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...
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]
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...
This Year’s Recipient of The William Hunt Eisenman Award is Dr. Valery Rudnev
"Dr. Valery Rudnev is the Director of Science & Technology (retired) at Inductoheat, Inc., an Inductotherm Group Company. He is considered by many as one of the leading global figures in the induction heating and heat-treating industry. Dr. Rudnev has more than 40 years of experience and is...
McLaughlin Furnace Group/Rhode Announce New Salt Recovery Project
Earlier this year "The Monty Heat Treat News" announced that US furnace builder McLaughlin Furnace Group and German furnace company Rohde Schutzgasoefen had come to an agreement on working together. Today we have this joint press release from the two companies about a new project; NOVEMBER 4, 2022;...
Supply Chain Issues Continue to Plague Heat Treatment Industry
The heat treatment industry is certainly not alone in experiencing the challenges brought about by inflation, disruptions in the global supply chain, rising energy costs and labor market issues. This is reflected in the fact that pricing for virtually everything has increased along with delivery...
Bodycote Appoints Steven Campbell VP Automotive, NA
Heat treating giant Bodycote The leading provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services worldwide – Bodycote plc has just appointed Mr. Steven John Campbell to the position of Vice President, Automotive, North America. Previous to this John was Bodycote Country Manager...
Watlow® Completes Acquisition of Eurotherm®
June 8th of this year it was announced that controls company Watlow would be acquiring Eurotherm from Schneider Electric Company®. The deal was concluded and announce Wednesday of this week. Both companies are well known in the heat treatment industry. “11/2/22 St. Louis, MO – Watlow®, a designer...
Seminario ExpoTermicos
Earlier this week we had a photo from the recent Heat Treat Seminar in Querétaro, México. As a follow up to that we have two more photos. In the first one we see from the left Esteban Aguilar Garcia of comercial Heat treater Crio, Steve Thompson of SSI looking very happy about something although we...
Thermal Process Holdings Acquires Hudapack Metal Treating Inc.
"November 28, 2018 – Thermal Process Holdings, Inc. (“TPH”) is pleased to announce its acquisition of Hudapack Metal Treating, Inc. (“Hudapack”), which owns and operates heat treat facilities in Elkhorn and Franklin Wisconsin. Hudapack, co-founded by Gary Huss, Charles Davis, and Earl Pack,...
You Have to be Kidding Me!
Business is good in the industry these days which means a shortage of used furnaces which translates into prices edging up but this is taking it to an extreme! Just yesterday we were offered this batch IQ furnace for $59,000 USD as is/where is but loaded on to a truck (the vendor stressed that as...
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Besides offering Captive and Commercial heat treaters around the world the latest news and trends in the industry “The Monty” offers so much more. For instance our interviews page https://themonty.com/interviews/ offers almost 50 interviews with some of the most influential people in the industry....
Contour Hardening Adding Gas Nitriding
This rather interesting article tells us about another company, Contour Hardening in this case adding gas nitriding. We honestly don’t know who the supplier is but there is only a handful of US companies that offer new gas nitriding furnaces.“Contour is excited to announce the purchase of a gas...
Expansion of Capacity at Hauck Heat Treatment Ltd.
“Hauck Heat Treatment has added further Vacuum heat treatment capacity to its range of Aerospace furnaces at the Letchworth site in Hertfordshire, UK. The high vacuum, high pressure quench furnace increases the total capacity offered on site at >30% by volume and >35% by weight and also...