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...
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]
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...
Phoenix Heat Treat Adds a Further Batch IQ Furnace
In November of 2022 Dale and Gord Montgomery had the priviledge of visiting commercial heat treater Phoenix Heat Treat in Phoenix, Arizona, USA-our summary can be found below. Today we are able to give you an update about the company adding more furnace capacity. As we speak the company is taking...
Captive/Commercial Heat Treater Adds “Twin Vacuum Furnaces”
The largest captive/commercial heat treater in Portugal is a steel supplier by the name of "Ramada Acos SA". "The Monty Heat Treat News" visited their facility in Ovar, Portugal in 2021 and what we saw was a very substantial and impressive heat treat department with a mixture of atmosphere and...
In House Heat Treating, Dana Corporation
Earlier this week we had a summary about the massive in house heat treating department at auto parts supplier Dana Corporation in Queretaro, Mexico https://themonty.com/dana-corporation-queretaro-mexico/ To compliment the original story we have these additional photos showing parts of their heat...
Solar Manufacturing Ships Mentor® Furnace to Virginia
"Solar Manufacturing recently shipped a Mentor® vacuum furnace to Virginia, for a customer servicing the Tool and Die industry. The Model HFL-2018-2IQ features a graphite-insulated hot zone, a load weight capacity up to 250 lbs., and a maximum operating temperature of 2400° F. The HFL-2018-2IQ...
Heat Treat Mexico 2020
We are now at the ongoing 2 day Heat Treat Mexico 2020 event in Queretaro, Mexico. Organized by ASM this is the third time this bi-annual event has been held. While this is not a large event along the lines of an HK20 in Germany it is a well organized event and fills a niche, that of bringing...
Corona Virus & It’s Effects on the Worldwide Heat Treating Industry
As a Canadian (albeit in Mexico as we speak) the Corona Virus to date has been little more than scary headlines in newspapers with absolutely no effect on the Canadian, US or Mexican heat treat industry. However that is not the case in other parts of the world including Europe where it is having an...
SSi Queretaro, Mexico
There can be no better example of the frantic growth in the Mexican heat treating industry than that of furnace controls company SSi. Based in Cincinatti, Ohio, USA the company set up shop in Queretaro, Mexico a number of years back and since that time their sales and support team has grown to 14...
Crio Queretaro, Mexico
When commercial heat treater Crio set up shop in Queretaro, Mexico in 2004 it was like most start ups a relatively modest operation. Over the years we have had the opportunity to see the company grow and in 2020 we see quite an impressive company with 2 locations in operation with a third on the...