North American Snow Storm
Most of our readers will be well aware that many parts of the USA and Canada have recently been hit by a major snowstorm. This photo was taken just in front of the offices of "The Monty Heat Treat News" in Ontario, Canada on December 28th, 2022. To give you some perspective this area has received...
Paulo and the Path to 80 Years in Business
Paulo, the largest privately held commercial heat treating company in North America recenty posted a history of the company News Archive - Paulo While we have heard it before it always makes for intersting reading as you can see below. To go with this story we would suggest reading an interview “The...
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]
German Heat Treater Receives Pit Nitriding Furnace
Commercial heat treater Siegener Werkzeugfabrik (SWF) https://www.swf-siegen.de/ of Germany has just accepted delivery of a pit nitriding furnace with working dimensions of 69” diameter X 110” deep. This furnace, which was the last one shipped by furnace builder Rohde in Hanau, Germany in 2022 will...
Merry Christmas
“The Monty Heat Treat News” wishes everybody, friends, customers, competitors and acquaintances a very Merry Christmas. Regular news updates will resume Tuesday December 27th. Did you like this article? Click here to subscribe to The Monty. View our recent magazines and podcasts by clicking the...
USA Stamping Firm Poised to Receive Salt Recovery System
The recent substantial increase in the price of quenching salts has prompted companies around the world to look at ways to reduce this cost. A solution which has been around for a number of years, especially in Europe are systems which will recover virtually all of the salt which accumulates in...
Commercial Heat Treater “HÄRTHA GROUP” Sources Electrical Supply
From "HÄRTHA GROUP", one of the largest European commercial heat treaters as ranked by "The Monty Heat Treat News" https://themonty.com/project/largest-european-commercial-heat-treaters/ we have this press release. To go with it we include this photo of the firm's Alenhoven, Germany facility taken...
Aluminum Extrusion Company to Heat Treat In-House Rather Than Outsource
"Following years of dialogue with NITREX, the young Polish aluminum profiles manufacturer ADT Solutions has finally purchased a turnkey nitriding system. Cultivating customer relationships and securing good business takes time, but with perseverance and the advantage of quality products endorsed by...
Ipsen USA Appoints Atmosphere Sales Manager
"Sales professionals among themselves: Having already gained several years of experience in the mechanical and industrial engineering industry, Will Cheesman is now looking forward to new tasks at Ipsen, the market leader for industrial furnaces. With a degree in industrial engineering is from...
Caterpillar/Texas Heat Treating
Back on March 28, 2018 we had a news item about an auction of the remaining equipment at a Caterpillar facility in Waco, Texas. Subsequent to our original news item we mentioned that all of the AFC-Holcroft batch IQ furnaces had been purchased by a used equipment dealer. Well the used equipment...
Specialty Steel Treating Invests in New AFC-Holcroft Equipment As Part Of Multi-Year Program
“Commercial heat treater Specialty Steel Treating in Fraser, Michigan (USA) has invested in new AFC-Holcroft UBQ (Universal Batch Quench) furnace and a UBTN (Universal Batch Temper) annealing furnace as companion equipment, as part of a larger multi-year equipment standardization program intended to...
ALD Vacuum Technologies North America, Inc.
“AMG Advanced Technologies announces the realignment of the North American Equipment Sales Companies, ALD Vacuum Technologies and ALD Vacuum Systems Into the new entity: ALD Vacuum Technologies North America, Inc., headquartered in East Windsor, Connecticut effective January 1st 2019. David Esser,...
Shanghai Qizhi Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Betcha you have never heard of Shanghai Qizhi Information Technology Co., Ltd., based in Ningbo, China before-we certainly hadn’t. If you are curious about the company you can get all the details at http://www.qijing-m.com/En/INTRODUCTION.html which will tell you it is a large conglomerate which...
Where Are They Now-Thomas Lord
When you have worked for companies such as furnace manufacturer SECO/WARWICK in Meadville, PA and Modern Heat Treat in Erie, PA you learn your trade so it is no surprise that Thomas just recently became Sales Director for one of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America, ALD Thermal...
Solar Atmospheres South Carolina Facility Orders 12’ Vacuum Furnace
"Solar Atmospheres announces the order of a new 12’ long car-bottom vacuum furnace with advanced pumping system and rapid cooling capability for our Greenville, SC facility. This state-of-the-art 144” deep x 54” wide x 54” high horizontal vacuum furnace is capable of processing up to 50,000 lb...