Solar Atmospheres South Carolina Facility Awarded Northrop Grumman Approval
"Solar Atmospheres Greenville, SC facility is pleased to announce it has been awarded Northrop Grumman approval. With this approval, now all five Solar Atmospheres facilities are an option for our customers with Northrop Grumman requirements for vacuum heat treating services. Steve Prout, President...
Premium Auto Parts Supplier Invests in New Vacuum Furnace
Standard Motor Products, Inc. https://www.smpcorp.com/en is a leading manufacturer and distributor of premium automotive parts to both the aftermarket and original equipment customers. In the aftermarket, SMP's products are used in the maintenance, service and repair of vehicles, and are largely...
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]
Japanese Heat Treater Sees Energy Bill Double to $600,000 USD/Month
Energy Pricing has been an enormous issue to the global heat treatment industry and “The Monty Heat Treat News” has touched on this subject many times. Very recently a Japanese reader sent us this article with a summary that North Americans have little to complain about. Their example is a company...
“The Monty Heat Treat News” Visits Solar Atmospheres of Michigan
January 9th of this year it was announced that commercial heat treater Vac-Met in Michigan had been acquired by Solar Atmospheres. That announcement also mentioned that the 9 existing vacuum furnaces at Vac-Met would be moved to a brand new location in Chesterfield, Michigan. Armed with this...
Jimmy Morris May 14th 1959-February 23, 2023
The heat treat industry recently lost another good one, Mr. Jimmy Morris. Jimmy was best known in the southern USA, in particular in Texas where he worked with a number of captive and commercial heat treaters installing control systems and servicing furnaces. He will be missed. "Jimmy Neil Morris,...
Burner Company “Noxmat” Formally Enters North American Market
"Noxmat Industrial Heating Technology" formally entered the North American market March 1/2023 when they set up a brand new facility in Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA. Noxmat based in Germany has long been a significant player in the global heating technology industry with locations in Europe,...
Unannealed Pinions Causes Ford To Recall Vehicles
"Ford’s quality control appears to be getting worse. The Dearborn-based automaker somehow forgot to anneal the front axle pinions that equip certain F-150, Expedition, and Lincoln Navigator vehicles. By not receiving the proper heat treatment, said pinions are prone to fracture, resulting in the...
Busch Acquires VESCO-McLaughlin-A Pattern
Earlier this week "The Monty Heat Treat News" was the first to announce the acquisition of the VESCO Division of McLaughlin Furnace Group by Busch Vacuum Solutions US. The news was not unexpected and represents a very good business decision by both groups in the humble opinion of "The Monty Heat...
NASA Moon to Mars Mission Part 2 By David Pye
We continue the discussion the Part 2 presentation of this epic journey. Now the United States of America with NSA are now really planning the ultimate Lewis and Clarke experience by opening up the passage/route/journey to our nearest interplanetary neighbour, which is that of Mars.How will the...
Helium Shortages
Helium is used in some vacuum furnace gas quenching applications, we can think of a few installations around the world that rely heavily on helium-every one of which recycles. Having said that recycling is never 100% effective which means there is always some losses which is where this article comes...
Monday Morning Briefing
SIFCO Forge Fire. SIFCO provides forgings to the Energy and Aerospace Industries from locations in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Italy and Orange, California. Back on December 26th the Orange facility suffered a bad fire as you can see from this press release from the company; "We experienced a fire at...
Caterpillar/Texas Heat Treating
Back on March 28, 2018 we had a news item about an auction of the remaining equipment at a Caterpillar facility in Waco, Texas. Subsequent to our original news item we mentioned that all of the AFC-Holcroft batch IQ furnaces had been purchased by a used equipment dealer. Well the used equipment...
Specialty Steel Treating Invests in New AFC-Holcroft Equipment As Part Of Multi-Year Program
“Commercial heat treater Specialty Steel Treating in Fraser, Michigan (USA) has invested in new AFC-Holcroft UBQ (Universal Batch Quench) furnace and a UBTN (Universal Batch Temper) annealing furnace as companion equipment, as part of a larger multi-year equipment standardization program intended to...
ALD Vacuum Technologies North America, Inc.
“AMG Advanced Technologies announces the realignment of the North American Equipment Sales Companies, ALD Vacuum Technologies and ALD Vacuum Systems Into the new entity: ALD Vacuum Technologies North America, Inc., headquartered in East Windsor, Connecticut effective January 1st 2019. David Esser,...