Change in Management at Thermal Process Holdings
Thermal Process Holdings is ranked by “The Monty Heat Treat News” as one of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America-find out their ranking at The Monty Heat Treat News – 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2022 | The Monty Effective March 30, 2023 the President and CEO of...
California, USA Heat Treater Closes Doors
"In Chatworth, California, USA we find a small commercial by the name of Thermal Technologies who summarize their company thusly; "Thermal Tech, Inc. (TTI) provides thermal processing of materials for a variety of industries including aerospace, automotive and medical. We strive to meet customer...
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]
Furnace Manufacturer Delivers a Nitriding System in Turkey
Arslan Aluminyum recently added three new extrusion presses to its production, increasing the demand for nitriding dies and necessitating a large-capacity nitriding system for the biggest press. Because the plant was upgraded and a new nitriding system furnace was required to help double the...
Robert J. (Bob) Swanlund February 13, 1957 – March 14, 2023
Longtime Metlab employee Robert J. (Bob) Swanlund of Philadelphia passed away suddenly at his residence last week. Bob was the beloved husband of Sharon, married for over 30 wonderful years. He was the loving father of Anthony and Brianna. He will be sadly missed by his grandchildren, Alexander,...
Ask the Heat Treat Recruiter
The Monty Heat Treat News has worked closely with International Search Partners, a US search firm which is known for being the only recruiting agency in the world working exclusively in the heat treatment industry, for many years now. In 2023, The Monty is pleased to announce that this relationship...
Colorado, USA Heat Treater Moves to Larger Building, Adds More Capacity
We last mentioned commercial heat treater Metalex in Berthoud, Colorado, in June of 2022 when the company added a deep cryogenic system (the original posting is below). Since that time the firm has moved into a new 10,000 ft facility and added another cryogenic system, again from the same...
Joe Wuenning, WS Thermal Processing Technology Inc.-The Interview
Today Gord Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” Speaks with Mr. Joe Wuenning, President of WS Thermal Processing Technology Inc. Gord Montgomery; I am going to go out on a limb and say unequivocally that the foremost topic in the heat treatment industry these days is that of energy and...
Komatsu Mining Auctions Off Surplus Heat Treating Equipment
Heavy equipment supplier and captive heat treater Komatsu Mining is auctioning off a number of heat treating furnaces which are surplus to their ongoing operations as we speak. Komatsu Mining, West Milwaukee Manufacturing Facility is having an ongoing “on line” auction which features a wide variety...
Jens Baumann & Edgar Falkowski
Back in March of this year we mentioned that Jens Baumann & Edgar Falkowski in Germany had parted ways with controls company UPC (the UPC ad can be found on the right side of this page). We lost touch with them, however we learned that they both very recently started with a company by the name...
Thermprocess, Germany
Yes we did say that we had completed our coverage of the recent heat treat exhibition in Germany however we came across these final two photos. “Fluke Process Instruments. Fluke was demonstrating a really cool thermal imaging camera at the Thermprocess show. On the left side of this photo we...
Bruce Hynes, Services, Ovens & Baths
Yesterday we mentioned the passing of Bruce Hynes, founder of used furnace equipment company Furnaces, Ovens and Baths in Michigan. The obituary mentioned the rather unusual way that he entered the industry-from barber to used equipment dealer which is a new one on us. In spite of the fact that he...
Thermprocess, Dusseldorf, Germany
We have some final photos from the heat treat exhibition in Germany last week. No show is complete without temperature profiling company Phoenix TM. In this photo we see from the left; Bastian Sulinski, Michael Taake, Carola Konitzer and Dr. Steve Offley. Steve is holding a PTM 1220 datalogger....
Bruce Hynes, Furnaces Ovens and Baths
We regret to mention the passing of Mr. Bruce Hynes, founder of Furnaces, Ovens and Baths in Michigan, USA. Furnaces, Ovens and Baths has become one of the largest used equipment dealers in North America and we will have more to say about, Bruce, his background and his history in the industry...
Thermprocess 2019 Dusseldorf, Germany
The world's largest heat treat exhibition, Thermprocess being held in Dusseldorf, Germany is rapidly drawing to a close and as it does we present these photos from the exhibition with more to come over the course of the next week. The general consensus? That attendance is down and two heat treat...