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...
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]
In House Transmission Components Heat Treating Mexico
From time to time "The Monty Heat Treat News" reaches back in our photo archives to review fascinating heat treats we have visited over the years. One that would fit the bill is a very large supplier of transmission components by the name of Tremec in Mexico. Their Pedro Escobedo location in Mexico...
Captive Heat Treat Installs New Endothermic Generator
Nordic Traction Finland, a manufacturer of traction chains and tracks for forestry and agricultural machinery, recently upgraded their heat treatment operations by installing a new EndoFlex™ S endothermic gas generator system. Nordic Traction relies on endogas to carburize its traction chains. The...
Mr. Dave Farmery, President of Vac Aero-The Interview
“The Monty Heat Teat News” is very pleased to offer this interview with Mr. Dave Farmery, President of vacuum furnace builder and commercial heat treater Vac Aero. Dave’s background includes almost 30 years in the aerospace industry and in this interview he brings up some very interesting points...
Aalberts Surface Technologies Forms New HIP/Braze/Heat Treatment Business Unit in US
“The Monty Heat Treat News” is pleased to say that next week we will be visiting the Aalberts Surface Technologies facility in Greenville, SC and doing an in depth profile of the company. "Aalberts surface technologies - specialized heat treatment US and Aalberts surface technologies - accurate...
The Monty Heat Treat News February 2023 Edition
The link below will take you to the February 2023 edition of “The Monty Heat Treat News”-for over 25 years the largest source of heat treatment news and trends in the world. The Monty Heat Treat News February 2023 Edition In this exciting 80 plus page edition you will the absolute latest news from...
MTI Educational Foundation Scholarship Application Process NOW OPEN
Every industry is hungry for the next generation of workers. The Metal Treating Institute launched its new career recruitment website in 2022, HeatTreatCareers.com. It is a central digital resource for anyone looking for a career can see what heat treating is, the impact of heat treating and why...
25 Most Influential People In The North American Heat Treating Industry
Yesterday we had a news item entitled “25 Most Influential People in The North American Heat Treating Industry – Looking Back”. It would appear that we were not as clear on this list as we should have been and this caused some real confusion. The list we posted yesterday was one that we put together...
Vacuum Process Technology (Number 2); An over view of the Technology presented by David Pye of Pye Metallurgical International Consulting
Trends and developments in vacuum furnace technologyAn overview of the technologyNew technologies seem to center around a paradox; on the one hand they are welcomed as better methods to attain much improved and better results, and an enhanced quality of life. Yet on the other hand some industries...
25 Most Influential People In The North American Heat Treating Industry – Looking Back
Between the years 1999 and 2011 “The Monty” several times put together a list of the 25 most influential people in the North American Heat Treating Industry-both captive and commercial heat treatment we will add. Somehow or other we got out of the habit and had forgotten about this until the other...
The Monty Heat Treat News
Are you exhibiting at the “HartereiKongress 2019” in Cologne, Germany this fall? “HartereiKongress 2019” being held October 22nd to the 24th in Cologne is the premier heat treating event in Germany for 2019 and your customers need to know that you will be in attendance. “The Monty Heat Treat News” can help get that message out with a very...
Monday Morning Briefing
While we have absolutely no hard data to back this up our impression has always been that the majority of fires in heat treat departments start in furnace ducting-such was the case at captive heat treater Acument Global in Michigan, USA this past week; “First responders were sent to a fire at...
Trends and Developments In Vacuum Furnace Technology Presented By David Pye
Trends and developments in vacuum furnace technologyFor many years vacuum processing technology was considered to be the ‘Cinderella’ of metallurgical processing technology, having had its humble beginnings in the aerospace industry, and initially used for stress relieving, annealing and normalizing...