Ultra Large Gear Carburizing-“The Heat Treat Podcast”
“The Monty Heat Treat News” is absolutely ecstatic to present to you today the latest “Heat Treat Podcast” in which are handsome host Mr. Carlos Torres speaks with Mr. Mark Podob about carburizing of ultra large gears. Mark is President of Metlab Heat Treat of Wyndmoor, PA, USA a heat treat which...
Captive Heat Treater Dynametal Technologies Closes-Furnaces Being Auctioned
August 1st, 2022 Dynametal Technologies of Brownsville, TN, USA filed for Chapter 11 Protection with liabilities equal to or greater than assets. Dynametal was a producer of powdered metal components and as such had a reasonably large heat treat/sintering department which was fairly typical of 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]
Solar Atmospheres of Michigan’s Future Home
Solar Atmospheres of Michigan, formerly Vac-Met, has recently purchased 18,000 square feet of plant space on four plus acres in Chesterfield Michigan. The new building is 20 miles Northeast of the two existing Vac-Met facilities which are currently located in Warren and Fraser Michigan. Bob Hill,...
Partnership With Oregon Induction Leads to New Testing Lab
We have this interesting article about a relatively new testing lab in the US Northeast which started as a partnership with one of the larger commercial heat treaters in the Region-Oregon Induction. “It all started in early 2018, when a “rush” sample on its way to an external laboratory got lost in...
Jarod Hammar, VP, Thermal Process Holdings-Where Are They Now?
In 2022 "The Monty Heat Treat News" ranked "Thermal Process Holdings" as the 8th largest commercial heat treater in North America, this ranking can be found at https://themonty.com/project/the-monty-heat-treat-news-50-largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treats-2022/ For at least part of this...
Salto’s Business Heats Up
We recently ran across an article published in Canadian Fabricating & Welding about a commercial heat treat start up which “The Monty Heat Treat News” is very familiar with-Salto Heat Treating. Read the story about how this shop started up in the midst of the recent pandemic. You wouldn’t think...
Electric Vehicle Manufacturer Invests in LPC System
"A two-chamber CaseMaster EvolutionR furnace from SECO/VACUUM will be used in the EV maker's R&D lab to low-pressure carburize (LPC) and oil quench prototype gears. Currently, the electric vehicle manufacturer sends their prototype gears out to local commercial heat treatment shops, and there...
Mark Podob, Metlab-“The Heat Treat Podcast”
A future “Heat Treat Podcast” will feature Mr. Mark Podob, Owner of commercial heat treater “Metlab” in Wyndmoor, PA, USA. We are especially excited about this podcast as “Metlab” occupies a very unique position in the North American Heat Treatment industry in that it is believed to have the largest...
Pankl Racing Systems, ALD System
Engine components manufacturer Pankl Racing Systems is justifiably very proud of the heat treating department at their location in Kapfenberg, Austria the centrepiece of which is this fairly new ALD vacuum carburizing system. Lets see what the company has to say about it;"Pankl Racing Systems has...
Boeing 737 Heat Treating Issues?
According to this news report from CCN Business their might be an issue with some parts on the Boeing 737 Max not being heat treated; “Boeing on Sunday said some of its 737 planes, including many 737 Max aircraft, may have faulty parts on their wings. It's the latest problem Boeing faces as it tries...
Hole Saw Distortion Problems by David Pye
From world famous heat treat consultant David Pye we have this article about distortion in Hole Saws;We were invited to consult for a manufacturer of hole drill saws to review the current problem of massive distortion and resulting scrap.The state of production due to distortion of the hole cutter ...
Monday Morning Briefing
We are going to start off in Indiana, USA. It comes from Ben Crawford who has made a real name for himself in the North American heat treating industry, most recently as CEO of Contour Hardening. It’s a rather unusual press release in that we don’t see any obvious connection with the heat treating...
SISTEMAS AUTOMOTRICES DE Mexico/New Pusher Line
Back in February of this year we told you the story of auto parts supplier SISTEMAS AUTOMOTRICES DE Mexico installing a brand new pusher furnace line. Well the story is almost finished as the line is now ready for final acceptance and run off as you can see in the one photo below. To really complete...
Epiroc To Build Captive Heat Treat Department
It is seldom that we run across heat treat news items from Sweden but this makes the second within a week. Since we could only find one “Epiroc”photo to go with this item (showing one of their products) we widened our search to find another photo from the Swedish heat treating industry and seized...