“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 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…
Invitation to the 6th Technical Seminar of Super Systems Mexico
Invitation to the 6th Technical Seminar of Super Systems Mexico Dear professionals and enthusiasts of the heat treatment industry from: Puebla, Edo. Mex, Cd. Mx, and Queretaro States, We are pleased to invite you to the 6th Technical Seminar of Super Systems Mexico, an exclusive event where you will share knowledge and experiences with experts in…
Commercial Steel Treating Company Auction
Commercial Steel Treating Company Auction Earlier this year ” The Monty Heat Treat News ” spoke about how heat treater Commercial Steel Treating would be closing their Madison Heights, Michigan, USA facility. This indeed happened and as it turns out the vast bulk of the equipment was purchased by a used equipment dealer and all remaining items…
Heat Treatment Interviews-Boy Do We Have Interviews!
Heat Treatment Interviews-Boy Do We Have Interviews! For years now “The Monty” has been interviewing some of the best known individuals in the worldwide heat treating industry and the end result is that we have 9 pages of interviews in our archives section https://themonty.com/articles-interviews/ A quick scroll though will show you interviews…
Furnace Builder in Germany Enters Chapter 11, AFC-Holcroft Receives Furnace Order and Lilia Jasso is the New President of ASM Mexico
Furnace Builder in Germany Enters Chapter 11, AFC-Holcroft Receives Furnace Order and Lilia Jasso is the New President of ASM Mexico Regular readers of “The Monty” will know that for over 20 years now we have prided ourselves on providing the most up to date news in the global heat treatment industry and today we have several interesting items…
ION HEAT Ships Plasma Nitrider to US Manufacturer
ION HEAT Ships Plasma Nitrider to US Manufacturer It’s interesting that yesterday we mentioned orders for gas nitriders, today we mention a Plasma Nitriding order. From ION HEAT we have this press release about a system they have just shipped to a manufacturer in the US, this we believe is the second or third system the company has shipped this…
CFC/Alloy Hybrid – The Next Generation Solution
CFC/Alloy Hybrid – The Next Generation Solution With 100 years of experience in the design and manufacture of refractory alloy castings to the heat treatment market, the Cronite Group added machining and assembly of graphite and CFC fixtures to our product offerings in 1995 . The Carbon factory in our Arnage, France plant produces a full range of…
KGO to Install 3 Gas Nitriding Furnaces in the US Midwest
KGO to Install 3 Gas Nitriding Furnaces in the US Midwest “KGO has recently sold 3 gas nitriding furnaces to 3 different locations in the Midwest United States. The furnaces feature the unique control system developed by KGO and Stange. These 3 furnaces will make 25 total KGO furnaces throughout North America. The furnaces are currently being…
We’re Saved-IHEA Monthly Executive Economic Report
We’re Saved-IHEA Monthly Executive Economic Report Perhaps we’re exaggerating slightly but the IHEA (Industrial Heating Equipment Association) monthly economic report for August is the most positive we have seen for quite some time. This is the condensed version; There has been a remarkable level of economic turnaround taking place in the…