Furnaces and Equipment. Together with Ronald Creed (Director of Sales North...
AFC-Holcroft Names New Managing Director For European Operations
This could also be called “Big Changes at AFC-Holcroft Europe” as this news item is actually two items, the first about the new managing director of the company and the second about the company moving its European satellite office. We rummaged through our photo files to find a suitable picture and...
Metex Heat Treat Orders Mesh Belt Furnace Line
Commercial heat treater Metex Heat Treat in Mississauga, Canada is bucking the trend these days with a major new investment. Just last week the company placed on order a brand new 7200 pound per hour mesh belt furnace line. The gas fired line with oil quenching and state of the art controls will be...
“The Monty” Exclusive
For almost 25 years "The Monty" has been printing the most up to date news and trends in the worldwide heat treating industry and a very large percentage of this news will only be found on "The Monty"-something we have always prided ourselves on. Sharp eyed readers have been noticing that recently...
Monday Morning Briefing
To start off the March 23, 2020 “Monday Morning Briefing” we are going to get all of the bad news out of the way first, namely everything to do with the “corona virus”. To start off it is obvious that everything to do with the heat treating industry in North America is slowing down in a hurry. As an...













