Quite recently Peters Heat Treat in Meadville, PA, USA had a celebration in honor of their new Meadville facility as you can see in this posting; “This morning we FINALLY got to a have a little celebration and cut the ribbon at our new Meadville home. Thank you to all of the PHT Team for your hard work in making this dream a reality and thank you to the Meadville-Western Crawford County Chamber of Commerce for helping us to take a second to recognize such a monumental step.” Peters is a family owned commercial heat treater founded by Doug Peters and it has grown into quite a substantial facility over the years. We have a photo from the recent celebration and another one which “The Monty” took just a year ago.

In spite of the COVID 19 crisis heat treating investments have not come to a complete halt-as a matter of fact we can think of several recent or on going expansions. S & P Products in CA., will shortly be installing a large carbottom furnace to compliment their in house heat treating department. An auto parts maker in MO, USA which had never done heat treating in house before recently invested in a multi million dollar state of the art facility. And in Indiana, USA a powdered metal company is in the process of adding several batch IQ furnace. So you see there are still many signs of life in the industry.