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....
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]
Rock Drill Manufacturer Inaugurates Heat Treatment Plant
Back in 2019 Swedish rock drill manufacturer EPIROC announced plans to invest in a new heat treatment plant; “Epiroc has held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new heat treatment plant for rock drills at one of its global manufacturing hubs in Örebro, Sweden.” Just yesterday the firm issued a press...
IHEA Annouces 2023-2024 Board of Directors
“The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) recently announced its 2023 – 24 Board of Directors and Executive Officers. Taking over as President is Brian Kelly of Honeywell Thermal Solutions; Vice-President is Jeff Rafter of Selas Heat Technology Co. LLC.; and Treasurer is Gary Berwick of...
Commercial Heat Treater Orders Batch IQ Furnace
Commercial heat treater Metex Heat Treating in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada has consistently made the annual list of the 50 Largest Commercial Heat Treaters in North America as ranked by "The Monty Heat Treat News"-find out how they compare...
Where Are They Now? Mark DeBruin
Mark has spent most of his life in the US heat treating industry, most recently as Techincal Manager with Thermal Process Holdings. Recently he made a substantial career change and entered the world of 3D printing-this is his story; “Mark DeBruin, who was previously with Thermal Process Holdings and...
Heat Treating Gears: Comparing Carburizing, Ion Nitriding & Gas Nitriding Authored by Dr. Edward Rolinski, Advanced Heat Treat Corp
Gear failures have been a subject of many engineering articles, also addressing thermochemical methods used for improving performance and longevity [1-11]. Gear failure can be very complex. Many gears fail from bending fatigue as a result of cyclic bending stress at the tooth-root fillet and this...
Top 50 Commercial Heat Treater Accepts Delivery of Vacuum Furnace
March 9th of this year Gord Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” toured the new Solar Atmospheres facility in Chesterfield, Michigan, USA-the details of that visit can be found below. We can now say that the first vacuum furnace has arrived as you can see in this photo. These are the details...
Bodycote’s 2019 Full Year Results
The world’s largest commercial heat treater, Bodycote released their financial results for the year ending December 31 2019 earlier today and as always they make for fascinating reading. Fascinating because as the world’s only truly global heat treater their results give us an insight into the heat...
American Axle & Manufacturing-Guanajuato Manufacturing Complex Mexico
Any list of the largest captive heat treaters in North America would have to include auto and truck component supplier American Axle & Manufacturing (https://themonty.com/project/10-largest-north-american-captive-heat-treaters/) In terms of sales the company reported $6.53 Billion USD in 2019,...
Solar Atmospheres
Solar Atmospheres is one of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America. This rather interesting article appeared in a local newspaper “The Herald”. We say interesting because the article talks about how the company is handling the North American labor shortage and also how the company has...
Corona Virus & The Heat Treating Industry
Personally we are getting rather tired of hearing about the corona virus and we have serious doubts that it will turn out to be as serious as some predictions have suggested. Having said that though it is having an impact on the industry. For instance IHEA (The Industrial Heating Equipment...
Why Do Captives Choose Vacuum Technology?
Last week we had two photos of a vacuum carburizing installation in a manufacturing facility in the US which begged the question; "Why Do Captives Choose Vacuum Technology?" https://themonty.com/why-do-captives-choose-vacuum-technology/ It hit a chord based upon our feedback and one fellow at...
DELTA H Commissions Large Walk-In Oven
“WARREN, OR: DELTA H recently completed the installation of a large walk-in oven at Composites Universal Group (CUG), an internationally recognized composite manufacturing company specializing in the production of high-quality composite components for Aerospace, Drones, Industrial and Space...