In House Heat Treater Continues to Expand Heat Treat Department
Headquartered in Dixon, Illinois, USA Allied Locke is a manufacturer of chain and chain products. Founded in 1965 as Allied Chains the company has grown and prospered over the years and now has five divisions: Agricultural Chain, Precision Roller Chain, Industrial Chain, Sprockets, and Environmental...
Remembrance Day
November 11th is Remembrance Day in Canada, also known as Armistice Day and “poppy day” around the world. It’s our annual reminder of significant sacrifices made in the past that have led to current freedoms. It’s observed on this date to commemorate the end of World War I, which officially took...
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]
Aluminum Extrusion Company Adds More Nitriding Capacity
“Lenox Group, an aluminum extrusion profiles company, decided to buy a Nitrex turnkey nitriding system after expanding operations with the addition of a second extrusion press to its plant in Bulgaria. Faced with increased production and disappointing nitriding results from third-party processing...
US Air Force Base Receives Delta H Furnace
DELTA H® and Phillips Federal Deliver To Tinker AFB, OK - USAF, Their First AMS2750G Qualified Heat Treating System For Military Aircraft Oklahoma City – Tinker AFB: DELTA H® recently delivered the first heat treating system certified to AMS2750G for heat treating aviation grade aluminum for...
“The Heat Treat Podcast” Talks Additive Manufacturing and Heat Treat
In one of the best “Heat Treat Podcasts” ever our eloquent and witty host Mr. Carlos Torres talks “Additive Manufacturing and Heat Treat”. His guests are Mr. Paul Tallon and Erick Tenuta of Burloak Technologies Inc., a company much in the news over the past couple of years because of their ground...
Improved Cooling Rates in Fluidized-Bed Systems
Our friends at “Industrial Heating Magazine” just published an article written by Andreas Guderjahn of Schwing Technologies, a company offering a patented fluidized bed technology. The article can be found at Industrial Heating | Thermal processing technical journal covering heat treating, &...
What to Consider When Bringing Heat Treat In House
(originally posted March 2021) KROHNE is a world-leading manufacturer and supplier of solutions in industrial process instrumentation. Within the UK, KROHNE Ltd is the group’s global centre of excellence for Coriolis mass flowmeter technology. Its manufacturing plant in Wellingborough is where the...
Obsidian Technical Group
"We are excited to announce the newest group to join the metals heat treating and materials processing industry. Obsidian Technical Group, LLC (Obsidian) was started earlier this year by Jason and Eric Jossart, best known for founding Atmosphere Engineering, a premier sensors manufacturer and...
What’s It Worth? Large 2 Bar Vacuum Furnace
We have often said that the two most desirable items on the used equipment market are Batch IQ Furnaces (36” X 48” X 36” or larger) and vacuum furnaces with diffusion pumps and at least 2 bar quenching (by the way to this list we would also add top notch Gas and Ion Nitriders as being extremely...
Largest Commercial Induction Heat Treater North America
So who is probably the largest commercial Induction heat treater in North America? Well the answer will probably surprise you, Contour Hardening with location in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA and Silao, Mexico. If this surprises you, it certainly surprised us also. The company has been in the news...
Solar Atmospheres Promotes Mike Paponetti
“Greenville, SC, December 12, 2018 - Solar Atmospheres South Carolina facility proudly announces that Mike Paponetti has accepted the position of Sales Manager. Prior to accepting this position, Mike was the Regional Sales Manager at our Hermitage, PA facility. Mike will lead the sales efforts to...
Expanite’s Surface Hardening
“Expanite the Danish pioneer specializing in surface hardening of stainless steel and titanium—is widely replacing coatings in a variety of demanding applications. For more than 70 years, coatings, in their various forms, have been “the standard” to improve resistance towards wear, impact, and...
Heat Treat Acquisitions/P & L Heat Treating, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
2018 was a banner year for acquisitions in the North American commercial heat treating industry-possibly a record breaking year (if we ignore Bodycote acquiring Lindberg all those years ago). No company has been more prolific though than Thermal Process Holdings. Regular readers of “The Monty” will...
Paulo Celebrates Milestone Anniversary
Paulo is celebrating its milestone 75th year in business. The company was founded in 1943 in St. Louis by husband and wife Ben and Pauline Rassieur. The two had previously worked for Central Mine Equipment Company. Pauline, after whom Paulo is named, was one of the first women to earn an engineering...