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...
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 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...
Philadelphia Mint Awards Service Contract to SECO/WARWICK
"National Mints are institutions of high trust and high expectations not only of the product (furnaces) only but also of a complete service. That's why the Philadelphia Mint asked for furnace upgrades from SECO/WARWICK, the partner with proven experience and cooperation with national mints. The...
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at AFC-Holcroft’s Reopening
"Following an extensive, nearly yearlong full facility remodel, AFCHolcroft held a formal Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony at their World Headquarters building in Wixom, Michigan. In addition to the celebration by the company’s employees, representatives of Berndorf AG were on hand, as were CEO Christian...
Laser Heat Treating of Automotive Dies
Laser heat treating is an unknown technology to most individuals in the heat treating industry. In this article Aravind Jonnalagadda CTO and Co-Founder of Synergy Additive Manufacturing LLC tells us how the technology is applied to automotive dies for electric vehicles. Aravind Jonnalagadda (AJ),...
Abbott Furnace Partners With Eric & Jason Jossart
Several months ago "The Monty Heat Treat News" speculated on the future plans of Eric & Jason Jossart of "Atmosphere Engineering" fame. Subsequent to that we posted that the two brothers had formed a new organization "Obsidian Technical Group". It would appear according to this press release...
Alloy Theft
Even after over 20 years of publishing “The Monty” we are still surprised at what catches peoples attention and what doesn’t. For instance last week we had a rather brief news item about an alloy theft from an ArcelorMittal facility in Indiana (clarification; by alloy we mean any high nickel content...
Charles Davenport Joins Bodycote ADE
For over 35 years Charles has worked in the heat treating industry with aerospace companies such as Honeywell in Greer, SC, USA and Goodrich Aerospace in Hodges, NC. Well Charles has just become the Quality Engineer at Bodycote, ADE in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. The Fountain Inn location was...
Dowa Thermotech, North Carolina
Japanese furnace manufacturer and commercial heat treater Dowa has been in the news recently, mainly because of some issues at their commercial heat treating facility in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA although that is a story which has already been told. Today we look at their newest location which is in...
Michael Mathews, UTC Aerospace, UK
Now here is an interesting twist. Michal Mathews worked as a field service engineer for Vacuum Furnace Engineering Ltd., in West Midlands, UK for a couple of years. He enjoyed the vacuum furnace industry so much that he just recently became a Furnace Engineer at UTC Aerospace Systems Telford,...
Heat Treatment Chile
Recently we at "The Monty" had the chance to visit Chile, largely for pleasure but also partly for business. Based upon that visit we have this brief summary about the captive and commercial heat treatment industry in that country-and it will be brief based upon the amount of heat treating;There are...
April Fools Day/Thermal Process Holdings
As part of our Monday Morning Briefing we had a note about commercial heat treater Thermal Process Holdings (John Hubbard's group) being poised to expand to almost $200 million USD in annual sales in the very near future.While we hope that this does prove to be true at some point in time this is not...