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...
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]
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...
AVION Europe Adding Location
AVION Europa GmbH & Co. KG is German company supplying various parts and components to the heat treatment industry (incidentally there is an AVION Heat Treatment Equipment in Ohio also). The company recently announced they opened another facility in the Lower Rhine area of Germany as we can see...
Laser Heat Treating, Additive Manufacturing LLC
Laser heat treating represents a miniscule portion of the heat treating market but it is one that we run across from time so it was with great interest that Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" recently visited a company in Clinton Township, Michigan, USA who offers laser heat treating....
Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Announces Building Expansions in Iowa and Michigan
Advanced Heat Treat Corp. (AHT), a recognized leader in heat treat services and metallurgical solutions, announced building expansions at their Monroe, Michigan and Waterloo, Iowa locations. The extra space will enable AHT to add more equipment and services. The Michigan AHT location is expanding...
SECO/WARWICK Introduces New Products
SECO/WARWICK has just unveiled two new products, which are to solve every day heat treat problemsVarious industries are currently experiencing unprecedented changes. Emerging technologies open new doors, but on the other hand, pose a challenge. SECO/WARWICK, often referred to as an "innovator",...
Bill Jones, Solar Group of Companies, Nitriding Comments
Bill Jones, CEO of Solar Manufacturing and Solar Atmospheres offers these comments on nitriding in response to a news item we had yesterday about nitriding; “With respect to the Nitrex Company Memoriam on the distinguish career of Dr. Tymowski, I would like to offer a minor correction. Nitriding of...
Nitrex Metals “In Memoriam”
"Nitrex Metal is mourning the loss of two distinguished members of the heat-treating community, Professor Jan Tacikowski of the Institute of Precision Mechanics, Poland and Dr. George Tymowski, former Vice President of R&D at Nitrex Metal. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of our friends...
Exactatherm 40th Anniversary
Commercial heat treater Exactatherm celebrated their 40th anniversary this past Friday and indeed the company has a lot to celebrate. Founded by Dr. Peter Lidster the company has grown and prospered over the years and is now run by the second generation of Lidsters. Our guess would be that one of...
Webster Industries, Tiffin, Ohio, USA
Yesterday we had the opportunity to a very interesting captive heat treater in Tiffin, Ohio, USA. Webster Industries is a 140 year old manufacturer of custom chains and as such has a very substantial captive heat treat department consisting of batch and continuous furnaces. With almost 400 employees...