Ipsen Customer Service (ICS) Team Expands to Support Growing Aftermarket Needs
Ipsen bolsters its aftermarket team with the addition of two new Regional Sales Engineers. Tyler Free will support customers in the Midwest, while Charlie Preston will serve the Southeast region. They join a seasoned team, including Steve Mondorf (West), Tom Sutherland (South), and Chad Mehmel...
Automotive Company Orders Second EndoFlex Generator From UPC-Marathon, a Nitrex Company
"An automotive company in South America has recently placed a follow-up order for a second EndoFlex generator from UPC-Marathon, a Nitrex company. Following the successful installation of a 200 m³/h EndoFlex unit last year, the new generator, boasting a similar capacity, aims to enhance stability,...
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]
SSi Mexico
Recently Jordan and Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" attended the ASM 2024 Heat Treat exhibition in Queretaro, Mexico during which time they were able to visit a number of in house and commercial heat treaters in area. For many of these visits their hosts were the local SSi team-they...
German Fastener Manufacturer Adds Mesh Belt Furnace Line
Today (April 22, 2024) "The Monty" was able to visit a large German manufacturer of automotive and aerospace fasteners. What made this visit very memorable was that the company is just days away from starting up a brand new mesh belt furnace line with a capacity of 1,000 kg/hour (2,200 pounds). ...
“The Monty” Visits “Top 11” Captive Heat Treater
For a number of years now "The Monty Heat Treat News" has been putting together an annual list of the "Top 11 Captive Heat Treaters in North America". This list includes what we believe to be the 11 largest single location captive heat treaters in North America. One that we visited last week in...
European Manufacturer Adds Nitriding System
"Kuźnia Jawor S.A., a European company specializing in the production of hot forged and CNC machined components for the automotive, machinery, mining, and piping industries, has enhanced its manufacturing capabilities through a substantial plant modernization. Located in the southwestern region of...
US Heat Treat Fire Blamed on Foreign Sabotage?
In almost 30 years of reporting news about the global heat treatment industry "The Monty Heat Treat News" has reported on many fires and whenever possible the cause. However this is the first time we have run across a fire in a heat treat department possibly being blamed on foreign sabotage-read on...
Michigan, USA Fastener Manufacturer to Install 3 Mesh Belt Lines?
Earlier this year "The Monty Heat Treat News" had a news item about a Turkish company by the name of Norm Fasteners investing in a new fastener manufacturing facility in Lansing, Michigan. The original news item can be found below and as our readers can see we mentioned at the time that it would...
Why Aerospace Heat Treating is Going to Slow Down
From the Wall Street Journal comes the summary below about current and future aircraft sales for Boeing and Airbus. For the captive and commercial heat treating industries this could perhaps be more aptly entitled “Why Aerospace Heat Treating is Going to Slow Down”. To date many of the heat treaters...
Plasma Nitriding/Modern Metals India
From Mr. Ankit Gupta, Director of commercial heat treater Modern Metals India we have this article about Plasma Nitriding, where and how you use it. In the first photo we see Gord Montgomery, Ankit and Rakesh, Gupta at the Thermprocess show in Dusseldorf, Germany June 2019. The second photo shows a...
Captive Heat Treater John Hassal Inc., Closes-Equipment to be Auctioned
Back in June of 2019 it was announced that custom fastener manufacturer in Westbury, NY, would be closing the plant by the end of the year (a news report is below). It has now been announced that the equipment will be auctioned June 30 of this year. Included in the auction will be a number of heat...
Heat Treat Industry Market Reports
Not a day goes by at “The Monty” that we don’t receive an e mail offer promoting the most recent heat treat industry report. Examples from this week include; “Informative Report On Vertical Vacuum Furnaces Market 2020 With Key Players Ipsen, Tenova, IHI Machinery and Furnace etc.”, “Automotive Heat...
Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters
Since 1999 “The Monty” has regularly put together a list of the largest commercial heat treaters operating in North America, our 2019 list can be found at https://themonty.com/project/largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treats-august-2019/ We are in the process of putting together our list for...
Gasbarre Delivers Custom Batch Tempering Furnace
"Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems recently delivered a custom built batch tempering furnace to a commercial heat treating company located in the heart of the Aerospace industry on the West Coast of the United States. With a working load size of 168” wide, 48” deep, and 48” tall, coupled with a...