Fascinating Heat Treats-Captive Heat Treater AGCO/FENDT
From time to time we search through our archived pictures of heat treat facilities around the world and present some of the more memorable ones. Today we look at one of the more memorable ones we have come across tractor builder AGCO/FENDT in Marktoberdorf, Germany. AGCO/FENDT is memorable for the...
Bodycote Greenville, SC, USA Continues With Investment
Going back to late 2021 heat treating giant Bodycote announced that they were investing in Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) capability at their facility in Greenville, SC, USA. This is the original press release; "November 2021; Bodycote increases Hot Isostatic Pressing capacity in the USA; Bodycote,...
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]
Aluminum Mill Orders 4 More Furnaces From SECO/WARWICK
"ASSAN ALÜMINYUM, one of the leading flat rolled aluminum manufacturers in the world, has ordered 4 additional aluminum coil annealing furnaces, which are equipped with an even more efficient VortexR 2.0 system. The company already owns 17 furnaces with SECO/WARWICK Vortex systems. VortexR is a...
Ipsen Installs TurboTreater Vacuum Furnace at Taiwan Hodaka Technology
"Ipsen recently completed the installation of a TurboTreater vacuum furnace for a customer in Southeast Asia. Established in 2002, Taiwan Hodaka Technology Co., Ltd. is an aluminum extrusion supplier, specializing in high-end aerospace aluminum alloys. They also produce products used in the sporting...
Busch Vacuum Partners With SSi For Heat Treat Seminar
In an industry first, vacuum pump supplier Busch Vacuum has partnered with controls company SSi of Cincinatti, Ohio to provide a 1 day heat treatment seminar. The event will take place May 2, 2023 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada at Busch's brand new, state of the art service center and training...
Fastener Manufacturer Installs New Exothermic Generator
“UPC-Marathon, a Nitrex company, recently installed an ExoFlex™ gas generator for Jomarca, a long-time customer and one of the biggest manufacturers of fasteners, bolts, nuts, and fixing elements in Brazil. The generator will supply exothermic gas to a continuous wire annealing furnace, which is...
Martin’s Metal Service-A New Game in Town
You can certainly be forgiven if you have not run across the name Martin's Metal Service previously as this is a very new entry into the US commercial heat treating market (kind of)-lets explain. For many years there has been a commercial heat treater in Springfield, Ohio by the name of Certified...
Turkish Heat Treater Re Certified for NADCAP
"The Monty Heat Treat News" has long followed commercial heat treater Önerler Heat Treatment Ltd., in Bursa, Turkey as one of the largest heat treaters in the entire region. Last year we announced that they had achieved Nadcap Acredidation, the company is very pleased to announce that this has just...
25 Most Influential People In The North American Heat Treating Industry – Looking Back
Between the years 1999 and 2011 “The Monty” several times put together a list of the 25 most influential people in the North American Heat Treating Industry-both captive and commercial heat treatment we will add. Somehow or other we got out of the habit and had forgotten about this until the other...
The Monty Heat Treat News
Are you exhibiting at the “HartereiKongress 2019” in Cologne, Germany this fall? “HartereiKongress 2019” being held October 22nd to the 24th in Cologne is the premier heat treating event in Germany for 2019 and your customers need to know that you will be in attendance. “The Monty Heat Treat News” can help get that message out with a very...
Monday Morning Briefing
While we have absolutely no hard data to back this up our impression has always been that the majority of fires in heat treat departments start in furnace ducting-such was the case at captive heat treater Acument Global in Michigan, USA this past week; “First responders were sent to a fire at...
Trends and Developments In Vacuum Furnace Technology Presented By David Pye
Trends and developments in vacuum furnace technologyFor many years vacuum processing technology was considered to be the ‘Cinderella’ of metallurgical processing technology, having had its humble beginnings in the aerospace industry, and initially used for stress relieving, annealing and normalizing...
Heat Treat Exhibition Scam
Have you received this bogus e-mail yet? Every year like clockwork attendees to the various North American heat treat exhibitions are deluged with e-mails similar to the one below advertising a contact list of all the attendees to the upcoming show. A friend of ours actually paid their money for the...
Jones Metal Products, West Lafayette, Ohio, USA-New Owner
From West Lafayette, Ohio, USA we have this news item about captive/commercial heat treater Jones Metal Products having a new owner. As it happens we are quite familiar with this company and in 2018 we had a note about the company entitled; “Jones Metal Products-Do Captives Make Good Commercial Heat...