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...
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]
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...
Captive Heat Treat Installs Nitrogen Generating System-Is This a Trend?
Fastener manufacturer and captive heat treater Atlas Copco recently installed an in house nitrogen generating system to replace their bulk liquid storage system at a UK location. A summary and the reasons behind this decision can be found below (at the risk of ruining the story cost savings were the...
ABBOTT FURNACE COMPANY ANNOUNCES US AND MEXICO CONTINUOUS FURNACE AND BRAZING SYMPOSIUMS
Abbott Furnace Company is pleased to announce it will be hosting two Continuous Furnace and Brazing Symposiums in May of this year. The first symposium will be held in Charleston, South Carolina, from May 10-12, 2023, at the Francis Marion Hotel. The second symposium will be held in Aguascalientes,...
Solar Atmospheres Adds All-Metal Hot Zone Furnace
Solar Atmospheres recently installed another unique, all- metal hot zone vacuum furnace at its 1969 Clearview Road facility in Souderton, PA. This is Solar’s third all-metal hot zone furnace installation for their climate- controlled room. The additional furnace increases Solar’s capacity for...
Sławomir Woźniak, SECO/WARWICK
There has been some speculation recently about the new CEO of furnace manufacturer SECO/WARWICK. We can now tell you that it is Mr. Sławomir Woźniak a longtime SECO employee. Sławomir has an electrical background and started his career with SECO 20 years ago as a sales engineer. Over the years he...
Thermprocess, Dusseldorf, Germany
We are now at the "Thermprocess" exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany which bills itself as the largest heat treat exhibition in the world. Held every four years at the same venue in Germany our first thought is that very unfortunately the event this year is being held amongst record breaking...
HARTHA Hardening Industries, Aldenhoven, Germany
What you are looking at in this photo is a brand new Schmetz vacuum furnace with a capacity of 2500 Kg and 10 bar quenching. We lie a little bit as it has been in operation for a few months now but close enough. Accompanying the furnace is Mr. Ralf Einenkel, Engineering Manager. This is just a...
HK 2019, Cologne, Germany
We are getting ahead of ourselves a bit mentioning the October 2019 Heat Treat Exhibition in Cologne, Germany while we are at the Thermprocess show in Germany but October is not that far away. From the organizers of the event we have these notes.75th HeatTreatmentCongress – Ticket shop launch; The...
SABO BOXTEL, Boxtel, Netherlands
SABO BOXTEL in the Netherlands (which is part of the HARTHA Hardening Industries Group) has quite a unique business model. Founded a number of years ago the company only recently became part of the HARTHA Hardening Industries Group-in 2016 if our memory serves us correctly. While it is a...