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...
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]
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...
Are Salaries in the HT Industry Increasing-Ask the Heat Treat Recruiter
Are salaries in the heat treatment industry in North America increasing? Common perception (or misconception) says that the answer to this question is a resounding yes! However we posed the question to our resident expert and regular contributor Mr. Josh Hale of heat treatment recruiting firm...
USA West Coast Heat Treater Acquired By Trive Capital
“KAL Capital Advises Kittyhawk, Inc.’s Acquisition by Trive Capital” Trive Capital (“Trive”), the Dallas-based private equity firm, is excited to announce its recent investment into Kittyhawk, Inc. (“Kittyhawk” or the “Company”), a leading provider of Hot Isostatic Pressing (“HIP”) services for a...
High Efficiency Burners For Galvanizing Plant
High-Efficiency and ultra-low-emission burner technology made by WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH will heat thyssenkrupp’s newest hot-dip galvanizing plant in Dortmund, Germany. In the presence of NRW’s prime minister Hendrik Wüst, thyssenkrupp Steel recently inaugurated its newest hot-dip galvanizing...
USA Oven Manufacturer Appoints General Manager
In the US Midwest Wisconsin Oven has promoted an employee of many years standing to the position of General Manager. “Wisconsin Oven Corp., appointed Jeff Kent to the position of general manager. Kent has been with Wisconsin Oven for more than 35 years. His experience covers all areas of...
Aalberts Acquires Applied Process
Now this is more interesting news to start off the week. 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 largest...
Monday Morning Briefing
We told you that after a one week break that we would have a million heat treat stories to tell you, this is the first installment. We start off by adding a few more details about the truly upsetting story we had last week-that of the passing of Brad Luce of Modern Heat Treat in Dallas, Texas, USA...
Bradley Luce, Modern Heat Treat, Texas
We are extremely upset to mention the passing of Bradley Luce, co-founder of Modern Heat Treat one of the largest heat treaters in Texas. We will provide more details about Brad and his company next week.Bradley Ferrel Luce, age 43, of Crowley, Texas passed away on Monday July 22, 2019. Visitation...
Gone Fishing July 22 to July 26th
While we have a million things to tell you about the worldwide captive and commercial heat treating industry we apologize but they will have to wait until Monday July 29th. We at "The Monty" are going fishing for a week-to be exact spending some time on an Island in Northern Canada but that is a...
Accurate Brazing, Greenville, SC, USA Expanding
“Accurate Brazing, a full-service vacuum brazing and heat treating company and subsidiary of Aalberts N.V., today announced plans to expand its Greenville County operations. The $13 million expansion is expected to create at least eight additional jobs. “Greenville County is a great place for us to...
European Furnace Builder Sells to Chinese Company
The big news of the month which we announced yesterday was the sale of the HTC Group, which includes four companies – IVA Schmetz (Germany), Mahler (Germany), Fours Industriels B.M.I. (France) and IVA Schmetz Industrial Furnaces (Shanghai) (China) – to a Chinese company by the name of Qizhi GmbH...