“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]
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). …
(DECEMBER 2022) Do Manufacturers Make Good Commercial Heat Treaters-Kern Liebers
(DECEMBER 2022) Do Manufacturers Make Good Commercial Heat Treaters-Kern Liebers THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A MANUFACTURER OFFERING COMMERCIAL HEAT TREATING AND TIES IN WITH OUR STORY ABOUT TRANSMISSION SUPPLIER TREMEC OFFERING COMMERCIAL HEAT TREATING Over the years “ The Monty Heat Treat News ” has had the privilege of visiting two locations of…
Burloak Technologies Installing In-House Heat Treatment Department
Burloak Technologies Installing In-House Heat Treatment Department THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A MANUFACTURER OFFERING COMMERCIAL HEAT TREATING AND TIES IN WITH OUR STORY ABOUT TRANSMISSION SUPPLIER TREMEC OFFERING COMMERCIAL HEAT TREATING Earlier this year we had an exclusive news item about how Additive Manufacturing firm Burloak Technologies…
PAI Industries partners with ECM to Expand Capabilities and Increase Efficiency by Adding In-House Carburizing Vacuum Furnace System
PAI Industries partners with ECM to Expand Capabilities and Increase Efficiency by Adding In-House Carburizing Vacuum Furnace System Pleasant Prairie, WI – August 26, 2024 – PAI Industries, renowned manufacturer and distributor of high-quality parts to the heavy duty truck industry, has partnered with ECM to bring heat treatment in-house with a…
Top Heat Treatment News Items, Week of August 19th 2024
Top Heat Treatment News Items, Week of August 19th 2024 Each week “The Monty Heat Treat News” looks at our “top 3” Heat Treatment news stories for the previous week. This is determined by the number of views on our website www.themonty.com and also on social media. For the week starting August 19th, 2024 our top 3 news items were; “Nitrex…
Heat Treating in Mexico vs; The USA
Heat Treating in Mexico vs; The USA Hector Ibarra has been involved in both captive and commercial heating in Mexico and the USA, most recently he worked with ALD Thermal Treatment, one of the largest commercial vacuum carburizing companies in the world. In this article he talks about the differences between heat treating in the two countries and…
Aerospace Testing & Pyrometry, Inc. Launches Aerospace Compliance Software, LTD,
Aerospace Testing & Pyrometry, Inc. Launches Aerospace Compliance Software, LTD, Aerospace Testing & Pyrometry, Inc. (ATP), based in Bethlehem, PA, is happy to announce its latest venture, Aerospace Compliance Software (ACS), a customized pyrometry platform that streamlines the process for achieving accurate and timely electronic records…
ECM ECO Furnace-What the Heck is It?
ECM ECO Furnace-What the Heck is It? Last week furnace builder ECM issued this press release which at least with us has prompted a lot of questions. Well we will have answers to our questions shortly and will give you a few more details about what the heck an ECO furnace is. “ECM Technologies announces the release of a new furnace system which…
Furnaces North America 2020-The Numbers Are In
Furnaces North America 2020-The Numbers Are In Last week was the Furnaces North America 2020 Virtual Heat Treat Show, we at “The Monty” attended and our summary was posted last Friday https://themonty.com/fna-2020-virtual-show-2/ “Virtual” shows are of course brand new and nobody knows exactly what to expect from them-a viable alternative to…
Solar Manufacturing Ships Five Furnaces to Southeast US
Solar Manufacturing Ships Five Furnaces to Southeast US “Solar Manufacturing recently shipped five Mentor ® vacuum furnaces to a customer in the Southeast USA who provides products to a wide array of industries, including aerospace and medical. The model HFL-2018-2IQ furnaces feature a graphite-insulated hot zone, a load weight capacity of up to…
HSH Härtereitechnik, Germany/Bankruptcy
HSH Härtereitechnik, Germany/Bankruptcy Last week we had an unfortunate story about furnace builder HSH in Germany closing down. This article gives us the details (please note that this has been translated from German and while the grammar is good it is not perfect). With 49 employees this was a respectable sized company, but one which appears to…
















































































































































