Solar Atmospheres Expands Western Region Team with Addition of Eric Cavenee
"Solar Atmospheres of California is thrilled to welcome Eric Cavenee to our Western Region Outside Sales team! In this role, Eric will support customers across the western United States with world-class thermal processing solutions for aerospace, defense, medical, additive manufacturing, nuclear,...
MTI Educational Foundation Awards $80,000 in Scholarships to 17 Students
The MTI Educational Foundation is pleased to announce that 17 outstanding students have been awarded scholarships totaling $80,000 to support their pursuit of education and careers in materials science, metallurgy, engineering, and related industrial and technical fields. This year’s recipients were...
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]
Heat Treat Fixturing-“The Heat Treat Podcast”
For several years now "The Monty Heat Treat News" has been featuring "The Heat Treat Podcast" in conjunction with our witty, knowledgeable and enthusiastic host Mr. Carlos Torres. One of our most popular podcasts featured "Mr. Jim Wilbur" of "Wm Wright & Associates" one of North America's...
Reader Question-“Does Sauder Heat Treat Furnaces Still Exist?”
We always appreciate reader's questions about the heat treatment industry and are happy to provide answers if we can. In this case a reader posed this question; "I am looking at a used car bottom furnace which appears to be in quite good condition and reasonably priced. However the nameplate...
SECO/WARWICK Lands Another Order In the Aerospace Industry
"A premium manufacturer in the aviation industry has invested in an advanced vacuum furnace for brazing fuel system components for aircraft engines. SECO/WARWICK will deliver yet another vacuum furnace system for a manufacturer of components for aircraft engines. This is the result of years of...
Commercial Heat Treater “Bodycote” Bets on Zero Carbon Emissions
Bodycote, the world's largest commercial heat treater has long been very vocal about it's ambitious sustainability agenda both under it's previous CEO, Mr. Stephen Harris and it's current CEO, Mr. Jim Fairbairn (an interview with Mr. Fairbairn can be found at: "The Monty" Interviews "Jim Fairbairn"...
Wally Bamford “Can Eng” 1932-2025
The obituary for Wally Bamford paints the picture of an individual who led a remarkable life full of many accomplishments. For the team at "The Monty" we will always think of Wally as the man who brought mesh belt furnace lines to North America, a feat which significantly changed the entire...
GM Enterprises And Its’ Place in the Aichelin Aquisition of Nitrex
The recent acquisition of "Nitrex by Aichelin" caught the global heat treat industry by surprise; "Blockbuster Acquistion in the Global Heat Treat Furnace Industry". While the official press release was reasonably detailed it certainly raised a host of questions about how this acquisition would look...
North American Furnace Builder Lands Large Order
NUTEC Bickley, based in Mexico is a very substantial furnace builder but one which you hear little about (for a little background you can to this previous post on "The Monty Heat Treat News" about the company https://themonty.com/nutec-group-announces-change-of-ceo/). Over the years "The Monty"...
USA Commercial Heat Treater Expands
Expanite® is expanding its U.S. Operations and Organization – adding significant Heat Treatment Capacity and New Technologies! Expanite, the innovative heat treatment and surface hardening provider, is significantly expanding its U.S. operations. As part of this strategic investment, Expanite is...
Aalberts Surface Technologies Adding Another Vacuum
"Another vacuum furnace from SECO/WARWICK will technologically strengthen the Aalberts Surface Technologies Group. The Group already has 13 SECO/WARWICK brand solutions, and the current contract related to the order of the Vector vacuum furnace is the delivery directed to one of the Dutch branches....
Bob Fincken Talks About The Evolution & Future Of Furnace Controls
Today we have Bob Fincken, Vice President of Sales for Super Systems Inc. (SSi) and Carlos Torres discussing furnace control technology. Discover insights into how furnace control technology has evolved and what the future holds for this essential field. Did you like this article? Click here to...
ECM Reorganizing
"The ECM Group is reorganizing its companies and structuring its business into four distinct divisions to strengthen its agility, resilience and capacity for innovation. One of the main areas of this reorganization concerns its capital goods manufacturing business. This involves the merger of ECM...
Top Heat Treat News Items Week of November 4
Every week "The Monty Heat Treat News" looks back at our news items from the previous week to see what our most popular heat treatment news items were based upon our readers responses, social media views and "hits" on "The Monty Heat Treat News". When we look back upon the week starting November...