Robert J. (Bob) Swanlund February 13, 1957 – March 14, 2023
Longtime Metlab employee Robert J. (Bob) Swanlund of Philadelphia passed away suddenly at his residence last week. Bob was the beloved husband of Sharon, married for over 30 wonderful years. He was the loving father of Anthony and Brianna. He will be sadly missed by his grandchildren, Alexander,...
Ask the Heat Treat Recruiter
The Monty Heat Treat News has worked closely with International Search Partners, a US search firm which is known for being the only recruiting agency in the world working exclusively in the heat treatment industry, for many years now. In 2023, The Monty is pleased to announce that this relationship...
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]
Colorado, USA Heat Treater Moves to Larger Building, Adds More Capacity
We last mentioned commercial heat treater Metalex in Berthoud, Colorado, in June of 2022 when the company added a deep cryogenic system (the original posting is below). Since that time the firm has moved into a new 10,000 ft facility and added another cryogenic system, again from the same...
Joe Wuenning, WS Thermal Processing Technology Inc.-The Interview
Today Gord Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” Speaks with Mr. Joe Wuenning, President of WS Thermal Processing Technology Inc. Gord Montgomery; I am going to go out on a limb and say unequivocally that the foremost topic in the heat treatment industry these days is that of energy and...
Komatsu Mining Auctions Off Surplus Heat Treating Equipment
Heavy equipment supplier and captive heat treater Komatsu Mining is auctioning off a number of heat treating furnaces which are surplus to their ongoing operations as we speak. Komatsu Mining, West Milwaukee Manufacturing Facility is having an ongoing “on line” auction which features a wide variety...
Captive Heat Treater Completes Installation Of Mammoth Heat Treat Department
Castool Tooling Systems, based in Uxbridge, Canada, designs and manufactures production tooling systems for the extrusion and die casting industries. For the extrusion sector, the company pioneered the fixed dummy block, thermally stable container, single cell die heater, and other innovations....
Metal Finishing Company Steel Heat Treat Installs Large Air Age Oven
"Metal Finishing Company just added a new larger Air Age oven on 3/17/23. The Next Gen Air Age Oven was supplied by McLaughlin Furnace Group. The furnace will have a work zone of 60” x 192” x 60” with a temperature range of 300F – 1400F with a +/- 10F range. This furnace meets AMS2750G and allows...
Circuit Breaker Manufacturer Orders Three Vacuum Furnaces
“A Chinese manufacturer of a wide variety of vacuum circuit breakers trusted SECO/WARWICK for the second time by ordering vacuum furnaces for metal heat treatment. This order includes three Vector vacuum furnaces that ensure a very high vacuum level and temperature uniformity within the entire load....
FPM Heat Treating Consolidating Plants
There was a news report in several Milwaukee, WI, USA newspapers and on this site reporting that commercial heat treater FPM Heat Treating based in Elk Grove, Illinois, USA would be closing their facility at 11200 W. Heather Avenue in Milwaukee by mid May of 2020. As it turns out this report was not...
Thermal Modification Technologies/ Tualatin, Oregon, USA
The commercial heat treating industry all around the world is dominated by family owned businesses-as "The Monty" has always been a family owned business we have always had a soft spot in our hearts for these companies. Out near Portland, Oregon Thermal Modification Technologies is a perfect...
Aerospace Testing & Pyrometry Opens Regional Office in Greenville, SC
"Aerospace Testing & Pyrometry would like to announce the opening of our newest regional office in Greenville, SC. The new office will be headed by our Southeast Division Manager Richard Rasmussen. The territory will include North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and...
Oregon Induction + Thermal
Oregon Induction + Thermal is one of a very rare breed of commercial heat treater in that they have grown and prospered over the years largely by offering Induction hardening. As a matter of fact we can count on the fingers of one hand the number of commercials in North America who concentrate on...
TS USA, Chattanooga, TN, USA
In Tennessee, USA commercial heat treater TS USA had a small fire which made headlines in many of the local newspapers but caused very little actual damage as it was put out quite quickly. We weren’t familiar with the name to begin with however a little research gave us the whole story. This...
Hauck Heat Treatment, SECO/WARWICK
A couple of weeks ago we had a news item about Hauck Heat Treatment in the Netherlands installing a new very large SECO/WARWICK vacuum furnace. We now have the official press release from SECO. To see the relative size of Hauck compared to other European heat treaters we would suggest this...