Top Heat Treatment Industry News Items Week 31

Each week “The Monty Heat Treat News” looks at the Top 3 news items for the previous week based upon reader interest. For the week starting July 29th 2024 these were the top 3 news stories;
 
“World’s Largest Commercial Heat Treater Releases Interim Results; UK based “Bodycote” is without a doubt the globe’s largest commercial heat treater, the firm just released their interim financial results for the six months to 30 June 2024.
 
Supplier Named in Faulty Heat Treating of Ball Studs; Recently “The Monty Heat Treat News” posted a news item entitled “Experimental Heat Treatment Leads to Recall” https://themonty.com/experimental-heat-treatment-leads-to-recall/ While it served as yet another reminder of how important heat treating is to the manufacturing process it was rather short on details. This update provides some more information and identifies the supplier involved. The complete story can be found at “Trucking Info” https://www.truckinginfo.com/10225435/recall-nearly-8-000-paccar-and-navistar-trucks-may-have-steering-defect 
 
Heat Treatment Names in the News; On a regular basis “The Monty” offers “Heat Treatment Names in the News”, a compilation of individuals in the heat treatment industry who have made recent changes. These names make our list for the week of July 30, 2024. https://themonty.com/heat-treatment-names-in-the-news-6/
 
Glenn Ottinger, ThermoFusion. After 16 years with the company Mr. Glenn Ottinger, President & CEO is leaving ThermoFusion for new opportunities. ThermoFusion is a heat treating and brazing company located in Hayward, California, USA. https://thermo-fusion.com/
 
Bruno Cardoso, Braddock Metallurgical. Mr. Bruno Cardoso has just been appointed General Manager of the Braddock Metalurgical facility in Atlanta, Georgia. Bruno is an experienced heat treater having worked at various Bodycote facilities including interestingly enough one of the Bodycote plants in Brazil (which is no longer part of Bodycote). Braddock is one of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America-find out where they rank at https://themonty.com/project/the-montys-50-largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treaters-2024/ 
 
Eduardo Hernandez, CRIO Heat Treat. Crio Heat Treat one of the larger commercial heat treaters in Mexico and they have just hired Mr. Eduardo Hernandez for a “Materials & Applications” position. Crio has two locations in the country and the President is none other than “Mr. Carlos Torres”, host of the wildly popular “Heat Treat Podcast” which appears regularly on “The Monty Heat Treat News”. 
 
Paul Westcott, Ipsen USA. Paul has been with vacuum furnace builder Ipsen in Rockford, IL, USA for over 20 years in a variety of positions. Very recently he was appointed Production Manager at the company. Ipsen is rated by “The Monty Heat Treat News” as the largest new furnace builder in North America https://themonty.com/project/10-largest-north-american-heat-treat-furnace-builders/
 
Bob Brock, AFC-Holcroft. In the world of furnace manufacturing, we see that Mr. Bob Brock has been promoted to Technical Sales Manager at furnace builder AFC-Holcroft. AFC, based in Wixom, Michigan, USA is a division of Aichelin in Modling, Austria. 

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