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...
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]
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...
USA West Coast Heat Treater Sold
"The Monty Heat Treat News" is looking forward to a formal press release about a commercial heat treater on the US West Coast being sold shortly before Christmas of 2022. The story tells us that this profitable, state of the art 2 location shop has entered the new year with new ownership. We expect...
Shopping Cart Manufacturer Heat Treats In House
“L&L Special Furnace Co. has shipped a dual-chamber heat-treating and tempering furnace to a leading global manufacturer of shopping carts and display cases located in the southeastern U.S. The equipment will play a supportive role in keeping key production equipment on-line along with thermal...
FPM Appoints General Manager
FPM has just promoted a long standing employee to the position of GeneralManager. Ryan Schwanke has been with the company for 30 years and wasappointed GM just a few weeks ago-congratulations. Commercial heat treater FPM in the US Midwest is ranked as one of thelargest commercial heat treaters in...
Where Are They Now-Abdul Admani
The North American heat treatment industry is losing a good man at the end of this month- well we should rephrase that and say that we are losing some of the services of one of the most experienced quality individuals that we have run across in the industry. Mr. Abdul Admani has spent 50 years in...
Moses Garcia Appointed Sales Director at ALD TT, Mexico
Commercial heat treater ALD Thermal Treatment, one of the largest commercial vacuum carburizing company’s in North America has just promoted Moses Garcia to the position of Sales Director for Mexico – Bajio Area. Hector Ibarra, Vice President Business Development North America said this about the...
South Tek Systems Expands
This press release tells us how South Tek, a supplier of nitrogen generating systems is expanding. To this press release we have to add our personal observation which is that we have always been a little puzzled as to why nitrogen generating systems are not more common in the heat treating industry...
Marmara Heat treatment Turkey Installs New Endo Generator
Commercial heat treater Marmara in Turkey is pretty pleased that they just added a new endothermic generator-so pleased that they sent us this photo. We know little about this company except that the generator appears to be made by Powermax in Taiwan and that it will be supplying several furnaces in...
Chris Dennis, H & S Heat Treating Retires
Many years ago Phil Dennis bought a tiny commercial heat treat in Port Robinson, Canada (very near Niagara Falls). Phil turned it into a $10 million per year operation and in the process brought in many of his family including sons Colin and Chris, daughter Debbie and son in law Dave Orosz. Along...
MB Aerospace Technologies (Poland)
We see that aerospace company MB Aerospace Technologies in Poland has achieved Nadcap accreditation for coatings at their Kalisz facility. Coating, while closely associated with heat treating is not a field that we spend much time on, however this company has a fairly large in house vacuum...
Hardness testing And Surface Preparation By David Pye
IntroductionThe result of hardness testing is what will determine the success of the heat treatment procedure and the materials response to that heat treatment. The results of a hardness test can indicate to us:If the heat treatment was successfulGive a possible indication as to the cause of a...