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...
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 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...
Worldwide Heat Treat Appoints Business Development Manager
Commercial Heat Treater Worldwide Heat Treat in Houston, Texas, USA recently appointed Mr. Scott Licklider to the position of Business Development Manager. Scott brings with him a lifetime of heat treating experience having worked at companies such as FPM Heat Treat and Bodycote. Worldwide Heat...
Batch Austemper Line Installed in US
In 2022 furnace builder AFC-Holcroft of Wixom, MI announced that they had received an order from a manufacturer of mining and construction components in the US Midwest for a relatively unusual item, a batch austemper line. The salt quenching line is now installed as you can see in this photo. A very...
25 Most Influential People in The North American Heat Treating Industry
We owe our readers a bit of an apology on this-we had promised a completed list by Friday September 13th however that is not going to happen. What we do promise is that the list will be completed and posted next week. You have our apologies, sometimes things do not go as planned. [bsa_pro_ad_space...
Somebody’s In Trouble!
Quite understandably most people in the world don't ever consider the effects of poor (or in this case non existent) heat treating which is quite understandable. However as everybody in the industry knows bad heat treating can have catastrophic results. In this case Mack Truck recalled a few axles...
LIEBHERR-Aerospace, Toulouse France Adds Vacuum Brazing Furnaces
From vacuum furnace builder BMI in France we have this press release about two vacuum brazing furnaces the company recently installed at Liebherr Aerospace in Toulouse, France; "Two new BMI vacuum furnaces have been added to the brazing workshop of LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE TOULOUSE (France). They are big...
ALD SyncroTherm® System Shipped to China
German furnace builder ALD of Hanau started offering their SyncroTherm thermal processing system a few years back and this press release tells us how the company has shipped their first system to China. The SyncroTherm system offers some advantages over other furnace systems but the very high cost...
Heat Treatment Industry Interviews-Upcoming
We are rather proud of the fact that no other company in the world has interviewed more people in the heat treatment industry than “The Monty” https://themonty.com/interviews/ Over the past few months we have interviewed Mr. Brian Reid of Park Thermal, the new President & CEO of SECO/WARWICK,...
SSi Mexico Seminar
“SSi Mexico conducted a one-day technical in Monterrey, Mexico on 29 August 2019. The session was attended by fifty-one heat treatment professionals from the states of Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas. The attendees represented commercial and captive heat treatment operators and...