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....
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]
Vacu Braze Expands Capabilities With Clean Processing Furnace
“Quakertown, PA - Vacu Braze, a precision heat treatment facility, recently purchased and installed an American-manufactured vacuum furnace to expand its clean vacuum processing capabilities. The new furnace is now fully operational and already yielding benefits in the company’s state of the art...
Commercial Heat Treating-A Family Affair
It is estimated that there are several hundred commercial heat treaters in North America, probably at least half of these are small and medium sized family owned and run businesses-such is Cambridge Heat Treat in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1982 by Bob Robbins, it is now owned and run by...
Commercial Heat Treater Adds Nitriding System
According to this press release a commercial heat treater in Turkey by the name of Saglam Metal has recently installed a new, pit style gas nitriding furnace as can be seen in the PR below. Largely due to a substantial presence of automotive suppliers in the county Turkey boasts a large, varied and...
AVION Europe Adding Location
AVION Europa GmbH & Co. KG is German company supplying various parts and components to the heat treatment industry (incidentally there is an AVION Heat Treatment Equipment in Ohio also). The company recently announced they opened another facility in the Lower Rhine area of Germany as we can see...
Laser Heat Treating, Additive Manufacturing LLC
Laser heat treating represents a miniscule portion of the heat treating market but it is one that we run across from time so it was with great interest that Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" recently visited a company in Clinton Township, Michigan, USA who offers laser heat treating....
Heat Treatment Vietnam
In our quest to see Heat treatment departments around the world, Gord and Dale Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” are visiting Laos and Vietnam. While this photo has nothing to do with heat treating it is rather interesting. This is “The Gateway to Heaven” located on the China/Vietnam border....
Rightway Fasteners to Add More Heat Treating Capacity
In Columbus, Indiana, USA fastener manufacture and captive heat treater Rightway has plans on expanding. During a meeting with Columbus City Council earlier this week the company was granted a tax abatement which will help the company expand, add 9 new jobs in 2020 and add three new coating lines...
Bodycote, South Windsor, CT, USA Installs Vacuum Furnace
The Bodycote location in South Windsor, CT just commissioned this brand new bottom load vacuum furnace (which looks like an Ipsen to us). The furnace is rated for +/- 10F. The South Windsor plant carries Nadcap, AS9100 and ITAR to support a diverse group of Aerospace and Defense manufacturers and...
Lindberg/MPH Sells Homocarb Pit Furnace
If you scan through this press release you will see that a very well known individual in the North American furnace manufacturing industry, Mr. Bill St. Thomas is quoted. This gives us the opportunity to include this photo of Bill which was taken at the ASM Heat Treat Show in Columbus, Ohio, USA...
Mr. Michael Frison, Nitrex Turnkey Systems
From our friends at Nitrex we have this press release; "The new year brings a new face to the Nitrex sales team. We are please to announce the appointment of Mr. Michel Frison as Vice-President Global Sales of the Nitrex Turnkey Systems (NTS) division. He joins Nitrex with extensive experience in...
Used Furnace Appraisals
One of the services we offer at “The Monty” is used equipment appraisals. Send us a brief description of what you have available along with a few photos and we will happily provide you with an idea about what your equipment is worth on the used market and roughly how long it will take to sell. Why...
Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIPPING), Spain
We’re not going to repeat yet again how the HIP process seems to be gathering momentum but it does seem like every time we turn around we have another press release about a new HIP installation. In this case this press release is from Spain and we know absolutely nothing about the company beyond the...













