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...
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]
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...
Busch Outlines Ambitions Plans for the Future | The Monty
"The Monty Heat Treat News" was recently invited to the Mississauga, Canada facility of Busch Vacuum Solutions (2nd largest of three sites in Canada). Busch Group (based in Germany) is one of the world’s largest suppliers of industrial vacuum solutions (pumps, systems, service) and during our visit,...
Furnace Builder Achieves Record Sales and Profit
“2022 was a difficult year for global geopolitics and the economy. Despite this, SECO/WARWICK, the first choice among manufacturers of metal heat treatment and vacuum metallurgy furnaces, can talk about an excellent year. The great results of the Group were influenced by several factors: the growth...
Aerospace Firm Installing Heat Treatment Department
Going way back to 2019 aerospace giant Pratt & Whitney announced a new facility in the Ashville, NC, USA area. The ribbon cutting ceremony for the new facility was held November 16th, you can read the details here further down. As part of this investment oven and furnace builder L&L Special...
Solar Atmospheres Successfully Hardens Massive H13 Extrusion Dies
Hermitage PA, January 30, 2023 – Solar Atmospheres of Western PA successfully vacuum heat treated two massive H13 extrusion dies at their Hermitage PA facility. Their newest high performing Solar Manufacturing 10-Bar 600 Horsepower high pressure gas quench vacuum furnace was able to fully harden two...
Lindberg/MPH Ships Four Chamber Stamping Furnace
"Lindberg/MPH announced the shipment of an Electrically Heated Four Chamber Hot Stamping Furnace to the Gestamp Research and Development facility located in Auburn Hills, MI. Gestamp is an international corporation that designs, develops, and manufactures metal automotive components. This hot...
Centorr Vacuum Ships Sintering Furnace
"Centorr Vacuum Industries, headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, has shipped its new Sintervac AM furnace for the debinding and sintering of additively manufactured parts to a leading company in the Additive Manufacturing market. The company is an established supplier of sfurnaces to the...
Bluewater Thermal, Kitchener, Canada
Bluewater Thermal based in SC has consistently made our list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America for many years nowhttps://themonty.com/largest-commercial-heat-treats/ The company has 12 locations in North America including 1 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada which was owned by the...
Monday Morning Briefing
We are going to start this weeks "Monday Morning Briefing" with people news starting with John Carroll. For almost 6 years John was Plant Manager at commercial heat treater Metals Technology Corp., in Carol Stream Illinois before he recently parted ways with the company. It appears that he has left...
Commercial Heat Treat Shops For Sale
The sale of Applied Process to Aalberts Industries earlier this week demonstrated yet again that there is a strong demand in the market for commercial heat treat companies-although this is no surprise to anybody in the business. That being said we are aware of 3 others currently on the market. One...
Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters
Earlier this week we had this very interesting news item; “It would appear that Netherlands based conglomerate Aalberts N.V. has acquired commercial heat treater Applied Process, one of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America. Aalberts, through their “Hauck” division is the second...