THE MONTY HEAT TREAT NEWS

We regret to mention the passing of a long time member of the North American heat treatment community, Mr. Wes Gregory. Wes for many years ran R & G Services of Joliet, IL, USA a firm which offered both new and used furnaces along with rebuilding and maintenance services. "WESTON GREGORY...

It makes our day to present to you our readers an interview with Mr. Jim Grann, Technical Director of furnace builder Ipsen. Jim is based in the Rockford, Illinois, USA facility and has the distinction of being the second longest serving employee of the company-by only one month we hasten to add. We...

Today we have two prominent names in the news in the heat treatment industry, one in the USA the second in Austria. Mr. Cole Coe who was president of one of the larger commercial heat treaters in North America, Hi TecMetal Group https://htgmetals.com/   recently moved to the southern US which meant...

“Governor Tom Wolf announced that Gasbarre Products, Inc., an industrial furnace manufacturer, will create and retain 172 total jobs in multiple Pennsylvania counties as part of a planned expansion at the company’s facility in St. Marys, Elk County. The company is investing $5.8 million into the...

The commercial heat treatment industry in North America has had their ups and downs in the past few years but generally it has been fairly stable. An acquisition here, an acquisition there, an occasional closing but generally not too many changes-any changes this year can be found at this brief...

"The Monty Heat Treat News" has just added several quality pieces of lab equipment to our used equipment listings.  Among these listings you will find automated polishers, semi-automatic polishers, wet saws and precision saws.  For information and pictures about the lab equipment listings scroll...

“The Monty” is now e-mailing a “Weekly Update” to approximately 8,000 captive and commercial heat treaters around the globe. This weekly update includes two news items about the heat treatment industry, featured used equipment and one banner ad which can be yours for $99.00 for one “Weekly Update”....

A few weeks back during a visit to Aichelin in Austria (the largest atmosphere furnace builder in the world) we were introduced to heatXpress a product the company has been offering for several years now but which does not get a great deal of publicity in the heat treating industry. Basically it is...

Down in Houston, Texas, USA it would appear that there are some legal issues between commercial heat treaters National Heat Treat and Worldwide Heat Treating. The details can be found at http://www.nationalheattreat.com/index.html under the media/press tab at the top of the page. The photo below...

A few weeks back we had a note about radioactive firebrick, and at the time posed the question; Hoax? True? And we asked for feedback. This was our original note; “October 14/2018. A heat treater recently sent several furnaces to a scrap dealer where they were refused due to the fact that the brick...

"Ipsen USA secured multiple vacuum furnace orders during the Furnaces North America trade show last month and the streak continued throughout the remainder of October, ending with a total of 16 new orders. Among the orders were nine TITAN® vacuum furnaces – a record month in the 10-year production...

In just 3 months “The Monty” celebrates 20 years of providing the most up to date news in the heat treatment industry. Because of this it seemed rather appropriate that we also provide an updated website which went live this past weekend. The new site will be far more “mobile device” friendly, will...