“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,...
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]
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...
Busch Acquires VESCO-McLaughlin-A Pattern
Earlier this week "The Monty Heat Treat News" was the first to announce the acquisition of the VESCO Division of McLaughlin Furnace Group by Busch Vacuum Solutions US. The news was not unexpected and represents a very good business decision by both groups in the humble opinion of "The Monty Heat...
Cincinnati Steel Treating Appoints Operations Manager
Cincinnati Steel Treating enjoys a long and very impressive history in the commercial heat treating industry which goes back to 1941. Their capabilities include nitriding, hardening, induction, carburizing and aluminum processing to name just a few CST: Heat Treating Services & Metal Treating of...
Titanium Foundry Adds Furnace
"L&L Special Furnace has delivered a highly uniform, front-loading box furnace to a northeastern US supplier of titanium castings for the aerospace and power generation fields. The company deals with exotic metals such as nickel and cobalt-based alloys that are ideal for superior products using...
UPC-Marathon awarded Pit Furnace Controls Upgrade at Overton Chicago Gear
"Obsidian Technical Group and Dana Liebelt with the support of UPC-Marathon, a Nitrex Company, have secured a contract to upgrade the furnace controls for Overton Chicago Gear, a leading US manufacturer of gears and gearboxes. The project will include all-new carburizing controls for a large pit...
John Deere, Waterloo, Iowa
John Deere out in Waterloo, Iowa, USA suffered a small fire Monday of this week at their downtown Waterloo heat treating facility. It appears that it occurred in the ducting but luckily everybody reacted quickly and efficiently and damage was very limited. John Deere is rated as one of the 10...
Solar Atmospheres, Western PA Constructs New Brazing/Assembly Room
Hermitage PA, November 26, 2019 – Solar Atmospheres of Western PA has completed construction of a new brazing and assembly room. Though built primarily to accommodate a large aluminum brazing project for a specific customer, the room will be used for other brazing and assembly work, as well. The...
Heat Treat Mexico 20
March 3-5 ASM will be presenting Heat Treat Mexico 20 in Queretaro, Mexico https://www.asminternational.org/web/heat-treat-mexico/home Topics to be covered include CQI-9 for the automotive industry, NADCAP for the aerospace industry and discussions about carburizing furnaces and vacuum furnaces to...
Wittman Harterei, Uhingen, Germany
We recently visited commercial heat treater Wittman Harterei in Germany for the purpose of seeing their just completed expansion and new equipment additions. We did a full write up about the company at that time but we missed this photo. In it we can see the brand new portion of the facility which...
People News
Remember how we mentioned a week ago how Mike Arnold a heat treat engineer working with one of the largest commercial heat treaters in Michigan had parted ways with the company? As it turns out he now has a really cool new position, that of Heat Treat Process Coach at Ford Motor Company in Michigan....
Monday Morning Briefing
We see that Chicago Powdered Metal Products Co., a powdered metal manufacturer of auto components recently closed their Schiller Park, Illinois, USA plant. We knew little about this operation other than the fact that their heat treat was pretty typical for a powdered metal/sintering operation, a...