“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]
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…
Global Heat Treatment Market Size
Global Heat Treatment Market Size August 21, 2024 “The Monty Heat Treat News” published a graph about the size of the global heat treatment market broken down by captive vs; commerical heat treating and also by geographic region https://themonty.com/global-heat-treatment-market-size/-the graph was originally posted by Mr. Januz Kowalewski, an…
Why a Vertical Vacuum Furnace? Contributed by IPSEN USA
Why a Vertical Vacuum Furnace? Contributed by IPSEN USA When you walk into a heat-treating department and see your first vertical vacuum furnace, you’d be forgiven for staring openly at the jaw-dropping sight. There, perched a story or more in the air on metal legs, is a gigantic vacuum pressure vessel. Wires and hoses, pumps and controls—all…
Global Heat Treatment Market Size
Global Heat Treatment Market Size Our good friend Janusz Kowalewski of furnace builder Ipsen recently published this very interesting graph showing the size of the global heat treatment market broken down by captive vs; commercial heat treating and by region. While we don’t know the original source of this graph or what qualifies as “heat…
Defense Industry Accepts Batch Oven
Defense Industry Accepts Batch Oven “Wisconsin Oven is pleased to announce the shipment of one Inert Atmosphere Batch Oven with an atmosphere-to-water cooling system to a leading defense industry manufacturer. The oven will be used for processing stainless steel parts in a reduced oxygen environment to prevent scaling. The maximum temperature…
Firearm Heat Treating/Heckler & Koch/Glock
Firearm Heat Treating/Heckler & Koch/Glock Recently we had several news items talking about how the firearms industry is booming these days and consequently the heat treating associated with it. Germany based firearm manufacturer Heckler & Kock is known around the world as a top end gun manufacturer and most or all of their locations…
FNA 2020 Virtual Show
FNA 2020 Virtual Show Today starts the 2020 Furnaces North America show which of course like every other show is “virtual”. We are into “uncharted waters” on this format and it will be interesting to see what the response is. At “The Monty” we have been treated to a preview by a couple of the exhibitors and it is obvious that a lot of work has…
Heat Treatment in Mexico/HT-MX Profile
Heat Treatment in Mexico/HT-MX Profile September 24th we had a news item entitled “Heat Treating Mexico-Globalization to Regionalization”. The item was about a commercial heat treater in Mexico who was finding business to be very good partially because US manufacturers appear to be bringing their supply chains closer to home-namely reducing their…
Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System?
Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System? Even after all these years of publishing “The Monty” we are still puzzled why some articles attract so much attention and others do not. For instance September 23 we had an article entitled Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System-the basis of the article was that Endo generators are a…
Nitrex Webinar, Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System in a Heat Treat And More Heat Treat News
Nitrex Webinar, Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System in a Heat Treat And More Heat Treat News Remember the large fire at Colfor Manufacturing which we mentioned last week? Well it had nothing to do with the in house heat treating department as you can see in the press release; “ The fire that ripped through the Colfor Manufacturing…
Fire at Colfor Manufacturing in Malvern, Ohio, USA
Fire at Colfor Manufacturing in Malvern, Ohio, USA The press release below tells us about a devastating fire at Colfor Manufacturing in Ohio and the effect that it might have on it’s automotive customers. We mention this today as our understanding is that this facility has an in house heat treatment department consisting of Batch IQ equipment….