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...
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]
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...
SBS PARTNERS WITH OBSIDIAN TECHNICAL GROUP
SBS Corporation is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Obsidian Technical Group for Sales and Technical Service across much of the eastern United States. The partnership will add value to SBS customers by providing additional onsite product support capability and turn-key installation...
German Furnace Builder Enters LPC Market
German Furnace Builder IVA Schmetz of Menden, Germany becomes the latest vacuum furnace builder to enter the vacuum carburizing (LPC) market with a product called "CARB PLUS" which utilizes acetylene as the carburizing gas. Their first system is completed, tested and accepted and will be going to a...
Thermprocess, Germany
Yes we did say that we had completed our coverage of the recent heat treat exhibition in Germany however we came across these final two photos. “Fluke Process Instruments. Fluke was demonstrating a really cool thermal imaging camera at the Thermprocess show. On the left side of this photo we...
Bruce Hynes, Services, Ovens & Baths
Yesterday we mentioned the passing of Bruce Hynes, founder of used furnace equipment company Furnaces, Ovens and Baths in Michigan. The obituary mentioned the rather unusual way that he entered the industry-from barber to used equipment dealer which is a new one on us. In spite of the fact that he...
Thermprocess, Dusseldorf, Germany
We have some final photos from the heat treat exhibition in Germany last week. No show is complete without temperature profiling company Phoenix TM. In this photo we see from the left; Bastian Sulinski, Michael Taake, Carola Konitzer and Dr. Steve Offley. Steve is holding a PTM 1220 datalogger....
Bruce Hynes, Furnaces Ovens and Baths
We regret to mention the passing of Mr. Bruce Hynes, founder of Furnaces, Ovens and Baths in Michigan, USA. Furnaces, Ovens and Baths has become one of the largest used equipment dealers in North America and we will have more to say about, Bruce, his background and his history in the industry...
Thermprocess 2019 Dusseldorf, Germany
The world's largest heat treat exhibition, Thermprocess being held in Dusseldorf, Germany is rapidly drawing to a close and as it does we present these photos from the exhibition with more to come over the course of the next week. The general consensus? That attendance is down and two heat treat...
Harterei Tandler, Bremen, Germany
Let's have a look at a company which largely does captive heat treating. Harterei Tandler GmbH & Co. KG., is a privately owned manufacturer of gears based in Bremen, Germany. The company produces gears for a wide variety of industries including the aerospace industry. It would be hard to...