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...
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]
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...
CO2 Emissions and the Heat Treatment Industry
CO2 Emissions are a hot topic in Europe and becoming more so in North America which has lead to a number of companies in the industry taking a very close look at this subject. Obviously the largest contributing factor to CO2 emissions in the heat treatment industry is the energy required to heat the...
Burloak Technologies Receives ISO 17025 Accreditation
Burloak Technologies, an Additive Manufacturing firm who recently installed an in-house heat treating department has now received ISO 17025 accreditation for it's material Testing Lab. This means the company now has both Nadcap and ISO 17025, a very unusual combination. The one photo below shows the...
Aerospace Company Adds Vacuum Furnace to Improve Deliveries
"AERO SPACE POWER, a modern European MRO facility with experience in the renovation and energy industry has ordered a custom-made VectorR vacuum furnace from SECO/WARWICK. The solution will be utilized for repair solutions for both complex aircraft engines and gas turbines for the energy industry....
Rock Drill Manufacturer Inaugurates Heat Treatment Plant
Back in 2019 Swedish rock drill manufacturer EPIROC announced plans to invest in a new heat treatment plant; “Epiroc has held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new heat treatment plant for rock drills at one of its global manufacturing hubs in Örebro, Sweden.” Just yesterday the firm issued a press...
Monday Morning Briefing
For today August 18, 2019 we are going to start out with an updated news item from Germany. Bach in March of this year we mentioned that Jens Baumann & Edgar Falkowski in Germany had parted ways with controls company UPC (the UPC ad can be found on the right side of this page). As it turns out...
Distortion and its possible causes
Distortion and its possible causesThe heat treatment of steel is necessary in order to manipulate the mechanical strength and metallurgy of the steel the manipulation of physical characteristics of the steel is necessary for prior machining and for the successful performance of the finished machined...
Milacron LLC Updates Furnace Controls
This is the second time we have mentioned captive heat treater Milacron LLC., in Ohio in our news section. The first was back in 2012 when the company replaced their Nitrogen/Methanol system with a new Endothermic generator. "Super Systems, Inc. recently completed major upgrades to the heat treating...
Isabelle Parkes August 15/2019
Please excuse our indulgence but we have to mention that Isabelle Parkes was born at 2:15 AM this morning to Caitlin (Montgomery) Parkes and Andrew Parkes. Caitlin is the daughter of Dale and Gord Montgomery and brother of Jordan Montgomery. Long time readers of “The Monty” will recall that Caitlin...
Kamax, Leon, Mexico Opens For Business
Earlier this year we mentioned how Kamax a German manufacturer of high strength fasteners for the automotive industry was setting up their first facility in Latin America-Leon, Mexico to be exact. Well just last week the facility opened for business (a local press release is below). As always this...
Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters-Back to the Drawing Board
Very recently we updated our list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America however based upon readers suggestions it is back to the drawing board. While we received several suggestions the most obvious one we missed is Thermal Process Holdings about whom we have this to say;...