Aerospace Heat Treat Good, Automotive Heat Treat Not So Good
Commercial heat treater "Bodycote", the globe's largest commercial heat treater on Tuesday, released a report for the four months ending October 31, 2025. As a diversified, global heat treater their results mirror the entire heat-treating industry-it comes as no shock to us or indeed for most heat...
Ipsen Invests in Pyrometry Certification for Field Service Engineers
Ten Ipsen field service engineers are completing Pyrometry II training through the Performance Review Institute (PRI), a national organization that focuses on certification for processes that need to meet Nadcap and AMS standards. These engineers are on track to be fully certified by the end 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 Heat Treater Continues to Invest in New Equipment
(Editors Note; SWMT is ranked as one of the "52 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters 2025" according to "The Monty Heat Treat News") "Fort Worth, Texas — November 17, 2025 — Southwest Metal Treating Corp (SWMT), a leading provider of precision heat-treating services and an AS9100D / ISO...
Heat Treating Automotive Brake Rotors-“Paulo”
Back in 2009 furnace builder JL Becker, Co., (acquired by "Gasbarre" in 2011) working with commercial heat treater "Woodworth, Inc.", in Flint, Michigan, USA revolutionized the automotive brake rotor sector by offering FNC (ferritic nitrocarburizing) in large tip-up furnaces. The benefits of the...
USA Induction Heating Equipment Supplier Acquired
"Aluminium extrusion company Extrutec North America, has acquired Induction Professionals, leading to the formation of the new company Induction Professional Solutions (IPS). The acquisition will combine Extrutec’s energy efficient technology with Induction Professionals extensive experience to...
Heat Treatment of “Rockbreaker” Steel Tools
"Rockbreaker" is a trade name for a steel hydraulic hammer tool used in the construction, mining, quarrying and demolition industries to literally break rock and concrete. The name is owned by "Caldervale Group Ltd"., of Airdrie, Scotland who manufacturers and ships the tools around the world with...
Bodycote Opening New Facility in Fairfield, Ohio, USA-“Update”
August 19th of the year we had this news item about a new commercial heat treating facility in Fairfield, Ohio, USA "Bodycote Opening New Facility in Fairfield, Ohio, USA"-we now have this update about the location achieving Nadcap Accreditation (Editors Note: while vacuum carburizing is not...
Heat Treatment of Fasteners-“The Monty” Tours Heat Treat Department
60 Years ago "Clyde Fasteners" of East Kilbride, Scotland set out to produce fasteners for a variety of industries including oil & gas, defense, and heavy equipment. From day 1 in house heat treatment was considered a crucial part of the firm's success-the end result is that the company...
Mathew Clinite, Ipsen – The Monty Interview
We are very pleased to be speaking with Mr. Matt Clinite, Sales Director of furnace builder Ipsen-we start off with this background; Matt Clinite joined Ipsen in the summer of 2014 as a sales engineer, quickly moving into the Midwest Territory sales manager role in 2015. In 2019, he was promoted to...
USA Commercial Heat Treat for Sale
This long established USA commercial heat treater offers a variety of processes including but not limited to Atmosphere Heat Treating and Vacuum Heat Treatment. Serves a Wide variety of industries including aerospace and automotive Long history of profitability Current Management Team Willing to...
Aerospace Firm Adding Vacuum Furnace
"A new Chinese company producing aircraft production parts has ordered a horizontal SECO/WARWICK vacuum furnace. The device will be used to produce highly specialized cast parts used in the aviation industry. This partner ordered a horizontal Vector vacuum furnace with a graphite chamber and gas...
Why are so Many North American Commercial Heat Treaters Closing? CORRECTION
Yesterday we had a news item entitled "Why are so Many North American Commercial Heat Treaters Closing?" In the article we mentioned a number of different commercial heat treaters who have closed over the past year-one which we mentioned was Diamond Heat Treating in Rockford, IL. It turns out our...
New Vacuum Furnace Builder in North America?
Our understanding is that there is a new vacuum furnace builder in North America by the name of "High Vacuum Technologies LLC"-their website which can be accessed here provides virtually no details on the company "High Vacuum Technologies LLC" . However we believe that Mr. Suresh Jhawar, former...
Why are so Many North American Commercial Heat Treaters Closing?
If it seems like commercial heat treatment firms in North America have been dropping like flies over the past year you can certainly be forgiven for thinking so. Over the course of the past year "The Monty Heat Treat News" has mentioned at least 12 firms that have closed, with at least two more to...