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...
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]
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....
Heat Treatment Vietnam
In our quest to see Heat treatment departments around the world, Gord and Dale Montgomery of “The Monty Heat Treat News” are visiting Laos and Vietnam. While this photo has nothing to do with heat treating it is rather interesting. This is “The Gateway to Heaven” located on the China/Vietnam border....
John Sheahan Joins Busch VFE Ltd
In the UK we see that Mr. John Sheahan very recently joined Busch VFE, a division of Busch Vacuum (odd that the Busch name comes up again today, we have had several news items about the company recently). John brings a lifetime of experience to his new position as Senior Technical Manager -...
AICHELIN Modernizes SKF Plants in Lüchow, Germany
"Retrofit of 5 Roller Hearth Furnaces Increases Production Reliability and Performance. Retrofitted AICHELIN roller hearth furnaces (© AICHELIN Service GmbH). Mödling/Ludwigsburg/Lüchow (ptp/22.03.2023/08:00) - SKF GmbH produces different roller bearing products in their plant in Lüchow in Lower...
French Aerospace Company Falsifying Heat Treat Data?
Recently we had a brief note about how a component on Boeing 737Max airplanes called a “slat track” was possibly defective due to improper heat treating. We posted the story and promptly forgot all about it until a reader sent us this article. This very well written and researched article comes from...
Safety in Heat Treatment By David Pye
Safety in heat Treatment touches each and every one who works in either a captive or a commercial heat treatment shop. We all have a responsibility to each other to minimize the risk of accidents and injuries (no matter how minimal or extensive that injury might be). The two area’s that this...
SECO/WARWICK
There would appear to be lots happening at Poland based furnace manufacturer SECO/WARWICK and we are looking forward to telling you about some of it, both today and in the near future. We can share that the company will soon have a new CEO as Pawel Wyrzykowski is no longer with the company as of...
Monday Morning Briefing
We are going to start off in Canada for a couple of news items about commercial heat treating. In the first we see that Exactatherm in Mississauga will be celebrating their 40th anniversary with a barbeque this coming Friday. Exactatherm was founded by Dr. Peter Lidster and the company is NADCAP...
Automated Heat Treating South Carolina Closed
It is seldom you hear about a commercial heat treat just closing their door but that is exactly what has happened to this South Carolina company. Automated Heat Treating, Inc in Woodruff, SC has closed their doors. Apparently the owner Frank Jones has decided to retire at the young age of 84 and...
Strong Forge & Fabrication Fire, Batavia, New York, USA
Captive heat treater Strong Forge & Fabrication in Batavia, NY (Buffalo area) suffered a small fire recently which originated in the ducting from one of their batch IQ furnaces-amazing how often fires start in furnace ducting. We have this report from a local newspaper; “At Strong Forge &...