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...
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]
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...
European Auto Parts Supplier Installs Chamber Furnace Heat Treat Line
From Austrian Furnace Builder Aichelin we have this report of a new installation for the company at auto parts supplier "Hirschvogel Group". As a special bonus feature which compliments this press release our second news item for today is a summary about the firms heat treating capabilities. This...
Hirschvogel Automotive Group-In House Heat Treating
Our other news item today for "The Monty Heat Treat News" concerned a recent sealed quench furnace installation at auto parts supplier "Hirschvogel Automotive Group" in Denklingen, Germany. As it happens Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" toured this facility in 2018 and we have this...
Monday Morning Briefing
From commercial heat treater Accurate Steel Treating in Southgate, CA, USA we have this mention; “I'm very pleased to announce that Geoff Monti has joined Accurate Steel Treating (AST) as Director of Special Projects and Metallurgy. Geoff’s initial assignments will include developing and refining...
Alloy Theft
There can’t be a captive or commercial heat treater in North America who has not at some point been the victim of “alloy theft”. By alloy theft we mean a few base trays, baskets or muffles disappearing out the back door and turning up at the local scrap yard. Probably because the price of alloy has...
ALD Vacuum Technologies Changes
Last week we mentioned how ALD Vacuum Technologies (manufacturers of vacuum and vacuum carburizing systems) was going through some major changes. The changes involved their divisions in the USA, Germany and India. In the USA we have been lead to believe that the President of the division in Michigan...
Alu Menziken Extrusion AG, New Nitrex System
“The Swiss corporation Alu Menziken Extrusion AG, a manufacturer of aluminum profiles and complex extrusion press products, chose a Nitrex nitrocarburizing system for its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility on a greenfield site in northwestern Romania. Nitrex Metal delivered and installed a...
Caterpillar, Inc., Waco, Texas, USA
We can now provide an update on this news item from yesterday. The AFC-Holcroft UBQ furnaces have indeed already been purchased and removed from the auction. We understand they were bought by a used equipment dealer so they will be popping up on the used market in the near future we are sure.“Back...
Caterpillar, Inc., Waco, Texas, USA
Back in February of 2018 Caterpillar announced that they would be closing their Work Tools facility in Waco, Texas-a facility which made buckets, couplers, and hammers. The plant did indeed close with production moved to a Caterpillar location in Wamego, Kansas or outsourced to external suppliers....