L&L Special Furnace Delivers a Box Furnace
L&L Special Furnace has delivered a highly uniform box furnace to a distributor of equipment to maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities located throughout the world. The L&L Model XLB124 has working dimensions of 11” wide by 10” high by 22” deep. The furnace is capable of...
UK Heat Treater Investing in More Equipment
From one of the largest heat treaters in the UK we have this press release; "FEBRUARY 15/2023; Extra Nitriding Capacity added to Wallwork Birmingham. Increasing the total units to 8 for the group, this 940mm diameter x 1100mm deep unit will vastly increase capacity for the site and group, and help...
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]
Winston Heat Treating Purchases 2 New Tempering Furnaces
"The Monty Heat Treat News" would like to share the press release below about Winston Heat Treating purchasing 2 new temper furnaces from Delta H. Below that we have a previous article about Winston Heat Treating making the list of largest commercial heat treaters in North America. Dayton, OH: ...
Vacuum Brazing, Aalberts surface technologies
Earlier this week "The Monty Heat Treat News" profiled one of the 3 locations Aalberts surface technologies’ HIP | braze | heat treatment division maintains in the Greenville, SC, USA region (https://themonty.com/aalberts-surface-technologies-invites-the-monty-heat-treat-news-to-visit/) Today we...
Plasma Nitriding Gas Compressor Cylinders, Stamping Dies & Other Cast Iron Applications by Dr. Edward Rolinski of Advanced Heat Treat Corp.
Ion (plasma) nitriding is an environmentally-friendly and safe technology allowing the treatment of ferrous alloys in a very controllable way [1-6]. The active nitrogen species are formed directly at the surface needing hardening and not in the entire vacuum chamber. Therefore, the process uses a...
Solar Atmospheres Obtains Boeing Approval for Vacuum Oil Quenching
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA is pleased to announce the approval of a critical Boeing specification for the oil quenching of alloy steels in accordance with Boeing’s specification BAC 5617. Michael Johnson, Sales Director states, “We are honored to earn this accreditation from Boeing. The...
Images of Heat Treatment, IMT Duncan, SC, USA
It is rather ironic that our "Images of Heat Treatment, SC" shows a photo of a substantial pit furnace at IMT Duncan in Duncan, South Carolina, USA when in actual fact the company is best known as the only large continous heat treater in the US state of South Carolina. Let us start at the beginning....
Large Captive Heat Treater Aquired by Timken Bearings
Recently it was announced that bearing company TImken had acquired a North Carolina, USA firm by the name of American Roller Bearing Company, a supplier of industrial bearings. In and of itself this is not especially exciting for a heat treat news website such as "The Monty Heat Treat News" however...
StandardAero Celebrates 30,000-Square-Foot Expansion at Ohio, USA Plant
This press release tells us how Standard Aero has just celebrated the expansion of their facility in Hillsboro, Ohio, USA-what it doesn’t tell us is whether this includes any expansion of their heat treating department. It is certainly possible since their locations in Miami, Florida, Winnipeg,...
ALD SyncroTherm System Shipped to China
If you recall September 12 of this year we had a news item about German furnace builder ALD shipping a “SyncroTherm” furnace system to China-along with that item we had a few comments about how many such systems the company has sold over the years (the original article can be found further down). In...
Where Are They Now-Ron Graham
Ron Graham has bounced in and out of the heat treat industry with stints at furnace builder Surface Combustion, furnace builder AFC-Holcroft and commercial heat treater Paulo where he worked out of the Cleveland office for one year. It would appear that he has left the industry again just one month...
Cost of in House Heat Treating
Now this is an interesting question, one which deserves some more attention in the near future-basically what is the cost of in house heat treating? We have condensed the original question but the gist remains the same. The question reminds us of a very large captive / commercial heat treater in New...
Mayer Industries, Orangeburg, SC, USA Auction
Braiding machine manufacturer (we are not entirely sure what a braiding machine is), Mayer Industries in South Carolina, USA has closed their doors and the remaining equipment is going to auction October of this year. Our interest and yours is in the fact that there are a few heat treat items of...
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA Appoints Gregory Scheuring as Plant Metallurgist
“We are extremely pleased to announce the addition of Gregory Scheuring to our team, as Plant Metallurgist for Solar Atmospheres of Western PA (SAWPA). Greg is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering....