“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]
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…
USA PM Firm Places Order for 6 New Vacuum Sintering Furnaces
USA PM Firm Places Order for 6 New Vacuum Sintering Furnaces “SECO/VACUUM has only existed since 2017, but its legacy goes back a lot further than that. Parent company SECO/WARWICK had been building a variety of CAB, aluminum, atmosphere and vacuum furnaces for decades, but by 2017 it was apparent that vacuum heat treating had become so…
Rapid Progress on Solar Atmospheres of Michigan Expansion
Rapid Progress on Solar Atmospheres of Michigan Expansion The new 20,000-square-foot expansion of the Solar Atmospheres of Michigan Inc. facility is advancing swiftly. The Delta Industrial team has made significant progress by erecting the entire steel structure in only one week. The new building will not only house additional vacuum and air…
USA Commercial Heat Treater in Receivership-“Metals Technology”
USA Commercial Heat Treater in Receivership-“Metals Technology” Yesterday we had a news item entitled “USA Commercial Heat Treater Enters Receivership” https://themonty.com/usa-commercial-heat-treater-enters-receivership/ and as promised “The Monty Heat Treat News” followed up on this story-this is what we found out; While it would…
Furnace Builder Expanding USA Manufacturing Location
Furnace Builder Expanding USA Manufacturing Location “As part of its strategy to better serve its North American customers, the SECO/WARWICK Group, the parent company of SECO/VACUUM and SECO/WARWICK USA, has committed to expanding its manufacturing capacity in Meadville, Pennsylvania by relocating a portion of its manufacturing and a…
Advantages of CFC Fixtures When Case Hardening In Automotive Application
Advantages of CFC Fixtures When Case Hardening In Automotive Application The drive component cited in this article is case hardened in a multi purpose chamber furnace. The surface/weight ratio is low and characterized by a solid cross-section in different sizes. Component distortions due to heat treatment are thus less critical and are not…
SECO/WARWICK Organizes Heat Treatment 4.0 e-SEMINAR
SECO/WARWICK Organizes Heat Treatment 4.0 e-SEMINAR SECO/WARWICK – the leader in heat treatment and vacuum metallurgy – will hold the industry’s first virtual meeting of international specialists, and will share their knowledge and experience online. Expert Wednesday, September 9, includes 3 thematic blocks, speakers from around the world,…
Nitrex Poland Expanding
Nitrex Poland Expanding Scan through this news item and you will see that Nitrex is adding a large expansion to their manufacturing facility in southern Poland. When we at “The Monty” visited this facility a couple of years ago this is what we saw (below). In the pictures you see Gord Montgomery and the founder of Nitrex Mr. Michael Korwin….
Accurate Brazing, From This to This
Accurate Brazing, From This to This Back in December of 2019 we had the press release below from Accurate Brazing in Greenville, SC about adding a second HIP unit. Well it looks to us like the installation is now completed and ready to go. Accurate Brazing Adds Second Hot Isostatic Press from Quintus Technologies “Västerås, Sweden, November 19,…
HK 2020 Exhibition October 21-22/2020
HK 2020 Exhibition October 21-22/2020 It breaks our hearts that we not be able to attend HK 2020, the annual German heat treatment exhibition held the last few years in Cologne. The reason of course is COVID-19 and bearing that in mind we now have some details about the HK2020 “Virtual” show. We reminisced about the show last year and came up…
US/Canada Border Closed
US/Canada Border Closed As a Canadian and a businessman I am very aware that the US/Canadian border is closed to all but essential travel, however US citizens are not as aware of this situation. The bottom line is that while Canada does allow visitors from other countries, those visitors must self-quarantine for 14 days which is impractical for…