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...
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]
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...
CO2 Footprints and the Heat Treatment Industry
"The Monty Heat Treat News" published this article earlier this year but in 2023 we will be publishing a new series of articles related to CO2 emissions in conjunction with the "Aichelin Group". In conjunction with the “Aichelin Group”, “The Monty Heat Treat News” has an ongoing series about CO2...
US Manufacturer to Invest in New Location-Included Heat Treatment
USA based Osmundson Manufacturing Co. has carved a global niche in the equipment business by forming ground-engaging tillage parts from raw steel in its Perry, Iowa, facility. While the Osmundson name isn't as well-known as John Deere, Great Plains, Landoll or Kinze, it's not uncommon for their...
H-13 Hot Work Tool Steels: Enhancing Wear Performance with Nitriding Authored by Dr. Edward Rolinski of Advanced Heat Treat Corp
Hot work tool steels can be hardened partially or completely by traditional heat-treating operations [1]. Their hardness stays in the range of 55 HRc even if the tempering temperature reaches 600° C (about 1100° F) which allows the use of these steels for components or tools working at elevated...
Scott Hoensheid December 8, 2022
It is with regret that we mention the passing of Scott Hoensheid well known in the North American commercial heat treat industry as the former President of Commercial Steel Treating of Madison Heights, Michigan. Back in 2018 “The Monty Heat Treat News” came to the conclusion that Commercial Steel...
ALD Vacuum Technologies
Based in Hanau, Germany ALD Vacuum Technologies is one of the largest furnace builders in the world and has offices and manufacturing around the world including in Germany, the US and India-as a matter of fact we recently had a news item about how the company was expanding their facility in Hanau.As...
Thermex Metal Treating Adds Gas Nitriding; Edmonton, Canada
"With the recent commissioning of our new horizontal gas nitrider, Thermex is now operating two state-of-the-art Gas Nitriding furnaces, enabling us to offer controlled 2-stage gas nitriding, with Post Oxidation when required. In addition, with this new equipment we are offering our new Gas FNC...
PhoenixTM Achieves UKAS ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation
“We are pleased to announce that Phoenix Temperature Measurement has recently obtained UKAS ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for its Calibration Laboratory in the UK (Laboratory Number 10560). The new accreditation strengthens the quality of after sales service and calibration provided by PhoenixTM to...
From the Archives
After exactly 50 years in business WG Montgomery Ltd., (“The Monty”) has built up quite an archive of heat treating photos which we like to share on an occasional basis. Here are a few from 15 years ago. ALD South Carolina, USA. It is now almost exactly 10 years since ALD Thermal Treatment closed...
Thermprocess
June of 2019 we will be off to the Thermprocess heat treat exhibition in Germany an event which we have attended a few times over the years. We look back on one that we attended 12 years ago and have these photos for you. Dale Montgomery, Yvan Trouillot, General Manager, ECM Matt Cross, SSI Europe,...
Delta H Technologies, Ohio, USA Expands
Furnace and oven builder Delta H in Carrol, Ohio sent us this press release with the photo below showing Richard and Neal Conway; “Delta H Technologies LLC, a manufacturer of industrial furnaces and heat treatment ovens, plans on adding 11 new jobs and investing more than $300,000 for machinery and...