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...
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]
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...
Aalberts Surface Technologies Invites “The Monty Heat Treat News” To Visit
Aalberts Surface Technologies (the world's second largest commercial heat treater) recently invited Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" to visit their Fairforest, SC, USA facility (this location was formerly known as Ionic Technologies). In 1998 Netherlands based Aalberts made their first...
Commercial Heat Treater Receives Multi Million Euro Investment
Expanite, the Danish pioneer and growth company within hardening and heat treatment of stainless steel and titanium, receives its largest capital increase to date. Approximately 12 years after the company was created out of a research project at the Technical University of Denmark, having built a...
Changes at Top 50 North American Heat Treater
This interesting story covers one of the 50 largest commercial heat treaters in North America as ranked by “The Monty Heat Treat News”, Century LLC in Traverse City, Michigan, USA. The Monty Heat Treat News – 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2022 | The Monty “Feb. 10—TRAVERSE CITY —...
Where In The World?
This week Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" will be profiling several captive and commercial heat treaters in the USA including this one. Know this company? You certainly will by the end of this week. Did you like this article? Click here to subscribe to The Monty. View our recent...
Auction, Assets Formerly Of Torqtek
Auto parts supplier American Axle & Manufacturing recently closed down their facility in Charleston, SC, USA (this was the former Torqtek facility). Thursday October 17th starting at 10:00 AM the remaining assets which include CNC Hobbers, gear shavers, chamfering machine, machining centers,...
An Understanding of the Annealing and Normalizing Process’s By David Pye Part 1
A Simple Review of the process of Annealing.We know that the purpose of annealing is to make the steel soft and malleable. We know that the process of normalizing will provide a uniform prior grain structure and flow. We know that the process of stress relieving will reduce induced stresses in the...
Paul Dymond-35 Years At Bodycote
We happened to see on one of the social media sites that Mr. Paul Dymond of Bodycote was celebrating 35 years with the company (Paul is now Regional General Manager-Western USA). This prompted our recollection of a picture we posted of Paul back in 2010. In this photo you can see Paul arm wrestling...
25 Most Influential People in The North American Heat Treating Industry
With the help of our readers (just over 300 different suggestions in total) we have completed our 2019 list of the 25 Most Influential People in the North American Heat Treating Industry. The basic criteria we suggested to make the list is that the individuals named are in positions to change the...
Monday Morning Briefing
Furnace builder AFC-Holcroft of Wixom, Michigan, USA (part of Aichelin Group) just last week held an open house as we can see in this photo. We see what appears to be a total of 4 large batch IQ furnaces in various stages of construction-no idea who they are going to. Thermal Modification...
Rocky Mountain Commercial Heat Treat for Sale
For sale is a small commercial heat treater in the Rocky Mountain, USA region of the USA. This is quite a small operation with sales of under $1 million USD but it is a classic example of how commercial heat treating can be very profitable. This is an absolutely perfect opportunity for an individual...