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...
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]
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...
Which Has a Lower Carbon Footprint-Mesh Belt or Cast Link Furnace?
Conveyor Hardening – Mesh Belt versus Cast Link Design: Reducing Carbon Footprint and Costs by: P. Kleinbrod, Aichelin GesmH Conveyor belt furnaces are a proven technology for quenching and tempering fasteners (screws, bolts and nuts). The parts are fed as bulk material and transported on metal...
PWR Advanced Cooling Adding More Heat Treat Capacity
In August of 2022 “The Monty Heat Treat News” had a news item about an Australian based company by the name of PWR Advanced Cooling obtaining their Nadcap accreditation and at the same time adding more heat treat capacity at their facility in Australia and also in the US. This press release from the...
In House Heat Treating-TREMEC, Mexico
Founded in 1964 TREMEC is a manufacturer of transmissions and transmission components for a number of industries including automotive, heavy truck, agriculture and defense. Based in Mexico the firm has locations in the US, Mexico and Belgium with 3 of the facilities boasting in house heat treating...
Molybdenum Shipments From China Resume
The entire world is well aware of the fact that the Corona virus brought export shipments from China to a crashing halt. This included items of great importance to heat treaters, items such as alloy furnace components and fixturing and molybdenum (moly) products a material used largely in vacuum...
Wayne Kenneth Patrick Howard/All Source Heat Treating
It is with regret that we mention the passing of Wayne Howard, founder and President of All Source Heat Treating in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Wayne spent his entire working life in the captive and commercial heat treating industry before founding All Source Heat Treating in St. Catharines a...
Monday Morning Briefing
The Heat Treat Mexico 2020 ASM event in Queretaro, Mexico is now concluded and filed away in the history books. Most would deem the event as a success and we have these final photos for you.Carburizing experts ALD always have a strong presence at all the worldwide heat treat events. In this photo we...
Heat Treat Mexico 2020,Queretaro, Mexico
The ASM “Heat Treat Mexico 2020” exhibition is now concluded and as we previously reported our feeling is that while this was a relatively small show it was deemed to be a success and it was certainly well organized. Earlier this week we posted photos from the event, we have these additional...
So How Are We Doing These Days?
Well it would appear that the worldwide heat treatment industry in 2020 is fair to middling and certainly down from 2018 and 2019. Conversations with in-house heat treaters and commercial heat treaters in the largest heat treatment market in the world-the USA reveal that almost universally the...