IHEA Annouces 2023-2024 Board of Directors
“The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) recently announced its 2023 – 24 Board of Directors and Executive Officers. Taking over as President is Brian Kelly of Honeywell Thermal Solutions; Vice-President is Jeff Rafter of Selas Heat Technology Co. LLC.; and Treasurer is Gary Berwick of...
Commercial Heat Treater Orders Batch IQ Furnace
Commercial heat treater Metex Heat Treating in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada has consistently made the annual list of the 50 Largest Commercial Heat Treaters in North America as ranked by "The Monty Heat Treat News"-find out how they compare...
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]
Where Are They Now? Mark DeBruin
Mark has spent most of his life in the US heat treating industry, most recently as Techincal Manager with Thermal Process Holdings. Recently he made a substantial career change and entered the world of 3D printing-this is his story; “Mark DeBruin, who was previously with Thermal Process Holdings and...
Heat Treating Gears: Comparing Carburizing, Ion Nitriding & Gas Nitriding Authored by Dr. Edward Rolinski, Advanced Heat Treat Corp
Gear failures have been a subject of many engineering articles, also addressing thermochemical methods used for improving performance and longevity [1-11]. Gear failure can be very complex. Many gears fail from bending fatigue as a result of cyclic bending stress at the tooth-root fillet and this...
Top 50 Commercial Heat Treater Accepts Delivery of Vacuum Furnace
March 9th of this year Gord Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” toured the new Solar Atmospheres facility in Chesterfield, Michigan, USA-the details of that visit can be found below. We can now say that the first vacuum furnace has arrived as you can see in this photo. These are the details...
Which Has a Lower Carbon Footprint-Mesh Belt or Cast Link Furnace?
Conveyor Hardening – Mesh Belt versus Cast Link Design: Reducing Carbon Footprint and Costs by: P. Kleinbrod, Aichelin GesmH Conveyor belt furnaces are a proven technology for quenching and tempering fasteners (screws, bolts and nuts). The parts are fed as bulk material and transported on metal...
PWR Advanced Cooling Adding More Heat Treat Capacity
In August of 2022 “The Monty Heat Treat News” had a news item about an Australian based company by the name of PWR Advanced Cooling obtaining their Nadcap accreditation and at the same time adding more heat treat capacity at their facility in Australia and also in the US. This press release from the...
Phoenix Heat Treat Adds a Further Batch IQ Furnace
In November of 2022 Dale and Gord Montgomery had the priviledge of visiting commercial heat treater Phoenix Heat Treat in Phoenix, Arizona, USA-our summary can be found below. Today we are able to give you an update about the company adding more furnace capacity. As we speak the company is taking...
Monday Morning Briefing
We are going to start this weeks "Monday Morning Briefing" with people news starting with John Carroll. For almost 6 years John was Plant Manager at commercial heat treater Metals Technology Corp., in Carol Stream Illinois before he recently parted ways with the company. It appears that he has left...
Commercial Heat Treat Shops For Sale
The sale of Applied Process to Aalberts Industries earlier this week demonstrated yet again that there is a strong demand in the market for commercial heat treat companies-although this is no surprise to anybody in the business. That being said we are aware of 3 others currently on the market. One...
Largest North American Commercial Heat Treaters
Earlier this week we had this very interesting news item; “It would appear that Netherlands based conglomerate Aalberts N.V. has acquired commercial heat treater Applied Process, one of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America. Aalberts, through their “Hauck” division is the second...
Complete Metallurgical Lab Available
We have come across a complete metallurgical lab which is available for sale. Located in the USA this is part of a captive heat treating operation which closed down recently. Included in the offering are a New Age Model Identron an ATM Brilliant 250 Precision Saw. An ATM Opal - 460 Mounting Press, a...
Wall Colmonoy Announces Fall Brazing School October 22-24, 2019
“Preserving the tradition originated by the late Robert Peaslee, a brazing pioneer who invented the first nickel-based brazing filler metal, Wall Colmonoy offers a fall session of Modern Furnace Brazing School on October 22-24, 2019 at Wall Colmonoy’s Aerobraze Brazing Engineering Center in...
Troubleshooting Generated Atmospheres for Heat-treatment
AtmospheresThe question is often asked, “What is an atmosphere?” A simple description of an atmosphere is a gas that can be introduced into a thermal process furnace with the objective of providing:A surface protection environmentA controlled oxidation environmentThe introduction of elements for...