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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...
Ipsen USA Promotes Dan Binz to Operations Manager
Furnace builder Ipsen who we are sure needs no introduction has promoted a very experienced employee to the position of Operations Manager at their Rockford, IL, USA facility. Dan Binz has served in a variety of positions at the company and just recently was promoted to the post of Operations...
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]
Vacuum Furnace Builder Appoints New COO
Centorr Vacuum Industries, a very specialized builder of new vacuum furnaces has just promoted a long time employee to the position of Chief Operating Officer. “Centorr Vacuum Industries, headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, has promoted Randy Fellbaum to the position of Chief Operating...
Is Heat Treating one of the Most Physical Jobs in America?
For what it is worth a recent survey came up with the 50 most physical jobs in America, the results of which can be found at 50 most physical jobs in America | Entertainment News | wfmz.com. For what it is worth the individuals who put together this ranking claim it was based upon information...
Vacuum Furnace Builder Makes Management Changes
Headquartered in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, Vac Aero International Inc., is an international supplier of vacuum furnaces, heat treat, and specialized coating services with plants in both Ontario and Québec. The 64 year old company is one of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America (as...
Molybdenum Pricing Increasing
From Wikepdia we have this background on Molybdenum (Moly); “Molybdenum is a silvery metal with the sixth-highest melting point of any element, it can withstand extremely high temperatures and is highly resistant to corrosion. Molybdenum is mainly used as an alloying agent in stainless steel, and...
Nutec Group Announces Change of CEO
We are pleased to announce that a good friend of “The Monty Heat Treat News” has been appointed as the new CEO of Nutec Group. While Nutec has a number of different divisions we know them because of their Nutec Bickley division in Mexico which ranks as one of the largest furnace builders in the...
Industry Veteran Pete Kerbel Returns to Ipsen Family in New Role
Want to know more about Pete Kerbel of Ipsen? “The Monty Heat Treat News” interviewed Pete a couple of years back, an interview which can be found at Pete Kerbel, Vice President of Sales, Ipsen-The Video Interview | The Monty “Cherry Valley, ILLINOIS (February 1, 2023) – Ipsen USA is excited to...
Texas chiller manufacturer places order with SECO/WARWICK to commission large Active Only® CAB Line
“The largest indexing CAB furnace in North America is being relocated to Cold Shot Chillers in Houston TX to conduct in-house furnace brazing of the company’s heat exchangers. US department of SECO/WARWICK Group has been selected to relocate a very large CAB line for a customer who purchased it...
Mr. Slawomir Wozniak, President CEO of SECO/WARWICK Interview
We are very pleased to be able to offer you an interview with Mr. Slawomir Wozniak who very recently became President & CEO of furnace creator SECO/WARWICK. His photo and interview can be found on both our home page https://themonty.com/ and on our interview...
Woodward Inc. Upgrades Furnace Controls to UPC
“Oak Creek, WI, USA – August 12, 2019 – United Process Controls, (UPC) recently upgraded the vacuum furnace controls and automation platform for Woodward Inc., a US provider of fuel and control systems for aircraft engines. The new generation controls provide streamlined reporting for NADCAP...
Nitriding Of Gears – By David Pye
IntroductionGears have nitrided for many years, yet the subject of nitriding of gears is still very controversial, and continues to be so. The process of nitriding is in reality, process technology. Meaning that it is becoming very a favored thermal process technique due to the low process...
Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats August 2019
With the recent acquisition of Applied Process by Aalberts Industries of the Netherlands it became necessary to update our list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America. While were at it we took the opportunity to add one new entry to our list and also make a couple of other changes....
Are Alloy Prices Going Up?
As we all know the main factor when it comes to alloy costs is nickel, which means when nickel goes up the cost of baskets, base trays, radiant tubes and everything else goes up. While it hasn’t gone through the roof you can see in this graph that nickel is edging up which means alloys costs will be...