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...
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]
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...
Commercial Heat Treating-A Family Affair
It is estimated that there are several hundred commercial heat treaters in North America, probably at least half of these are small and medium sized family owned and run businesses-such is Cambridge Heat Treat in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1982 by Bob Robbins, it is now owned and run by...
Commercial Heat Treater Adds Nitriding System
According to this press release a commercial heat treater in Turkey by the name of Saglam Metal has recently installed a new, pit style gas nitriding furnace as can be seen in the PR below. Largely due to a substantial presence of automotive suppliers in the county Turkey boasts a large, varied and...
ROHDE Schutzgasöfen GmbH
We started off our week in Europe with a visit to furnace manufacturer Rohde in Hanau, Germany and have these two photos to prove it. These pictures were taken on their plant floor and show a couple of furnaces fairly close to being completed. We see in the forefront of one of the photos a Pit...
European Heat Treating Week
With the Thermprocess show in Dusseldorf this week we at “The Monty” will be attending the show and at the same time visiting some commercial and captive heat treats in Germany and the Netherlands which means we will have a number of news items about the European heat treating market. One company...
Temperature Uniformity By David Pye
Temperature UniformityTemperature uniformity within a furnace means; ‘a uniform temperature set to operate within a specific tolerance band to create conditions under which a final uniform resulting metallurgy will be accomplished in the treated component’. Fig 1. A simple schematic sketch of the...
Texas Heat Treating Installs New Ipsen Vacuum Furnace
The fact that Texas Heat Treating in the USA purchased a new vacuum furnace last year certainly made our news section-you can now see a photo of the unit installed. This is an Ipsen TurboTreater H5448 6-Bar Horizontal Vacuum Treating Furnace with working dimensions of 36" X 48" X 36"....
Ipsen Expands Sales Engineering Presence
Ipsen USA recently embarked on an initiative to double the number of Regional Sales Engineers (RSEs) by year-end. Ipsen’s RSEs engage customers with the objective of improving furnace performance and increasing service life. “The North American market has proven the need for a strong and technically...
Where Are They Now-Don Longenette
With his vast experience in the North American heat treating market with companies such as Timken Bearings and Bodycote Don’s is a name recognized by most heat treaters. Most recently he was GM of commercial heat treater Certified Heat Treat in Springfield, Ohio, USA, however things change and Don...