Furnacare/TAV Vacuum Furnaces, Spartanburg, SC, USA
In Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA "The Monty Heat Treat News" recently had the opportunity to visit "Furnacare" a division of TAV and TAV Engineering of Italy. TAV is one of the largest vacuum furnace builders in the world while TAV Engineering offers service, support and aftermarket assistance....
German Heat Treater Enters Bankruptcy Protection
Very unfortunately one of the larger German commercial heat treaters, HTU Härtetechnik GmbH https://www.htu-haertetechnik.de/ in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Germany entered insolvency proceedings February 17, 2023. Plans are that the company will remain in business, pay employees and suppliers and continue...
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]
Aalberts surface technologies-Garlington facility
Recently "The Monty Heat Treat News" profiled two Aalberts surface technologies HIP | braze | heat treatment locations in the Greenville, SC, US area, including the Pelham Road and Fairforest (formerly Ionic Technologies) facilities. Today we move on to a third location in the area, Aalberts Surface...
Industrial Automation Firm to add SECO/WARWICK Furnaces
An international organization in the field of industrial automation has ordered a SECO/WARWICK heat treatment system with the goal of establishing a captive hardening plant within their machine park. This comprehensive technological line for hardening applications will consist of two Vector® vacuum...
Acquisition in the Vacuum Pump Repair Industry
Effective February 8, 2023 Standard Vacuum Pump Services (SVPS) of Holbrook, New York, USA was acquired by Trillium US Inc. (Trillium) of Clackamas, Oregon, USA. "About Trillium; Trillium specializes in providing world-class vacuum pump repair, new and refurbished pumping systems, as well as...
John Ludeman has been promoted to Vice President of Operations at Advanced Heat Treat Corp.
"Advanced Heat Treat Corp. (AHT), a recognized leader in heat treat services and metallurgical solutions, announced the promotion of John Ludeman to Vice President of Operations. Ludeman has been employed at AHT since 2014 and most recently held the role of Director of Quality Excellence &...
Gas Nitrider Installed in Peru?
It is very seldom (well almost never) that we hear about heat treating in Peru so this press release about a new gas nitriding system being installed in Peru makes for interesting news. To the best of our knowledge this is the only gas nitrider installed in the entire country, however we know from...
Bodycote Receives Science-Based Target Initiative Approval For Emissions Targets
"Bodycote, the world's largest provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services, is pleased to announce its near-term science-based emissions target has been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). SBTi is an independent global body enabling businesses to set...
Heat Treat Industry Changes (What we are Learning at the Heat Treatment Show in Cologne, Germany)
We are pleased to introduce you to the relatively new CEO and President of worldwide nitriding technology specialist and commercial heat treater Nitrex along with the new President of United Process Controls (to clarify the two companies are sister companies with the same owner). In this photo you...
Thermetco, Montreal, Canada
Yesterday we mentioned how commercial heat treater Thermetco https://thermetco.com/en/home/ in Quebec, Canada has recently moved into a new building and added more capacity (scroll down to yesterdays news items for more details). To go with that news item we have these additional photos taken by...
Thermetco, Montreal, Canada
Jordan Montgomery of “The Monty” is in the Montreal, Canada region this week and he sent us these very interesting photos of commercial heat treater Thermetco, one of the largest commercial heat treaters in Eastern Canada. The company recently moved into a brand new location and already the company...
Heat Treatment Congress (HK) 2019 (Or What we Learned About The Heat Treatment Industry in Europe)
Yesterday (Tuesday October 22, 2019) marked the first day of the 3 day heat treatment exhibition in Cologne, Germany-we at "The Monty" are in attendance and this is what we learned; The heat treatment as a whole in Europe is slower these days, certainly not terrible but slower than it has been and...
DELTA H Commissions Dual Chamber Aerospace Heat Treating (DCAHT™) System to Sintavia for Additive Manufacturing (AM)
It is rather ironic that just yesterday we had a news item about how Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) was not benefitting North American furnace manufacturers to any great degree as this press release talks about a furnace being provided to the Additive Manufacturing (AM) industry. Obviously...
IVR Furnaces Italy
We would like to direct your attention to a banner ad on the right side of this page from Italian furnace builder IVR https://www.ivrsrl.it/en/ IVR is one of the largest furnace builders in Italy and will be exhibiting at the trade show in Cologne, Germany which starts tomorrow. We are expecting a...













