“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]
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…
Labor Day Holiday
Labor Day Holiday In observance of Labor Day, WG Montgomery Ltd./”The Monty Heat Treat News” will be closed on Monday, September 2. We salute and acknowledge the hard work and dedication of all workers. Normal operations will resume on Tuesday, September 3. Have a happy and safe Labor Day weekend! Did you like this article? Click here to…
Nitriding System in Operation
Nitriding System in Operation “Volkan Steels Powders Metal San. Tic ve Ltd. Şti. (V’Steels), a leading Turkish tool steels supplier based in Istanbul, has boosted its production capabilities with the installation of a new Nitrex nitriding/nitrocarburizing system. This addition aligns with V’Steels’ commitment to expanding its value-added heat…
What is Heat Treatment?
What is Heat Treatment? Recently “The Monty Heat Treat News” has had two articles about the size of the global heat treatment market; https://themonty.com/global-heat-treatment-market-size/ and https://themonty.com/global-heat-treatment-market-size-2/ As “The Monty Team” pointed out, the most difficult part about coming up with an accurate…
TREMEC-Do Manufacturers Make Good Commercial Heat Treaters?
TREMEC-Do Manufacturers Make Good Commercial Heat Treaters? Over the years “The Monty Heat Treat News” has had the opportunity to visit automotive transmission supplier and in house heat treater “Tremec” several times, the most recent being in April of this year (details of the company and their heat-treating department can be found below). …
Komatsu Investing in New Heat Treat Department, Overton Chicago Gear Has a New Heat Treat Manager And More Heat Treatment News
Komatsu Investing in New Heat Treat Department, Overton Chicago Gear Has a New Heat Treat Manager And More Heat Treatment News For our Monday Morning Briefing for October 19/2020 we start off in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. To begin we will use this press release which appeared just a couple of weeks ago; “Building on its 135-year-legacy in…
Brian Reid, Park Thermal
Brian Reid, Park Thermal For 52 years now the names Brian Reid and Park Thermal have been synonymous, but that is no longer the case. Lets provide some background at this point; Park Thermal based in Ontario, Canada provides both new and used heat treating furnaces as well as catalyst for endo generator and salt for austempering furnaces and this…
Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System?
Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System? September 23 of this year we ran an article entitled “Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System?” https://themonty.com/why-would-anybody-run-a-nitrogen-methanol-system/ the basis of the article was that Endothermic generator produce an atmosphere similar to a Nitrogen/Methanol system but at…
Alugen Aluminum Turkey Installs Nitrex Nitriding/Nitrocarburizing System
Alugen Aluminum Turkey Installs Nitrex Nitriding/Nitrocarburizing System Nitrex supplied Alugen Aluminium with a high-performance compact nitriding/nitrocarburizing system allowing the company to bring all manufacturing operations in-house for more optimal work planning and quality control. Turkish aluminum extrusion company, Alugen Aluminium,…
German Furnace Manufacturer Simplon Files For Bankruptcy
German Furnace Manufacturer Simplon Files For Bankruptcy Unfortunately twice in the past week we have heard about German furnace manufacturers filing for Insolvency. In this case Simplon-Werk in Aue, Germany a supplier of heat treatment systems mainly for the automotive industry recently entered insolvency proceedings. The company will continue…
An interview with Mr. Mrinal Nandi of Hofmann Engineering in Australia
An interview with Mr. Mrinal Nandi of Hofmann Engineering in Australia Back in 2018 we ran across a very interesting fellow by the name of Mrinal Nandi who at the time was a metallurgist in India who was looking for a change. Fast forward and today Mrinal is a metallurgist in Australia who is going to tell us a bit about the heat treatment…