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). ...
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]
“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...
Metlab HT Closing Giving Gear Suppliers “Headaches”
The recent closing of commercial heat treater "Metlab Heat Treat in Wyndmoor, PA, USA (the original news release can be found below) has had lasting ramifications on the gear industry in North America-let us explain. Metlab in size we would have considered to be "average" in terms of annual sales...
Crio, Mexico Top 5 Mexican Heat Treat
It has been 4 years since “The Monty Heat Treat News” visited commercial heat treater “Crio” ( https://www.criomx.com/ws/services.html) in Querétaro, Mexico and we welcomed the opportunity for another visit last week. What we found was a company which has invested heavily since then both in terms of...
Delta Heat Services, Belgium Moves to New Location
Delta Heat Services based in the Netherlands has 5 locations in Europe and 1 in the Caribbean offering annealing, stress relieving and induction heat treating services. Just a week ago the company proudly announced that they had moved into a brand new facility in Antwerp. The photo below shows one...
Monday Morning Briefing
We will start off with a bit of “people” news. First up we see that Jesús Gerardo Calderón Reyna recently became Vice President of Operations at ALD TRATAMIENTOS TERMICOS SA DE CV in Mexico. ALD TT (Thermal Treatment) is a commercial heat treater specializing in vacuum carburizing and Jesús has been...
Mercer Technologies Press Release
Below we have a press release from Mike Mercer Sr. regarding the status of Mercer Technologies in these challenging times. "For all Mercer Technologies customers: Subject: Critical Infrastructure Continued Operations during the COVID-19 crisis Mercer Technologies, Inc. is a supplier for companies...
Happy Easter!
"The Monty" Will be closed Friday April 10 for Easter holiday's. We will resume regular news updates on Monday April 13. Happy Easter!
In House Heat Treating, AGCO/FENDT, Marktoberdorf, Germany (Part II)
Yesterday we looked at part of the in house heat treating department of FENDT Tractors in Germany, specifically we took a look at the immaculate “pusher” furnace department. Today we look at the other part of the department which consists of a number of batch IQ furnaces with an entire cell...
Obituary for David Miles Kailburn
We very much regret mentioning that David Miles Kailburn recently passed away. Dave's entire working life revolved around the commercial heat treating industry in Upstate, NY, USA working with companies such as Jasco Heat Treating and Rochester Steel Treating Works. We found this photo of Dave (on...