“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]
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…
Medical Industry Accepts Oven
Medical Industry Accepts Oven “Blue M®, a global industrial and laboratory ovens manufacturer, announced the shipment of a Class A safety oven to the medical industry. Designed for ease of move-in and installation, this Blue M Class A oven was modified to an overall height of 79” and width of 45” to accommodate the ceiling height and doorway…
Nitrex Heat Treat Appoints General Manager
Nitrex Heat Treat Appoints General Manager Commerical heat treater “Nitrex” recently appointed a new General Manager for their Mason, Michigan, USA facility (to find out how Nitrex compares in size to other commercial heat treaters in North America we would suggest this…
Heat Treating Mexico-Globalization to Regionalization
Heat Treating Mexico-Globalization to Regionalization Within the next few days we will be “profiling” a commercial heat treat facility in Mexico, a facility which has made some major investments recently and for some very interesting reasons. Their feeling is that with all that is happening in the world right now with the pandemic and the current…
Did Furnaces North America Just Dodge a Bullet?
Did Furnaces North America Just Dodge a Bullet? The largest heat treat exhibition in North America in 2020 is the MTI sponsored Furnaces North America show scheduled for September 30th to October 2 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. As most in the industry are aware this show has gone the route of all trade shows in 2020-it is now virtual. Perhaps…
Custom Electric Manufacturing to merge into Kanthal as of January 1, 2021
Custom Electric Manufacturing to merge into Kanthal as of January 1, 2021 “Custom Electric Manufacturing was acquired by Sweden-based Kanthal in 2018 and will now go to market under the Kanthal brand. The transition will be effective as of January 1, 2021 Custom Electric Manufacturing (CEM) will as of January 1, 2021 be fully integrated into…
Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System?
Why Would Anybody Run a Nitrogen/Methanol System? Once upon a time in North America gas fired Endothermic Generators reigned supreme when it came to atmosphere heat treating. Unreliable and problem plagued they were an easy prey to Nitrogen/Methanol systems which promised to be clean, reliable, simple and low maintenance and consequently 30-40…
Solar Manufacturing Provides Turnkey Furnace Solution
Solar Manufacturing Provides Turnkey Furnace Solution Solar Manufacturing recently shipped a Mentor ® vacuum furnace to a customer in the Southeast US A that servic es the defense industry. The Model HFL- 2018 – 2I Q feature s a graphite -insulated hot zone, a l oad weight capacity of up to 2 5 0 lbs. , and a maximum operating temperature of 2400…
Expanite Surface Hardening Replaces Hard Chrome
Expanite Surface Hardening Replaces Hard Chrome “Major automotive, pumps and food processing equipment makers can’t be wrong in choosing an alternative for hard chrome plating! With more than 20% of the turnover coming from hard chrome replacement projects, Expanite, the Danish pioneer in surface hardening of stainless steel, is on its way to…