MTI’s 2028 YES Leadership Development Program Sells Out in Just Five Days
MTI’s 2028 YES Leadership Development Program Sells Out in Just Five Days The Metal Treating Institute (MTI) has announced that its 2028 YES (Young Executives Society) Leadership Development Program sold out in just five days after registration opened on July 1, making it one of the fastest-selling classes in the program’s history. The…
Solar Atmospheres Welcomes Ava Conolly as Metallurgical / R&D Engineer
Solar Atmospheres Welcomes Ava Conolly as Metallurgical / R&D Engineer Solar Atmospheres is pleased to announce the addition of Ava Conolly to its Research & Development team as a Metallurgical / R&D Engineer. Ava recently earned her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University, with a concentration in materials…
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 “Heat Treat Podcast” Speaks With Bob Hill of “Solar Atmospheres”
The “Heat Treat Podcast” Speaks With Bob Hill of “Solar Atmospheres” This week our intelligent, handsome and witty host Mr. Carlos Torres of the “Heat Treat Podcast” speaks with Mr. Bob Hill, President of commercial heat treat “Solar Atmospheres of Western PA” and “Solar Atmospheres of Michigan”. The entire team at “The…
Chromalox Expansion Includes Gasbarre Continuous Annealing Furnace
Chromalox Expansion Includes Gasbarre Continuous Annealing Furnace In October 2023 “Chromalox” announced that they were making a major investment in their manufacturing facility in Ogden, Utah, USA an investment which includes more heat treat capacity-this announcement can be found further down. Part of this investment included a mesh belt…
Top 3 Heat Treatment News Stories Week of July 15th 2024
Top 3 Heat Treatment News Stories Week of July 15th 2024 Our top 3 news items for the week starting July 15th/2024 based upon visitors to https://themonty.com/heat-treat-news/ and social media “views” include these three; Heat Treating in Turkey-DÖNÜŞÜM ISIL İŞLEM; From a regular reader in the Turkish heat treat market about commercial heat…
Fuel Injector Supplier Adds Nitriding System
Fuel Injector Supplier Adds Nitriding System “Nitrex has successfully completed the installation of a third nitriding system at a leading manufacturer specializing in high-performance fuel injection systems for diesel engines in maritime vessels. This new investment underscores the customer’s commitment to advancing manufacturing capabilities and…
Solar Atmospheres of Michigan Facility Expansion
Solar Atmospheres of Michigan Facility Expansion To this interesting press release from commercial heat treater Solar Atmospheres, we can add that Gord Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” was fortunate enough to be able to see this facility at the very beginning. The individual with his thumbs up in one of the photos below is none other…
Top 50 Heat Treater Appoints General Manager
Top 50 Heat Treater Appoints General Manager Commercial heat treater Paulo, ranked as one of the 50 largest North American commercial heat treaters by “The Monty Heat Treat News” has appointed a new Plant Manager for their St. Louis, MO location; https://themonty.com/project/the-montys-50-largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treaters-2024/ …
Bodycote Trading Update
Bodycote Trading Update The world’s largest commercial heat treater just released a trading update for the first 4 months of this year. This is a condensed version with the full version available at https://www.bodycote.com/ “Bodycote, the world’s leading provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services, is issuing a trading…
Krohne UK Installs Largest Horizontal Vacuum Furnace in the UK
Krohne UK Installs Largest Horizontal Vacuum Furnace in the UK Captive heat treater and supplier of industrial process instrumentation Krohne has just installed the largest horizontal vacuum furnace in the UK. The furnace which was supplied by Ipsen, has working dimensions of 1200mm x 1200mm x 2400mm with an all moly hot zone and 6 bar quenching….
RUBIG Installing Their Two Largest Nitriding Furnaces Ever
RUBIG Installing Their Two Largest Nitriding Furnaces Ever “RUBIG Industrial Furnaces, a leading manufacturer of heat treating furnaces, is actually putting the two largest nitriding furnaces in their company history into operation! Both of them are MICROPULS® Everest DUO plasma nitriding furnaces – the technological flagship of the Austrian…
New director at IWT Bremen, Germany
New director at IWT Bremen, Germany IWT Bremen, Germany is a research organization jointly funded by the German government and private industry to research materials and heat treating processes. We have been fortunate enough to be able to visit their facility in Bremen several times over the years and have been suitably impressed as the institute…
Marc Ruetsch, Managing Director of AFC-Holcroft European Operations to Retire
Marc Ruetsch, Managing Director of AFC-Holcroft European Operations to Retire “AFC-Holcroft announces the retirement of Marc Ruetsch , Managing Director of European Operations, on May 29, 2020. Ruetsch , who joined AFC-Holcroft in 2008, spent his entire career spanning nearly 50 years working exclusively with materials and heat treatment…
HK 2020 Cologne, Germany
HK 2020 Cologne, Germany We have always said that one of our favorite heat treat events in the world is the annual HK 2020 Congress held October of each year in Germany. We are now getting word that due to COVID 19 there will be substantial changes made and that this year the HK Congress will take place as an online event. We are awaiting more…