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...
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]
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...
Carburizing of Large Gears
Last week “The Monty Heat Treat News” featured our most recent “Heat Treat Podcast” which featured Mr. Mark Podob, President and owner of Metlab Heat Treat in Wyndmoor, PA, USA-the podcast can be found here Magazine & Podcasts | The Monty What made this podcast especially interesting was the fact...
Aerospace Company to Add Drop Bottom Oven
With great fanfare at least one competing heat treat news website announced that a Canadian Aerospace company by the name of Cyclone Manufacturing Inc., recently installed a “heat treat oven” funded courtesy of the Canadian government. “The Monty Heat Treat News” looked into this and we can add the...
Monday Morning Briefing
Regular readers of "The Monty" will be aware that over the course of the past year the name "Härtha Hardening Industries" has been popping up with increasing regularity in our news items which is really no surprise as we ranked the company as one of the larger commercial heat treaters in...
Sławomir Woźniak, SECO/WARWICK Groupa
Last week we met with the new CEO of furnace group SECO/WARWICK. As a follow up to that meeting we have this press release from the company which provides a few more details.It has been a month, since the Supervisory Board at the SECO/WARWICK Group unanimously decided to entrust the function of...
Kutz & Shulze Heat Treating, Hamburg, Germany
The correct name for this company is actually Kutz & Shulze Harterei und Zahnadtechnik however we have taken the liberty of translating into English. We mentioned KS last week in relation to a news item we did about a gear manufacturer and captive heat treater in Bremen, Germany by the name of...
Dowa Thermotech, Japan/Hightemp Furnaces, India/Meapforni, Italy
Dowa Thermotech. This past week we had the privilege of meeting the new President of Dowa Thermotech Co., Ltd., Mr. Ryuji Tsuji who took over from Mr. Toshiro Sumida a little while back. Dowa Thermotech is part of the Dowa Group of companies which is one of the largest conglomerates in Japan. The...
Where Are They Now-Eddie Wright
We're reaching a long way back with this news item. Back in 2003 Spicer Manufacturing (Dana Corp.) had a plant in Jonesboro, AR, USA which had a large captive heat treating department. When it was announced that the facility was closing we worked with the fellow in charge of the heat treating...
Jens Baumann & Edgar Falkowski
Back in March of this year we mentioned that Jens Baumann & Edgar Falkowski in Germany had parted ways with controls company UPC (the UPC ad can be found on the right side of this page). We lost touch with them, however we learned that they both very recently started with a company by the name...