Heat Treat Assets Auctioned Off
In 2023 MT Heat Treat in Mentor, Ohio, USA was forced to close with the assets ceased by the bank and sent to auction just last week (our original stories are below). With the auction now concluded we can give you an update. As expected all of the ancillary equipment which included a number of...
Nitrided Titanium Alloys vs Nitrided Stainless Steels Authored by Dr. Edward Rolinski of Advanced Heat Treat Corp.
Applications of stainless steel (SS) have been known for over a hundred years. Enhancing tribological properties of these alloys can be achieved by using nitriding [1, 2]. However, the standard nitriding process has limited abilities to improve corrosion resistance of SS unless it is used at very...
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]
Avion Europe a Growing Force in the German Heat Treat Market
A recent visit by “The Monty Heat Treat News” to AVION Europa GmbH & Co., based in Hagen, Germany revealed to us a firm which is thriving as a provider of heat treating sales and services to the German heat treatment industry-both captive and commercial. Our hosts, co owners Mr. Roland Caminades...
Aichelin Enters Vacuum Furnace Market
Yesterday we had a press release from Austrian furnace builder Aichelin Group about the firm forming a joint venture with Turkish furnace builder Sistem Teknik to "produce and distribute industrial vacuum heat treatment technologies and services in Europe"...
Furnace Builder Aichelin to Offer Vacuum Furnaces
"The AICHELIN Group and Sistem Teknik have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture in Austria. This joint venture will produce and distribute industrial vacuum heat treatment technologies and services in Europe. The AICHELIN Group is thus adding a promising segment to its existing product...
New Commercial Heat Treat in Tennessee
According to this press release a German company by the name of BorTec will be setting up a commercial heat treat facility in Johnson City, TN. Once completed the facility will offer "boronizing"; "Boriding, or Boronizing, is a thermo-chemical surface hardening process used to improve the life and...
Largest North American Captive Heat Treats-Tinker Air Force Base
As we work towards our 2024 list of the "15 Largest Single Location Captive Heat Treats in North America" we have another new listing, one that has not appeared on our previous lists and a very unusual one at that. Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma is one of the largest US Air Force bases in the...
Largest Captive Heat Treaters North America-Dana Fairfield
"The Monty Heat Treat News" has for a number of years been publishing a list of the largest single location captive heat treaters in North America-our 2023 industry exclusive list can be found at https://themonty.com/project/11-largest-captive-heat-treats-north-america-an-industry-exclusive/ This...
McLaughlin Furnace Group-New Building
McLaughlin Furnace Group in Avilla, Indiana, USA is getting closer to moving into their new facility. This photo shows the progress on their new building, a building which the company is moving into later this year. To find out more about the company we would point you to an interview we did with...
Will Furnaces North America Go Ahead?
The largest North American heat treat show of 2020, Furnaces North America (FNA) is scheduled to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, USA September 30th to October 2nd of this year. Due to COVID 19 the question on everybody’s lips these days is; will the show go ahead as planned or will it share the...
Youngstown Tool & Die Upgrades In House Heat Treatment
To this rather interesting press release from SECO/WARWICK we can add that Youngstown Tool & Die has some very big plans these days. The company is planning on investing at least $10 million USD in the near future and part of this expansion includes taking over another facility. Currently the...
The Monty Heat Treat Newsletter June, 2020
The link below will take you to the June 2020 issue of “The Monty”, the World’s Largest Heat Treat Industry News Source. In this issue you can read about the 30 largest commercial heat treaters in North America-a “Monty” exclusive, learn about the passing of a well known individual in the heat treat...
Pete Kerbel, Vice President of Sales, Ipsen-The Video Interview
Today we are pleased to present to you a first for us at “The Monty” a video interview with Mr. Peter Kerbel, Vice President of Sales at furnace builder Ipsen. In this interview Gord Montgomery of “The Monty” and Pete Kerbel discuss a number of topics including how the COVID 19 virus is changing the...
Monday Morning Briefing
Our Monday Morning Briefing for June 1, 2020 starts off in Italy at a commercial heat treater by the name of Grupo TTN. The company is in the news today as they are just installing a very large batch IQ furnace built by Italian furnace builder Meapforni. The furnace has a capacity of 3,000 Kg (6,600...