“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]
Top Heat Treat News Items Week of August 12th
Top Heat Treat News Items Week of August 12th Unfortunately, our “top 3” heat treatment news items for the week starting August 12th, are dominated by obituaries. Regular readers of “The Monty” will know that our “top 3” are selected by readership both on www.themonty.com and on social media and the passing of well known individuals in the…
Roger A. Jones
Roger A. Jones “Roger A. Jones, of Perkasie, PA, passed away on Thursday, August 15, 2024 at the Community at Rockhill, Sellersville, PA. He was 69. He was the loving husband of Patti A. (Renner) Jones. The couple celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary on March 8, 2024. Born in Abington, PA, he was the son of William R. and Myrtle E….
Now That’s a Furnace-Americarb
Now That’s a Furnace-Americarb CFC furnace fixturing has always been quite popular in Europe for a number of reasons including its light weight, lifespan and the fact that it doesn’t distort, however it has never caught on to the same extent in North America although it is slowly growing. The fact that it is growing lead us to accept an…
Super Systems Technical Seminar Portland, OR
Super Systems Technical Seminar Portland, OR
Roger Jones Solar Atmospheres-a Giant in the Industry
Roger Jones Solar Atmospheres-a Giant in the Industry It is with incredible regret that we mention the passing of a giant in the North American heat-treating industry, Mr. Roger A. Jones of Solar Atmospheres. While we have few details at this time we do have this brief history of his career in the heat treatment industry; “A 1974 graduate of…
CAN-ENG Furnaces International, Ltd., Plant #2 Expansion
CAN-ENG Furnaces International, Ltd., Plant #2 Expansion “CAN-ENG Furnaces International, Ltd. (CAN-ENG), Niagara Falls, Ontario, announces that it has made a major investment in their Plant #2 Operations, St. Catharines, Ontario. The expansion will consist of adding 45,000 ft 2 of modern manufacturing space and 18,000 ft 2 of future office…
SECO/WARWICK e-Seminar 4.0 Heat Treatment & Metallurgy
SECO/WARWICK e-Seminar 4.0 Heat Treatment & Metallurgy Today, Wednesday September 9th furnace builder SECO/WARWICK will be offering an online seminar about Heat Treatment and Metallurgy https://www.secowarwick.com/en/eseminar/ This looks to be a very well organized event which has been some time in the making. As we have reported in the past…
Heat Treat Industry News & Updates
Heat Treat Industry News & Updates Swiss furnace builder Codere (whose ad can be found on this page) has a new sales person. Jean-Michel Bilger was recently hired by the company to replace Olivier Chevre who left Codere earlier this year to take a position in another industry. Commercial heat treater Metlab in Pennsylvania, USA has a…
VCST China Installs Captive Heat Treatment Department
VCST China Installs Captive Heat Treatment Department VCST https://bmtdrivesolutions.com/ is a division of the BMT Group of Belgium, a company which supplies gear drives around the world. Our interest in the company stems from the fact that their locations in Belgium and Mexico both have substantial in house heat treat departments which are…
2020 CQI-9 Heat Treat 4th Edition Rollout Webinar
2020 CQI-9 Heat Treat 4th Edition Rollout Webinar “Registration is open for the CQI-9 Heat Treat Assessment 4th edition webinar. This event scheduled for September 17, 2020 at 10:00am EST is complimentary for all attendees and will focus on the most significant changes in each section of the new edition. The CQI-9 4th edition, released in June of…
Where Are They Now-Eric Nordin, Sun Steel Treating
Where Are They Now-Eric Nordin, Sun Steel Treating For years now we have been running across a fellow by the name of Eric Nordin who is part of a very small, elite group-a sales representative in the commercial heat treating industry. We are not being facetious when we say this, there are few individuals out there whose entire lives have been…
“The Monty” Over 21 Years Old and Still Going Strong
“The Monty” Over 21 Years Old and Still Going Strong A reader (Allied Heat Treat in Canada to be exact) came across one of our earliest newsletters and sent it over to us. This particular issue dates back to December of 2000 at which point we had been publishing “The Monty” for a little over 2 years. This issue looks rather modest now…