In House Heat Treater Expands-Allied Locke Update
Last week we had an interesting item about a US firm by the name of Allied Locke in Dixon, IL expanding their in house heat treat department (the original story can by found at this link In House Heat Treater Continues to Expand Heat Treat Department | The Monty and also below). As it turns out what...
Solar Atmospheres Vacuum Heat Treats Titanium Manifold for Artemis 1 Mission
NASA’s unmanned Orion spacecraft launched successfully from Cape Canaveral at 1:47 am for a six-week test flight around the moon and back. This launch marks the first iteration of NASA’s moon-to-Mars Artemis 1 program. Each successive launch is designed to push the rocket through a series of...
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]
Phoenix Heat Treat Gives “The Monty Heat Treat News” a Tour
As previously mentioned commercial heat treater Phoenix Heat Treat gave “The Monty Heat Treat News” a 5 star tour of their facility this past Friday, a tour which we have been looking forward to. As the largest commercial heat treater between San Diego, CA and Dallas, Texas, USA we were anticipating...
Heat Treating Giant Bodycote Has Strong Third Quarter Financial Results
Bodycote the world’s largest commercial heat treater (to see how the company compares to competitors we would suggest The Monty Heat Treat News – 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2022 | The Monty) announced on November 18th, 2022 a trading update for the four month period from July1...
Phoenix Heat Treating Inc., to Host “The Monty Heat Treat News”
Later on today Gord Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" will be taking a tour of one of the most prominent members of MTI (Metal Treating Institute) and the largest commercial heat treater in Arizona, USA-Phoenix Heat Treating Inc. Phoenix has a long distinguished history going back over 50...
UK Company Adds More Vacuum Brazing Capacity
"Wall Colmonoy Limited (UK) is pleased to announce it has upgraded its capabilities with the acquisition of an Ipsen Vacuum Braze furnace. The new furnace will be comparable to the largest braze furnaces at Wall Colmonoy, with dimensions of 1400mm x 1270mm x 1015mm and an improved vacuum level of...
Vacuum Furnace Manufacturer Has Successful Third Quarter
"Solar Manufacturing Inc. had a successful 3rd quarter this year acquiring purchase orders for ten vacuum furnaces. The various types of new furnace orders ranged in size from the compact Mentor® and Mentor® Pro series to a large production furnace with a work zone of up to 72” in length. The...
“The Monty Heat Treat News” Visits “Thermal Vac, Arizona”
One of the only "greenfield", brand new commercial heat treats in North America in 2022 is the Thermal Vac, Arizona facility in Chino Valley, Arizona and Gord & Dale Montgomery of "The Monty Heat Treat News" were lucky to be able to land an exclusive visit just yesterday. First the background...
Inductoheat Webinar
In this webinar, attendees will learn about: Induction hardening of powertrain transmission and engine components Failure analysis How to avoid cracking in induction hardening Subtleties of heating parts with holes, fillets, and other geometrical irregularities Re-hardening (re-austenitization) of...
Monday Morning Briefing
Now the beginning to this Monday Morning Briefing has little to do directly with heat treating but we just had to mention it since it has to do with Linamar. This international auto parts maker is one of the larger captive heat treaters in North America and as such we have mentioned them many times...
Commercial Heat Treating Discovered?
Our news item of earlier this week about California Brazing being acquired by an equity firm shows a trend which we have been seeing for some time now and which appears to be accelerating-namely equity firms investing in the commercial heat treating industry (this is the original news item; “Trive...
Paulo Cleveland Management Changes
Paulo is the second largest commercial heat treater in North America and we are always pleased to mention what they are up to. This press release caught our attention because Andy Muto (who is mentioned) has just been promoted to Operations Manager. Andy is the son of long time Paulo employee Bob...
Nitriding, Process Methods and Metallurgy
From international heat treat consultant David Pye [email protected] we have an article about Nitriding. The process Nitriding is a diffusion process and not a deposition process. It is a diffusion procedure that is reliant on a nitrogen source, and a low thermal process temperature (which, by looking...
Very Large Plasma Nitrider Installed in China
Shortly before Christmas we posted a photo of the largest Plasma nitrider RÜBIG Industrial Furnaces had ever built-we now have a few more details. The unit will shortly be in operation at a gear manufacturer in China who is providing ring gears to the wind industry. With an effective diameter of 2,2...