Heat Treating in Vietnam
Dale and Gord Montgomery will be visiting Vietnam in mid march of this year with the intention of visiting at least one heat treat. While news about the heat treat industry there is very rare "The Monty Heat Treat News" has spoken in the past about a pump manufacturer in the country who has a very...
Solar Atmospheres South Carolina Facility Awarded Northrop Grumman Approval
"Solar Atmospheres Greenville, SC facility is pleased to announce it has been awarded Northrop Grumman approval. With this approval, now all five Solar Atmospheres facilities are an option for our customers with Northrop Grumman requirements for vacuum heat treating services. Steve Prout, President...
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]
Premium Auto Parts Supplier Invests in New Vacuum Furnace
Standard Motor Products, Inc. https://www.smpcorp.com/en is a leading manufacturer and distributor of premium automotive parts to both the aftermarket and original equipment customers. In the aftermarket, SMP's products are used in the maintenance, service and repair of vehicles, and are largely...
Japanese Heat Treater Sees Energy Bill Double to $600,000 USD/Month
Energy Pricing has been an enormous issue to the global heat treatment industry and “The Monty Heat Treat News” has touched on this subject many times. Very recently a Japanese reader sent us this article with a summary that North Americans have little to complain about. Their example is a company...
“The Monty Heat Treat News” Visits Solar Atmospheres of Michigan
January 9th of this year it was announced that commercial heat treater Vac-Met in Michigan had been acquired by Solar Atmospheres. That announcement also mentioned that the 9 existing vacuum furnaces at Vac-Met would be moved to a brand new location in Chesterfield, Michigan. Armed with this...
Jimmy Morris May 14th 1959-February 23, 2023
The heat treat industry recently lost another good one, Mr. Jimmy Morris. Jimmy was best known in the southern USA, in particular in Texas where he worked with a number of captive and commercial heat treaters installing control systems and servicing furnaces. He will be missed. "Jimmy Neil Morris,...
Burner Company “Noxmat” Formally Enters North American Market
"Noxmat Industrial Heating Technology" formally entered the North American market March 1/2023 when they set up a brand new facility in Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA. Noxmat based in Germany has long been a significant player in the global heating technology industry with locations in Europe,...
Unannealed Pinions Causes Ford To Recall Vehicles
"Ford’s quality control appears to be getting worse. The Dearborn-based automaker somehow forgot to anneal the front axle pinions that equip certain F-150, Expedition, and Lincoln Navigator vehicles. By not receiving the proper heat treatment, said pinions are prone to fracture, resulting in the...
Ipsen Supplies Four Vacuum Furnaces for Additive Manufacturing Production
Ipsen USA was recently awarded an order to supply a West Coast aerospace customer with four TITAN® H6 2 bar vacuum furnaces that will be used for heat treating additively manufactured parts in full-scale production. Ipsen shipped two of the furnaces in November and will ship the remaining two in...
Solar Manufacturing Builds MuShield’s First Vacuum Furnace
"The MuShield Co. of Londonderry, New Hampshire, has commissioned Solar Manufacturing to design their first-ever vacuum furnace. The furnace, built with a SolarVac® Polaris control system and fully compliant to AMS2750E pyrometric specification, is designed to accommodate loads up to 36” wide x 36”...
Angstrom Precision Metals, Mentor, Ohio, USA
The Angstrom Precison Metals facility in Mentor, Ohio (a manufacturer of a wide variety of automotive components) recently closed throwing all of their equipment on to the used market. This includes quite a bit of machining equipment along with a very sizable heat treat department. The heat treat...
Stephen Harris, Bodycote-The Interview
We are excited to be sharing with you an interview with Mr. Stephen Harris, CEO of UK based Bodycote, the world’s largest commercial heat treater and the most influential individual in the North American Heat Treating industry https://themonty.com/articles/ Stephen offers us his thoughts on why...
Stack Metallurgical Group Augments Hot Isostatic Pressing Capacity with Second System from Quintus Technologies
"Spurred by a successful entry into Hot Isostatic Pressing at the beginning of this year, Stack Metallurgical Group is redoubling its commitment to the technology with the addition of a second Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) from Quintus Technologies. A trusted provider of heat treating and metal...
HMW in Ybbsitz, Austria Adding Capacity
It's kind of a coincidence that we have run across the name Robert Noebauer several times recently. We had this news item about Robert October 27th of this year; "Robert Noebauer who has had a long distinguished career in the heat treating industry in Austria has a new job. We first met Robert when...