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                                                                                                               NOVEMBER 2020                      VOLUME 9 / NUMBER 11

       2021 BUYER’S GUIDE
            When it comes to heat treating, it’s not just about what you do, but also who you know.
            Identifying quality sources for contract heat treating, equipment, services, and testing is a
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            the most complete source listing available and have presented this information in a way that is
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           hermal Processing has been working hard this year to bring you the latest informa-           Jennifer Jacobson
     T     tion on heat treating, and as we develop plans for 2021, we’re not expecting to
           slow down any time soon.
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     To help you make your business decisions for the coming year, we offer our 2021 Buyer’s           CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
 Guide. It’s a comprehensive resource of company listings for the heat-treating industry. I
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 for heat treating was hard to conceal as he shared his company’s storied eight-decades-old               Teresa Cooper
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COMPANY PROFILE ///
 REX HEAT TREAT

          HEAT
          TREATING
          OUTSIDE
          THE BOX

            Endothermic atmosphere load
            being oil quenched. (Courtesy:
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With more than 30 services ranging from austempering and
martempering to vacuum heat treat and cold straightening
services, Rex Heat Treat serves a range of industries from
aerospace and automotive to construction and defense.
By KENNETH CARTER, Thermal Processing editor

                                                                            ANTICIPATING INDUSTRY NEEDS

   R
              ex Heat Treat has been involved in projects that have
              plumbed the depths of the Gulf and explored the land-         What has driven Rex Heat Treat in its developments is a desire to think
              scapes of Mars, and yet, the company is still considered      outside the box and anticipate what the industry needs in order to
              one of the best-kept secrets of the heat-treating industry.   move it forward.
    However, a quick look at what Rex Heat Treat offers reveals the            “I think this new vertical vacuum furnace is a really good example
wide range of the company’s heat treat services, especially for the         of that,” Rex said. “We built this furnace without any commitments
aerospace, defense, energy, and nuclear industries, as well as many         from any customers. We just knew that there was a gap in the indus-
other commercial involvements.                                              try, and we knew that we were able to design it and have a piece of
  “We just thermally process the metals,” said Johnathan Rex, gen-          equipment that could suspend parts that were 14-and-a-half feet long
eral manager of Rex Heat Treat. “And that involves anything from            and vacuum oil quench them or gas quench them. And, we also knew,
solution annealing of titanium or aluminum on up to carburizing             with the kind of aerospace work that we do, that it’s pretty inefficient
or clean hardening or vacuum processing. We pretty much run the             at times. You’re sitting there; you’re conditioning a furnace for eight
gamut. It’s almost easier to say what we don’t do. We don’t do plasma       hours, then you’re taking two hours to verify the carbon potential,
nitriding or traditional nitriding. We don’t do induction hardening         maybe doing that again if you’re not good. Whereas, with the vacuum
or flame hardening. Besides that, we pretty much do it all.”                furnace, you just simply turn it on, and you’re running. It has really
   And Rex is quick to point out that it’s part of that extensive service   helped us to streamline our processes and make it a bit more efficient
menu that keeps Rex Heat Treat fulfilling a myriad of jobs.                 for us. And now, we’re not consuming the energy, the gases, or the
  “I fell in love with this industry because there are so many dif-         labor to verify the carbon potential.”
ferent materials, and then there are so many configurations of the              Even for aerospace, the sheer variety of jobs can be vast, accord-
parts within those materials. You can have a 4340 part or 300M part         ing to Rex.
and have different configurations, and it changes the entire game,”            “We support the mills who are producing metals for the industry;
he said. “It’s a part-by-part basis, and it’s always changing. There are    there’s several of those that will ship their material to us — it could
always complexities to that.”                                               be for commercial aerospace; it could be for military aerospace,” he
   This philosophy allows Rex Heat Treat to focus on the particular         said. “We also do parts. We do a lot of titanium components for a beta
requirements of a job, according to Rex.                                    solution treat and overage, or just a straight solution treat and age. We
  “We focus on unique needs while leaving high production to oth-           may even do some fasteners; one of our top customers makes fastener
ers,” he said. “And, that’s a really important point. We don’t have belt    components; we anneal that material and return it to them. It’s an
furnaces; we’re not trying to get into the automotive industry.”            in-process step that we’re doing; as they draw the material down to a
                                                                            smaller diameter, it hardens; they send it to us; we anneal it, and then
VERTICAL PROCESSING                                                         they can continue with their processing of reducing that wire size.”
 What has especially made Rex Heat Treat a major player in the heat-            Rex Heat Treat is even involved in heat-treating ordnance and mis-
 treat arena is its focus on vertical processing, according to Rex.         sile components, and Rex emphasized that work is mainly due to the
   “We currently have two vertical gantries here in Lansdale,” he said.     company’s vertical vacuum services.
“One is a 20-foot gantry, with the other being a 15-foot gantry, and           “These missile cases are thin-walled, and if there’s any kind of
 we’ve been running these furnaces since my grandfather installed           decarb on them, then they’re done, and they’re pretty expensive
 them back in the ’50s. And so, for over a half century, we’ve been         parts,” he said. “We’re able to quickly quench those and keep them
 honing our skills on suspending parts and allowing gravity to help         in a vacuum environment.”
 support our efforts. That skill has led us into going with a vertical
 vacuum oil quenching furnace, which is a nice, easy, clean extension,      STORIED HISTORY
 except that the technology is far greater than an element-lined verti-     Just a quick look at some of Rex Heat Treat’s past jobs can drive home
 cal gantry furnace.”                                                       the importance of what the company has been offering industries
    With the addition of a vacuum system, there’s no carbon depletion       for decades.
 in the process, according to Rex.                                             The company was involved in the heat treating of a wrench used
   “There’s no need to burn shims,” he said. “If we’re doing clean,         to help stop the leaking well from the Deep Water Horizon oil spill
 neutral hardening of aerospace components that are near-finished           in 2010, according to Rex.
 machined, the tolerance for allowable decarb is very low. So, with the       “When they finally figured out what they were going to do and
 vacuum process, as long as you’re conforming with what’s required          how they were going to go about doing it, they made us quite a large
 by the AMS specs, we have no decarb.”                                      wrench,” he said. “It was plate steel that was cut-out, and we hardened
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treating, you have no idea what the part is, but all I knew was that, in
                                                                               my mind, it was of national security to get this thing through as fast
                                                                               as possible; it was the most important job in our company. It was only
                                                                               a handful of parts, but it didn’t matter. We were told by our country
                                                                               that they needed those parts, so we did that.”

                                                                               SUPPORTING AMERICAN INDUSTRY
                                                                               That’s just a small part of why Rex loves what Rex Heat Treat can do
                                                                               for American industry.
                                                                                  “I love supporting our country in this unique way, because most
                                                                               people don’t know about heat treating, but it is a very important piece
                                                                               of our industry and the security of our country,” he said. “Just from
                                                                               that standpoint, we do a lot of Department of Defense-rated compo-
                                                                               nents, and each and every one of those, we believe, are helping support
                                                                               our troops and our allies’ troops.”
                                                                                   And Rex Heat Treat has been up for that task — and many others
                                                                               — since it opened its doors in 1938.
                                                                                   Post-World War II, the company, then known as J.W. Rex Company,
                                                                                became a major resource for heat-treating and manufacturing mili-
                                                                               tary ordnance shells for the U.S. Army and Navy.
                                                                                   The company continued to expand through the coming decades,
                                                                               adding manufacturing capabilities for missile cases, tooling for
                                                                               Chinook helicopters, and contracting with Boeing on several proj-
                                                                               ects, to name a few.
                                                                                   In 1999, the company officially became Rex Heat Treat with facili-
                                                                               ties currently in Lansdale and Bedford, Pennsylvania, as well as a
                                                                               facility in Anniston, Alabama.
                                                                                   Through an ever-changing and expanding marketplace, the com-
                                                                               pany has been recognized as one of the largest heat treaters in the
                                                                               Northeastern United States, according to Rex.
Fifteen-foot gantry furnace and traditional Sauder furnaces quenching at the
Lansdale facility. (Courtesy: Rex Heat Treat)                                  KEEPING THINGS DIVERSE
                                                                                But it’s part of that project diversity that Rex said has kept things
                                                                                interesting throughout the company’s 80-year history.
“We’ve done components that are                                                    “We’ve tended to be involved in new and unusual projects,” he said.
                                                                               “And so, I expect those kinds of things to continue to happen. I really
on Mars now, and those parts, as we                                             do think that vacuum processing will continue to grow, and we’ll

all know, will always be on Mars.”
                                                                                continue to grow vacuum processing here as well. Being a standard
                                                                                atmosphere heat treater for most of our history, we’re going to, prob-
                                                                                ably, primarily focus on oil quenching and those kinds of operations
 it. We got that done quickly, as we knew what it was for, and then             that we believe are superior to gas quenching. Gas quenching is great
 shipped it down and they used that tool, along with a rover down on            in many ways, because if you’re just cooling the parts, you don’t have
 the sea floor, to stop that well leak.”                                        to go into oil. Plus, you minimize distortion. But, I think with our
     Rex Heat Treat was also responsible for heat-treating the drill bits       capabilities, we’re able to have a blend between gas quenching and
 that freed the 33 miners in the 2010 Capiapo mining accident in Chile.         oil quenching. If we have a forgiving material, we’re able to stagger
    “One of our customers is the prime that worked on that,” Rex said.          that operation a little bit and minimize distortion.”
“They were sent down to free those miners. They rushed those drill bits             With all of Rex Heat Treat’s capabilities, not to mention its history
 through our facility out in Bedford, Pennsylvania, and we’re proud             of important jobs, it’s still surprising that the company’s name isn’t
 of that.”                                                                      as well-known as it should be.
     And it’s not every company that can boast that they have worked               “We’re not a very vocal company about ourselves; we don’t do
 on equipment that’s sitting on another planet, but Rex Heat Treat has          press releases, I feel like we’re almost one of the best kept secrets in
 heat-treated components that are part of the Mars Exploration Rover            heat treating,” Rex said. “I’ve had customers of ours contact us and
 mission that began in 2003, according to Rex.                                  they’re like, ‘You guys have awesome equipment, awesome services,
    “We’ve done components that are on Mars now, and those parts, as            and awesome capabilities, but I haven’t heard about you.’ Our sales
 we all know, will always be on Mars,” he said.                                 are driven to us by the specifications, by the equipment we have, and
     But perhaps one of Rex Heat Treat’s proudest moments, according            the approvals we carry. We are very creative, and we think outside
 to Rex, is the company’s involvement in equipment used immediately             the box. We’re always going to keep on pushing, keep on driving and
 after 9/11.                                                                    fighting to support our customers, and grow and build this business
    “I got a call from Boeing, and they had this job coming through to          into the niche that we are.”
 us, and the employee from Boeing told me, ‘This is straight from the
 President; we need these parts as fast as possible,’” he said. “To this
 day, I don’t know what those parts were for. A lot of times, in heat          MORE INFO        www.rexht.com

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Pyrometry technician
Frank Rapine prepares a
temperature uniformity
survey (TUS) on a Bell
tempering furnace
that supports the new
Vertical Vacuum Furnace.
(Courtesy: Rex Heat Treat)

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ABBOTT FURNACE COMPANY

     EXCELLING IN ATMOSPHERIC
     FURNACE PRODUCTION

      Abbott Furnace’s     Abbott Furnace Company is an industrial                      vice, and we’re ISO 17025 certified for doing temperature
    Vulcan System can                                                                   calibrations,” he said. “We’re also capable of doing onsite
           perform the     furnace manufacturer with more than 35
                                                                                        training on our equipment and thermal processes. We
 de-lubrication process    years of experience designing and producing                  can do that several different ways: We can provide that
       of powder metal
     components more       some of the industry’s most reliable and high                via the web through WebEx-type applications or come
 effectively. (Courtesy:   performing industrial continuous belt furnaces.              to your facility and present it one-on-one. We’re very big
       Abbott Furnace)                                                                  into the sintering market in the PM fields.”

                             A
                                         good measure of success is repeat business.        Abbott also offers brazing furnaces, according to
                                         For a company that builds industrial fur-      Reardon.
                                         naces, repeat customers become even more           Abbott has a variety of pusher furnaces with tem-
                                         impressive.                                    peratures up to 2,900 degrees Fahrenheit, according to
                               For Abbott Furnace Company, that repeat business is      Reardon, and the company can produce roller hearth fur-
“Our philosophy is         indicative of just what kind of company it is.               naces with a variety of atmospheres. Abbott also makes
                              “We have several customers who have purchased sev-        lab-scale furnaces, atmosphere generators, box furnaces,
  to be the market
                           eral dozen furnaces from us,” said Dan Reardon, director     and car bottom furnaces, according to Reardon.
      leader in the        of technical sales for Abbott Furnace. “We have many            “We also offer some specialized batch furnaces, par-
design, production,        more that have purchased multiple furnaces. To me, this      ticularly if they require some kind of atmosphere con-
        and service        illustrates how well our furnaces perform and that we        trol,” he said.
                           have a very good commitment to our customers to pro-             Abbott has come a long way since it began in 1982 as
     of continuous
                           vide excellent service after the sale.”                      Abbott Control Systems when it was primarily providing
 process industrial            Abbott has, to date, produced 875 furnaces that are      service for other manufacturers’ equipment while build-
          furnaces.”       currently in service in a variety of industries, according   ing some control panels, according to Reardon. When
                           to Reardon.                                                  the owner realized there were hardly any new advance-
                              “Our philosophy is to be the market leader in the         ments in furnace technology, he began to manufacture
                           design, production, and service of continuous process        them himself, building its first one in 1986.
                           industrial furnaces,” he said. “And we do this by focusing       Now, Abbott Furnace has about 80 employees work-
                           our resources on the development of new technology to        ing in a 75,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in St.
                           meet our customer’s specifications.”                         Marys, Pennsylvania, and is still privately owned and
                               Abbott’s furnaces run a gamut of applications, but for   operated.
                           heat treating, Reardon said Abbott excels in atmospheric
                           furnaces.
                              “We have very good troubleshooting skills, field ser-     SEE FULL PROFILE thermalprocessing.com
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without paper so that it’s all automated.”                       through the internet, or the devices can be hardwired     development
   And although CAS Dataloggers works with many                  to signal PLCs or other controlling instruments in the    environments
industries, the need to keep track of data is especially         plant.                                                    with respect to
important in the heat-treat arena.                                   CAS DataLoggers has been in business since 2000,
                                                                                                                           data logging.”
  “I think there are a lot of similarities and need for          according to Martin. The company was started by a
what we do across all the industry segments that we              manufacturer’s rep company. One of the manufactur-
service,” Martin said. “But in the end, many of the cus-         ers decided to change how it went to market in the U.S.,
tomers really have some unique, specific needs when it           and CAS DataLoggers was formed.
comes to their temperature data, or we deal with any
other kinds of data acquisition that’s required in their
process.”                                                        SEE FULL PROFILE thermalprocessing.com
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CERAMATERIALS

     DELIVERING ELITE SERVICE
     AND COST PERFORMANCE

      Multi-Tiered CFC    CeraMaterials is a global manufacturing,                            mass, and excellent resistance to distortion, CFC is an
Fixture with removable                                                                        ideal material for fixturing.”
      posts engineered
                          distribution and engineering outfit specializing
                                                                                                  CeraMaterials also has a wide range of products for
      by CeraMaterials.   in high-temp refractory materials including:                        atmosphere heat treaters and steel manufacturers, accord-
             (Courtesy:   CFC, graphite insulation, machined graphite,                        ing to Opitz.
         CeraMaterials)
                          ceramic fiber, sintered ceramics, and more.                            “We stock a myriad of refractory brick chemistries
                                                                                              — ceramic blanket, ceramic paper, ceramic modules,

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                                       eraMaterials opened its doors 12 years ago,            ceramic fiber textiles, mortars, and castable mixes” he
                                       and during that time, has become a major               said. “Basically, any material or part inside a furnace,
                                       player for the heat-treat industry. A key              we’re supplying.”
                                        ingredient to that success can be reduced to              Opitz stressed that CeraMaterials is extremely custom-
                          a simple concept: listening.                                        er-centric. “Our primary mission is providing service to
“When a customer             “What we try to do that I think a lot of companies miss,         our customers,” he said.
                          and it’s very basic, is actively listen,” said Jeff Opitz, presi-       CeraMaterials was founded by Dr. Jerry Weinstein, who
  comes to us with
                          dent of CeraMaterials. “When a customer comes to us with            was originally hired to consult with a company making
     a problem or a       a problem or a material request, we’re very intentional              body armor. The company, Ceradyne, was having diffi-
  material request,       about understanding what our customer is asking for, and            culty sourcing some of the raw materials it needed, so it
         we’re very       then rapidly responding with an appropriate solution.”              hired Weinstein to source the material.
                              And that quick response time is crucial to CeraMaterials’           Once Weinstein had found it, he convinced Ceradyne
 intentional about
                          effectiveness and success as well.                                  to allow him to sell the material outright instead of deal-
     understanding           “In many cases we’re dealing with a maintenance man-             ing with consulting fees. And Ceradyne agreed, according
what our customer         ager or production engineer who has equipment down,”                to Opitz.
  is asking for, and      Opitz said. “In the heat-treating business, down time is                In 12 years, however, Opitz points out that
       then rapidly       toxic, so we work fast.”                                            CeraMaterials has become a major player.
                              CeraMaterials offers a full range of products for vacu-            “We have a diverse roster of high-profile ‘household-
   responding with
                          um and protective atmosphere environments.                          name’ customers, government branches, national labs
     an appropriate          “Speaking broadly, we offer any aftermarket compo-               and universities, and have affiliations with most of the
          solution.”      nent utilized in a moly or graphite hot zone — this ranges           big names in the North American heat-treating world;
                          from insulation packages, to heating elements, to hearth            it’s been a decade of growth,” he said.
                          rails and everything in between” he said. “We are also
                          heavily involved with fixturing — the shelves or grids that
                          hold the work. Because of its light weight, low thermal             SEE FULL PROFILE thermalprocessing.com
12   NOVEMBER 2020
GRAPHITE METALLIZING CORPORATION

          SOLVING THE TOUGHEST
          BEARING PROBLEMS

With more than 150 grades of GRAPHALLOY,                        works where traditional bearing materials often fail.             Pillow blocks.
                                                                    Self-lubricating GRAPHALLOY withstands high tem-              (Courtesy:
Graphite Metallizing Corporation is                                                                                               Graphite Metallizing
                                                                peratures, performs well under cryogenic conditions, and
uniquely suited to offer submerged or                           can survive dry running in pumps, according to Ford. It           Corporation)
high-temperature products functioning                           maintains its integrity even when submerged in hostile
where oil, grease, and plastics fail.                           liquids such as acids, alkalies, hydrocarbons, black liquor,
                                                                and natural gas liquids (NGL). GRAPHALLOY can be cus-

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              eavy-industrial machinery is often submitted      tom designed for specific application dimensions and
              to harsh environments capable of damaging         tolerances.
              or destroying equipment and components, as           “When customers come to us with a challenge — which
              well as a company’s bottom line.                  happens every day — they work one-on-one with our engi-
    With that in mind, it is in a company’s best interests to   neers,” he said. “The first thing we do is make sure they
invest in products that can keep equipment performing           understand what GRAPHALLOY is, and what it can do.               “When customers
for a long time.                                                We want to make sure they understand the loads it can
                                                                                                                                  come to us with a
    The experts with Graphite Metallizing Corporation           handle, the speeds, the temperatures — everything — so
(GMC) have been committed to this goal for more than            that it can meet their application, exactly.”                     challenge — which
a hundred years.                                                    GMC has a staff of engineers that are always at the           happens every
    The company has done this by developing a method for        ready to speak with customers about their specific applica-       day — they work
putting molten metal into graphite to create a new mate-        tions, according to Ford.
                                                                                                                                  one-on-one with
rial called GRAPHALLOY, a graphite/metal alloy that is a            The concept of GRAPHALLOY began in 1913 when two
proprietary material with exceptional mechanical, chemi-        engineers developed a method to combine graphite with             our engineers.”
cal, and tribological properties.                               metal to make electrical contacts for elevators, according
   “It’s not an easy process; it’s actually a foundry process   to Ford.
where you impregnate the molten metals into the graph-              And that was a big part of the business until the 1940s,
ite substrate to make it all the way through; it’s a uni-       when GMC began to make the product into bushings form
form product of graphite and metal,” said Eric Ford, vice       and sold to the high-temperature and industrial areas.
president of sales and marketing at Graphite Metallizing           “Over the years, Graphite Metallizing developed addi-
Corporation. “The graphite makes it self-lubricating, so        tional grades of GRAPHALLOY to address new applica-
you don’t need any grease or other lubricants. And the          tions,” Ford said.
metal actually pulls heat away from the shaft.”
    This can become essential for furnaces that operate at
a very high temperature, according to Ford. GRAPHALLOY          SEE FULL PROFILE thermalprocessing.com
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HARROP INDUSTRIES, INC.

 A COMPLETE SERVICE TO
 THE CERAMIC INDUSTRY

  View of electric- and     For more than a hundred years, Harrop                           cation needs of our clients,” he said. “We don’t profess to
     gas-fired kilns for
      development and
                            Industries has designed industrial kilns that                   be a materials research company. We leave that to the
                                                                                            scientists, but we’ve evolved in our designs as we’ve seen
  toll firing. (Courtesy:   can be constructed on-site or delivered pre-
                                                                                            the need of more nontraditional ceramic products being
Harrop Industries, Inc.)    built and installed at its clients’ facilities.                 developed around the country.”
                                                                                                Metal heat-treaters, according to Houseman, are a big

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                                           ndustrial kilns are an important component       part of the industries that Harrop serves.
                                           in the heat-treat industry, so it’s imperative       Harrop doesn’t have a product catalog. The company’s
                                           that they are designed and built to exact        goal is to build to specs exactly what its customers need.
                                           specifications.                                      To help customers accomplish their goals, Harrop
 “We are strictly a             Ceramics is the quintessential building block of many       maintains a 12,000-square-foot developmental and
                            industries, and Harrop Industries, Inc. has been supply-        testing laboratory in its Columbus, Ohio, facility,
  kiln designer and
                            ing kilns and other ceramic products to a wide range of         according to Houseman. This laboratory has about 19
kiln builder for the        areas for more than a century.                                  different types of kilns used for prototyping work and
  ceramic industry.            “We are strictly a kiln designer and kiln builder for        test firings for clients to help them develop the profile
   We want to be a          the ceramic industry,” said Dr. Jim Houseman, CEO of            or the process needed to make products on a commer-
                            Harrop Industries, and the third in the company’s sto-          cial scale.
high-class supplier
                            ried history. “Our primary product line, if you want to             Houseman is quick to point out that Harrop is not
      of application-       call it that, or services, is we’re a design-build contractor   only well-established, but it is consistent and reliable on
    engineered kiln         of industrial kilns for commercially producing ceramic          many levels. It’s been a private company since the begin-
           systems.”        products. We want to be a high-class supplier of applica-       ning, and its roots have been in the same city, but he said
                            tion-engineered kiln systems. We’ve been a supplier to          Harrop’s best accomplishments rest in having satisfied
                            the industry for over 100 years, and we enjoy the part-         clients and repeat business.
                            nerships we’ve developed with established traditional               Harrop Industries began life in 1919 as Carl B. Harrop
                            companies as well as new startups.”                             Engineers when it was founded by Carl Harrop, a profes-
                                The company prides itself in knowing everything pos-        sor in the ceramic engineering department at The Ohio
                            sible about drying and firing ceramics, and Houseman            State University.
                            said that has sparked an organic growth through the
                            years.
                               “Our growth has really come from the different appli-        SEE FULL PROFILE thermalprocessing.com
14   NOVEMBER 2020
INDUSTRIAL HEAT TREATING

          OFFERING HONESTY
          AND EXPERIENCE

Industrial Heat Treating — one of the largest                power generation, musical instruments, food industry,            Industrial Heat
                                                                                                                              Treating’s large
aluminum heat treaters in the New England                    safety and alarm systems, electronics, and many more.
                                                                                                                              capacity aluminum
                                                                 Industrial Heat Treating takes pride in its ability to
area — has been offering commercial heat-                                                                                     furnaces can
                                                             offer quality and service, but Fisher likes to add one more
treating services to a myriad of industries                  item to that list: efficiency.
                                                                                                                              accommodate a wide
                                                                                                                              variety of customer
for more than 75 years.                                         “I know we can get it done faster than a lot of people,       needs. (Courtesy:
                                                             because the guys here have been here so long,” he said.          Shutterstock)

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            ndustrial Heat Treating has been heat treat-         Being located near Boston, Massachusetts, Industrial
            ing metal for decades, and the company is        Heat Treating began its long history in 1942 when they
            packed with experience to make sure jobs         used to aid in building ships for the U.S. Navy. The com-
            are done right, done efficiently, and done       pany set up shop on the Neponset River, which empties           “I know we can get
quickly.                                                     into the Atlantic Ocean. In the beginning, barges would
                                                                                                                              it done faster than
    And Industrial Heat Treating has made quite the          bring the ships’ massive gun barrels in to be treated. And
reputation for being able to tackle just about any job,      since the parts were so large, the company had to treat          a lot of people,
according to Brian Fisher, CEO and CTO of Industrial         the metal using sodium cyanide or potassium cyanide,             because the guys
Heat Treating.                                               according to Fisher.                                             here have been
    Industrial Heat Treating offers a diverse selection of      “If you had a part that you couldn’t get in a furnace,
                                                                                                                              here so long.”
processes to meet today’s growing industry and technol-      you made a bed of this sodium or potassium cyanide, and
ogy. The company’s large capacity aluminum furnaces          you put the metal in it and you just kept turning it,” he
can accommodate a wide variety of customer needs, and        said. “And the reaction made the metal hard.”
it is one of the largest aluminum heat treaters in the           Industrial Heat Treating is a third-generation, family-
New England area.                                            owned and operated business that reaches customers
    The company does a lot of aluminum heat treating         throughout the U.S. The company has continued to build
and has a car bottom furnace for treating big orders of      on that reputation in the decades that followed World
steel such as billets. It has atmospheric furnaces, induc-   War II, and Fisher said since he has taken over the com-
tion furnaces, and vacuum furnaces. Essentially, no part     pany, he has strived to make improvements that will only
is too big or too small for Industrial Heat Treating to      help make the services he offers even more lucrative.
process.
    Industrial Heat Treating’s customer base encompass-
es many industries such as medical, auto, government,        SEE FULL PROFILE thermalprocessing.com
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JOFRA CALIBRATION

     CALIBRATIONS WITH
     QUALITY & REPEATABILITY

     JOFRA is one of the    JOFRA Calibration manufactures and                            To that end, JOFRA is one of the world’s leading manu-
          world’s leading                                                             facturers and developers of calibration instruments for
          manufacturers     develops calibration instruments for
                                                                                      temperature, pressure, and process signals for tempera-
       and developers of    temperature, pressure, and process signals,               ture sensors both from a commercial and a technologi-
calibration instruments
        for temperature,
                            as well as temperature sensors for both                   cal point of view, including the portable dry-block tem-
  pressure, and process     operations and R&D.                                       perature calibrator, which the company invented in the
signals for temperature                                                               1980s.

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     sensors. (Courtesy:           t goes without saying that in order for an             JOFRA’s temperature calibrators can range from
      JOFRA Calibration)           oven to function correctly, it’s crucial that      minus 100 degrees C up to 1,200 degrees C for its high-
                                   it is reaching and maintaining the proper          temperature calibrator, according to Hansen.
                                   temperatures throughout. Without the cor-              JOFRA’s philosophy is basically to ensure its custom-
                      rect temperatures, batches of product could be ruined,          ers achieve consistent quality and avoid downtime,
             “What resulting in lost production, lost time, and — most impor-         according to Hansen. The company also is involved with
                      tantly — lost revenue.                                          customized work when the need arises.
      distinguishes
                          For JOFRA Calibration, being able to supply accurate           As JOFRA heads into the future, Hansen said the com-
     JOFRA is that and repeatable results with ease is what makes the com-            pany continues to invest in the most innovative ways to
  it’s always been pany’s high-precision calibrators an important tool in             serve its customers all around the globe.
 about portability the heat-treat industry.                                             “Heat treat is a very important industry for us,” he
                         “What distinguishes JOFRA is that it’s always been           said. “We are investing in our presence and our ability
  and ease-of-use,
                      about portability and ease-of-use, where the user can           to service our customers. For example, in the U.S., we’ve
where the user can save time,” said Thomas Hansen, vice president of sales            established an ISO 17025 certified calibration labora-
         save time.” and marketing for AMETEK Sensor, Test and Calibration.           tory at our Crystal Engineering facility in California
                     “When you do these calibrations, they can often take             to make sure we can turn around these dry blocks
                      quite a long time. To calibrate a sensor accurately, the cal-   quickly for calibrations or repair. We’ve had that for
                      ibrator has to heat up to different temperatures during         many years in Europe and relied on third-party labora-
                      the calibration, then stabilize and take measurements.          tories in the States, but our users have a preference for
                      When doing this repetitively, it is imperative the process      manufacturer calibration, and we are investing in our
                      is repeatable so you get confidence in the results. What        presence in the American market to provide a higher
                      we incorporate into our instruments is to eliminate the         service level.”
                      human error and any environmental factors, for exam-
                      ple if ambient temperatures vary, combined with speed
                      and accuracy. Time is money to our users.”                      SEE FULL PROFILE thermalprocessing.com
16   NOVEMBER 2020
METAL TREATING INSTITUTE

          ENHANCING THE IMAGE
          OF HEAT TREATERS

MTI strives to fulfill its mission of enhancing               things that we still do today.”                                    FNA, sponsored by
                                                                  Heat treating is often essential, but it also can be com-      MTI, focuses heavily on
the image and value of the heat-treating                                                                                         the technical programs
                                                              plicated and expensive. That’s why one of MTI’s goals is
industry through advocacy, training, and                      to advocate outsourcing jobs to commercial heat treaters
                                                                                                                                 and connecting
                                                                                                                                 attendees to the latest
business intelligence.                                        that are equipped to handle it, instead of attempting to           developments in
                                                              do jobs in-house, according to Morrison.                           technology.

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              eat treating is an important and essential         “When manufacturers have an opportunity to heat                 (Courtesy: MTI)
              part of so many industries that it only made    treat, the question is: Do you heat treat it in-house,
              sense that heat-treaters would see the need     or out of house?” he said. “MTI spends a fair amount of
              to come together to advance their standing      resources in publications and on the web trying to do
and widen their recognition.                                  two things: 1) Educating captives on the benefits of out-
   A group of seven heat treaters did just that when they     sourcing heat treating, due to the fact that heat treating
met in Detroit, Michigan, in 1933 and formed the Metal        is a very capital-intensive environment, with labor, EPA,         “It’s imperative
Treating Institute, more commonly referred to as MTI.         OSHA, and equipment. So, we spend a lot of time try-
                                                                                                                                 that companies try
   Since then, the group has been a driving force in the      ing to educate captives on the benefits of outsourcing
world of heat-treating, helping to enhance the image          the heat treating to a commercial heat treater. And 2)             and figure out how
and the value proposition that heat treaters bring to the     MTI is heavily involved in performing tasks that are               they can automate
marketplace, according to Tom Morrison, CEO of MTI            unproductive for members, such as online technical                 as much of their
Management.                                                   training.”
                                                                                                                                 processes as soon
  “The founding group wanted to be able to do the                 Morrison said that businesses will need to take advan-
things that we do today, which is, they wanted to be          tage of the growing need for the Internet of Things and            as they can.”
able to coordinate their efforts together, and not have       other areas of Industry 4.0.
any of those efforts rely on any one person. Then they           “It’s imperative that companies try and figure out how
are able to share those costs, which is what we call our      they can automate as much of their processes as soon
membership dues,” he said. “The key behind all that is,       as they can,” he said. “Between changes in the market-
since 1933 we’ve got several strategic plans. When you        place and things like the coronavirus, the more you’re
go back to all of them, you see the same thing. Their key     automated, the easier it is to dial back production. When
challenges were with government regulation, healthcare        you’ve got 100 employees, it’s much more difficult to dial
costs, costs of doing business, forecasting the future, and   back than someone with 50 employees or less.”
things like training, and professional development. MTI
was created to be able to do those things effectively and
together, for their members. Those are all the marquee        SEE FULL PROFILE thermalprocessing.com
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NITREX

     OFFERING A WORLD
     OF STRENGTH

   The new UPC control      Having recently ushered in a comprehensive                     product,” he said. “Because most of the time, when cus-
         system based on                                                                   tomers come to us, sometimes it’s to buy a component or
        the Protherm 710    rebranding strategy, Nitrex continues to be
                                                                                           buy a furnace.”
      controller includes   a global partner offering modern nitriding/                        To that end, Nitrex is able to offer its customers services
     chart recording and
      recipe control with
                            nitrocarburizing and vacuum heat-treat                         and products that run the gamut of heat treating, which
  specific programming      solutions, technologies, equipment, and                        include a wide variety of applications, heat-treatment pro-
 for automatic leak test    services.                                                      cesses, and industries. The company’s potential-controlled
  cycles and guaranteed                                                                    gas nitriding and potential-controlled gas nitrocarburiz-
         soak for medical

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                                          itrex, a leading global provider of fully        ing (ferritic nitrocarburizing-FNC) heat-treatment tech-
industry requirements.                    integrated heat-treating solutions and tech-     nologies are applied in the precision parts, automotive,
       (Courtesy: Nitrex)
                                          nologies, has experienced rapid growth and       aerospace, aluminum extrusion tooling, defense, gears,
                                          expansion in its 35 years in the industry, and   tool and die, machinery, and more.
  “It allows us and         with that growth, the company has been able to offer a             With its multiple acquisitions, Nitrex has been able to
                            substantial range of services.                                 expand globally in the U.S., Asia, and in Europe, and with
  our people to go
                               With all that it has to offer, Nitrex CEO Jean-Francois     the addition of G-M Enterprises, Nitrex has been able to
beyond selling the          Cloutier essentially defines the company as a “solutions       grow stronger in the aerospace sector, as well as MIM, 3D
 product. Because           provider.”                                                     printing, and defense.
  most of the time,             It might be a simple phrase, but what Nitrex has accom-       As Nitrex continues under its newly branded portfolio,
                            plished is anything but as it rolls out efforts designed to    the CEO said he sees the need to continue to keep a close
  when customers
                            present itself under one brand.                                eye on what the OEMs are doing since heat-treating is a
         come to us,          “It was mainly to support the growth, and where we           larger part of the supply chain. That will more than likely
 sometimes it’s to          want to go,” Cloutier said. “Because we want to keep grow-     involve more digital implementation and the Internet of
 buy a component            ing.”                                                          Things, according to Cloutier.
 or buy a furnace.”             Now, the company’s various brands will operate under         “When it comes to supply chain improvements and
                            one umbrella company. Along with Nitrex, the new brand         increased velocity in the supply chain, companies are
                            will include UPC-Marathon, but legally operating as            connecting their assets and trying to make their equip-
                            United Process Controls, and G-M Enterprises, which is the     ment more intelligent so they can better predict main-
                            newest addition to the Nitrex Turnkey Systems portfolio.       tenance, avoiding disruptions, and improving efficiency
                                Cloutier stressed that these three divisions help the      of those assets,” he said.
                            company stand out among others in the heat-treating
                            industry.
                              “It allows us and our people to go beyond selling the        SEE FULL PROFILE thermalprocessing.com
18   NOVEMBER 2020
TAYLOR-WINFIELD

       ‘OUR CUSTOMERS’ SUCCESS
        IS OUR SUCCESS’

As an original equipment manufacturer                       treating needs, according to Marketing Manager Katie       Induction coil being
                                                            Denno.                                                     used in TWT’s R & D
of automated assembly systems, welding
                                                              “For example, our heat-treating solutions might piggy- lab for testing & proof
machines, induction heating power                           back on a resistance welding system or a linear-friction
                                                                                                                       of concept. (Courtesy:
                                                                                                                       Taylor-Winfield)
supplies, and more, Taylor-Winfield                         welding system,” she said. “Our customers come to us for
brings more than a century of machine design                our expertise in many material joining applications com-
and process solution experience                             bined with our heat-treatment products and machines
                                                            to achieve their parts-production goals.”
to its customers worldwide.                                    Taylor-Winfield’s goal is to offer the customer a full-
                                                            service manufacturing solution, according to Denno.

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             hile watching a movie, most people don’t           Sitting down with the customer and finding out
             give a second thought to the hundreds of       exactly what they want to accomplish is important, but
             companies and technicians who worked           finding innovative ways to conquer the challenge is key, “Our customers
             tirelessly behind the camera to turn Chris     according to Neiss.
                                                                                                                       come to us for our
Evans into Captain America.                                    And then there is Taylor-Winfield’s innovative inroads
   The same can be said for the expertise and technology    into predictive maintenance or smart manufacturing — expertise in many
that Taylor-Winfield brings to a wide range of products     interpreting the data from either an automated system      material joining
through its heat-treating capabilities.                     or stand-alone machine, according to Rhein.                applications
  “You could walk through a company like Lowe’s or             The traceability of parts becomes paramount
                                                                                                                       combined with our
Home Depot, and you will walk by a dozen or more prod-      within certain industries, particularly aerospace and
ucts that have been made on our systems, but they’re        automotive.                                                heat-treatment
marketed under names like GE, Whirlpool, or Stanley            And that data can run the gamut depending on what       products and
Black & Decker,” said Blake Rhein, Taylor-Winfield’s vice   the customer needs, according to Rhein.                    machines to
president of sales and marketing. “You’ll never see our          “The data, the quality assurance, the repeatability, achieve their
name, but we’re behind the scenes to help our customers     and the access to having all that information at your fin-
                                                                                                                       parts-production
succeed in their markets.”                                  gertips is really important to our customers,” Denno said.
   Those products and services include induction power          In an industry where materials are constantly evolv- goals.”
supplies, coils, turnkey systems, rebuilds, spares, and     ing and changing, Taylor-Winfield’s experts are up to the
lab services, according to Ryan Neiss, Taylor-Winfield’s    challenge to literally keep things moving, Denno said.
induction heating product manager.
   Many of Taylor-Winfield’s customers are looking to
integrate their material-joining needs with their heat-     SEE FULL PROFILE thermalprocessing.com
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2021
     BUYER’S GUIDE
       21            HEAT TREATERS                                   46          MARKETPLACE

       36            EQUIPMENT                                       56          SERVICES

        COMMUNITY STOREFRONT ///
        In the following company listings, the special shaded boxes around some listings denote a company that
        participates in our ThermalProcessing.com community storefront. You can visit the community page on
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20   NOVEMBER 2020
COMMERCIAL HEAT TREATERS ///
                                                                    Bodycote Vernon
  ALABAMA ///                       Refrac Systems
                                    7201 West Oakland Street
                                                                    2900 South Sunol Drive
  Advanced Heat Treat Corporation                                   Vernon, CA 90058
                                    Chandler, AZ 85226
  1545 County Road 222              800-473-3722                    323-264-0111
                                    www.refrac.com                  www.bodycote.com
  Cullman, AL 35057
  256-739-2775                                                      Bodycote Westminster
  www.ahtweb.com                                                    7474 Garden Grove Road
                                    ARKANSAS                        Westminster, CA 92683
  Bodycote Athens
                                    Bodycote K-Tech                 714-893-6561
  105 West Sanderfer Road
                                    111 K-Tech Lane                 www.bodycote.com
  Athens, AL 35611
                                    Hot Springs, AR 71913
  256-233-1147                                                      Burbank Steel Treating Inc
  www.bodycote.com                  501-760-1696
                                                                    415 South Varney Street
                                    www.bodycote.com
                                                                    Burbank, CA 91502
  Pinson Valley Heat Treating       Coleman Heat Treating           818-842-0975
  6179 Sunrise Drive                2500 West Main Street           www.burbanksteel.com
  Pinson, AL 35126                  Jacksonville, AR 72076
  205-681-8595                      501-982-3148                    Byington Steel Treating Inc
  www.pvht.com                      www.colemanheattreating.com     415 South Varney Street
                                                                    Santa Clara, CA 95050
  Rex Heat Treat                    Parker Trutec - MMI Inc
                                                                    408-727-6630
  3008 Red Morris Parkway           2609 North 12th Avenue
                                                                    www.byingtonsteel.com
  Anniston, AL 36207                Paragould, AR 72450
  256-835-3370                      870-236-6920                    California Brazing
  www.rexht.com                     www.parkertrutec.com            37955 Central Court
                                                                    Newark, CA 94560
                                                                    510-790-2300
  ARIZONA                           CALIFORNIA                      www.californiabrazing.com
  Axian Technology                  Accurate Steel Treating         Certified Metal Craft Inc
  21622 North 14th Avenue           10008 Miller Way                877 Vernon Way
  Phoenix, AZ 85027                 South Gate, CA 90280            El Cajon, CA 92020
  800-466-3131                      800-622-4328                    619-593-3636
  www.axiantech.com                 www.accuratesteeltreating.com   www.certifiedmetalcraft.com
  Controlled Thermal Technology     Bodycote Fremont                Continental Heat Treating Inc
  2617 West Cypress Street          4240 Technology Drive           10643 South Norwalk Boulevard
  Phoenix, AZ 85009                 Fremont, CA 94538               Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
  602-272-3714                      510-492-4200                    800-622-6624
  www.cttaz.com                     www.bodycote.com                www.continentalht.com
  Die-Bond LLC                      Bodycote Huntington Park        Cook Induction Heating Company
  6141 West Erie Street             3370 Benedict Way               4925 East Slauson Avenue
  Chandler, AZ 85226                Huntington Park, CA 90255       Maywood, CA 90270
  480-940-0024                      323-583-1231                    323-560-1327
  www.die-bond.com                  www.bodycote.com                www.cookinduction.com
                                    Bodycote Rancho Domiguez        Delta Heat Treating
  F & B Mfg LLC
                                    515 West Apra Street
  4245 North 40th Avenue                                            4925 East Slauson Avenue
                                    Rancho Dominguez, CA 90220
  Phoenix, AZ 85019                                                 Huntington Beach, CA 92649
                                    310-604-8000
  602-272-3900                                                      714-890-4893
                                    www.bodycote.com
  www.fbmfg.com                                                     www.deltaht.com
                                    Bodycote Santa Fe
  Phoenix Heat Treating Inc                                         Galaxy Brazing Company Inc
                                    Springs - Romandel
  2405 West Mohave                                                  10015 Freeman Ave
                                    9921 Romandel Avenue
  Phoenix, AZ 85009                 Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670      Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
  602-258-7751                      562-946-1717                    562-946-9039
  www.phoenix-heat-treating.com     www.bodycote.com                www.galaxybrazing.com

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