Top Heat Treatment News Items, Week of August 19th 2024
Each week “The Monty Heat Treat News” looks at our “top 3” Heat Treatment news stories for the previous week. This is determined by the number of views on our website www.themonty.com and also on social media.
For the week starting August 19th, 2024 our top 3 news items were;


Certainly, we would agree that globally probably 15% of heat treating is done by commercial heat treaters with the % being higher in Germany as an example and lower in India. The global division of market size is probably accurate based on our knowledge the industry and again makes for interesting reading. So, there you go, if the size of the global heat-treating market is ever a trivia question at your local bar you can confidently claim that you know the answer.”

Looking Closer – Why Buy a Vertical Vacuum Furnace? Abar Corporation started producing large bottom-loading vertical vacuum furnaces in the 1960s, most notably building the largest of its kind at the time in 1969 with a gigantic 96-inch by 96-inch work zone (pictured above). “Aerospace companies on the east coast started buying multiple Abar vertical furnaces, lining them up in a row to meet the demands of the space race and the growing commercial aircraft business,” said Mark Heninger, Ipsen’s Director of Equipment Sales. By the time Abar and Ipsen merged in 1985, vertical vacuum furnaces had a steady demand. While these furnaces could do just about everything their horizontal counterparts could do—annealing, carburizing, hardening, tempering, etc.—the vertical furnaces could uniquely handle delivering heat and quenching with a high level of control for very large or very long cylindrical parts with varying thicknesses. Picture a cross-section of an aircraft fuselage, or the engine nozzle of an orbital rocket.(COMPLETE STORY AT https://themonty.com/why-a-vertical-vacuum-furnace-contributed-by-ipsen-usa/“