Heat Treat Today offers News Chatter, a feature highlighting representative moves, transactions, and kudos from around the industry. Enjoy these 34 news items, originally featured in the November and December print magazines.
Equipment Chatter
- UPC-Marathon, a Nitrex company, commissioned an endothermic gas generator for a major automotive manufacturer in Brazil.
- SECO/WARWICK will supply a Vector® vacuum furnace to a South American international manufacturer of weapons and military equipment.
- Stahl Gerlafingen ordered from Danieli a K-Weld machine as well as a 2-MW Automation Q-Heat-system.
- NITREX has installed a second set of nitriding/nitrocarburizing systems for a European hydraulics manufacturer.
- An AQUAVAIRE Q3300H furnace from Algas-SDI is ready for shipment. This equipment is a gas-fired water bath vaporizer that converts liquefied petroleum gas into superheated vapor at a balanced pressure.
- A vertical vacuum furnace from SECO/ WARWICK is heading to a company that provides repair and maintenance services for jet engines.
- Turkish heat treater Reymak Makine As has integrated a Nitrex nitriding/ nitrocarburizing system.
- Tratamientos Termicos Avanzados (TTA), a leader in plasma nitriding services for steel, recently received their first vacuum furnace from Ipsen. The Turbo2 Treater was shipped to their facility located in Monterrey, Mexico.
Company and Personnel Chatter
- SAMPE North America announced LaNetra Clayton Tate, Ph.D. as the new vice president; Sarah Cox as the new president; and Daren Davis as the new secretary for the 2023–2024 term.
- Donald Crist has been promoted to director of Global Sales at RoMan Manufacturing, Inc.
- AFC-Holcroft announced a partnership with Sanken Sangyo, a Japan-based company in the thermal processing equipment industry
- Partners Outokumpu and SMS group GmbH inaugurated a metal powder atomization plant in the presence of Minister President Hendrik Wüst.
- Turgay Ozan started his new additional role as the president and regional manager of Pfeiffer Vacuum in North America.
- Vamshi Vardhan Rapole has joined Danieli Group as a graduate engineer trainee.
- Sheffield Forgemasters appointed Amy Grey as the chief financial officer.
- Michel Siemon has been appointed CEO of Primobius, the lithium-ion battery recycling joint venture between SMS group GmbH and Neometals Ltd.
- Bobbi Warren has been promoted to chief financial officer at RoMan Manufacturing, Inc.
- Sheffield Forgemasters has announced the signing of a five-year contract renewal with Harsco Environmental.
- SMS group GmbH and Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) have joined forces in a memorandum of understanding aimed at decarbonizing steel production in SAIL’s integrated steel plants.
- Mark Przybylski started a new position as material handler of Manufacturing at Retech, a SECO/WARWICK Company.
- SMS group GmbH welcomed Orascom Construction PLC to conclude the agreement signing of an alliance to help with future projects.
- Thermal-Vac Arizona has announced the opening of a new Chino Valley, CA, shop for brazing, heat treating, testing, and machining services.
- Hydro is set to install solar power at its extrusion factories in Sweden.
- Mark Hemsath becomes the new president of Nitrex Turnkey Systems.
- Joseph Scala of Leybold USA, Inc. wins Lifetime Achievement award for outstanding lifetime philanthropy after being named regional sales manager of VTS-Midwest for Leybold.
- Nitrex and Linde renewed heat treating-focused joint marketing agreement and expansion into Europe.
Kudos Chatter
- The GTS Mexico team completed a successful ISO/IEC 17025 audit with their accrediting entity.
- The Driven to Reach Excellence and Academic Achievement for Males (DREAAM) program in Champaign, Illinois, toured Wirco, Inc.’s Champaign, Illinois, foundry.
- SAMPE North America Board of Directors announced that Tim Shaughnessy, president and CEO of Rapid Cure Technologies, has been selected as the SAMPE 2023 Distinguished Service Award recipient. They also announced that Dr. Scott Beckwith, a renowned expert in the field of Materials Science, has been named the recipient of the prestigious Mort Kushner Lifetime Achievement Award.
- After a 25-year career, Paulo’s heat treat manager in Murfreesboro, TN, Dave Lee, has retired.
- Dan Essenmacher retired from AFC-Holcroft after 28 years with the company.
- Paulo celebrates 80 years of heat treating history.
- Bill Gasbarre, co-founder of Gasbarre Products, Inc., retired after 50 years.
- Ipsen celebrates 75 years in Cherry Valley, IL, with a ceremony emceed by Heat Treat Today publisher, Doug Glenn.
