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...
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]
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...
Captive Heat Treater Completes Installation Of Mammoth Heat Treat Department
Castool Tooling Systems, based in Uxbridge, Canada, designs and manufactures production tooling systems for the extrusion and die casting industries. For the extrusion sector, the company pioneered the fixed dummy block, thermally stable container, single cell die heater, and other innovations....
Metal Finishing Company Steel Heat Treat Installs Large Air Age Oven
"Metal Finishing Company just added a new larger Air Age oven on 3/17/23. The Next Gen Air Age Oven was supplied by McLaughlin Furnace Group. The furnace will have a work zone of 60” x 192” x 60” with a temperature range of 300F – 1400F with a +/- 10F range. This furnace meets AMS2750G and allows...
Circuit Breaker Manufacturer Orders Three Vacuum Furnaces
“A Chinese manufacturer of a wide variety of vacuum circuit breakers trusted SECO/WARWICK for the second time by ordering vacuum furnaces for metal heat treatment. This order includes three Vector vacuum furnaces that ensure a very high vacuum level and temperature uniformity within the entire load....
Vacu Braze Expands Capabilities With Clean Processing Furnace
“Quakertown, PA - Vacu Braze, a precision heat treatment facility, recently purchased and installed an American-manufactured vacuum furnace to expand its clean vacuum processing capabilities. The new furnace is now fully operational and already yielding benefits in the company’s state of the art...
SABO BOXTEL, Boxtel, Netherlands
SABO BOXTEL in the Netherlands (which is part of the HARTHA Hardening Industries Group) has quite a unique business model. Founded a number of years ago the company only recently became part of the HARTHA Hardening Industries Group-in 2016 if our memory serves us correctly. While it is a...
Mr. Tadeusz Swiatek, United Process Controls GmbH
It would appear that United Process Controls GmbH probably the largest furnace controls company in Europe has a new sales manager who will be covering all the German speaking areas of Europe. His name is Mr. Tadeusz Swiatek, he is based in Hagen and he joins the company with 15 years of experience...
Nakal Supplies Roller Hearth Furnace To Vietnam
Furnace builder Nakal delivers a brand new roller hearth furnace to Electronic Informatics Chemical Company (Ho Chi Minh City). With working chamber dimensions of (L x W x H) – 6000 mm Long x 300 mm Wide x 300 mm High, this furnace will be used to heat treat up to 6 meter long pipes. There are 3...
IWT/Bremen, Germany, HT Research Facility
We have yet to see a Heat Treatment research facility anywhere in the world to rival that of IWT in Bremen, Germany. The institute has long had a mandate to further the knowledge of all facets of heat treating and to this end the institute has the an amazing array of the most up to date heat...
Precision Gear Inc., Acquires Arrow Gear Company
This isn't recent news, as a matter of fact it dates back to the December of 2018, however it doesn’t seem to have attracted much attention. We of course are interested for the usual reason-both of these companies have very impressive in house heat treating departments. The one photo here shows...
Thermal Product Solutions Appoints Greg Jennings as President and CEO
New Columbia, PA – June 17 th, 2019 – Thermal Product Solutions, LLC (TPS), a global manufacturer of thermal-processing equipment, has appointed Greg Jennings to the position of President and CEO. Jennings has experience in both Fortune 500 and private companies. He has held the position of Chief...