Heat Treat Today offers News Chatter, a feature highlighting representative moves, transactions, and kudos from around the industry.
Equipment Chatter
- Vacuum and Atmosphere Services (VAS) Ltd., located in the UK, sold a refurbished Ipsen VVFC 60×60.
- Graphalloy announces their new Graphalloy® Pillow Block and Flange Block Catalog for high temperature applications.
- Heat Treating Services Unlimited, Inc. (HTSU) deployed C3 Data technology to heat treat customers across the United States.
Personnel Chatter
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Alder Moldenhauer, President of Vectorr Industries, an outside sales representative to AFC-Holcroft AFC-Holcroft announced the addition of Vectorr Industries to their outside sales representative network. Located in Buffalo, New York, Vectorr Industries will support AFC-Holcroft customers within Western New York, Oregon, Washington, and Canada (excluding Ontario). Adler Moldenhauer is president of the company.
- Tom Hart returned to SECO/Vacuum to Product Manager, Vacuum Furnaces, having previously worked at the team as a sales engineer.
- Super Systems Inc. announced the movement within the company: Jim Oakes from Vice President of Business Development to President; Bob Fincken to Vice President of Sales for North America; and Steve Thompson, Super Systems President, is moving to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
- Andy Martin joins Sales Team at Graphite Metallizing and will be responsible for Australia and New Zealand markets.
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Tom Hart, Product Manager, SECO/VACUUM Nitrex welcomes Ali Emre Akgunes as its new manufacturer representative in Romania and Turkey. Akgunes brings decades of experience in sales and business development to his new role at Nitrex, where he will lead sales initiatives and guide new business growth for Nitrex and member companies G-M Enterprises and UPC-Marathon.
- Solar Manufacturing announced that Aaron Ackerman of Met-Pro, Inc. will assume the role of Sales Representative for Michigan.
- Hubbard-Hall Inc. announced the promotion of Ted Saltzman to Business Development Manager and the hiring of Andre Depew as Product Manager of Metal Coloring.
Company Chatter
- Peters’ Heat Treating grows its plant operation, moving its headquarters into a newly expanded Meadville, Pennsylvania facility. Read more.
- Nitrex Heat Treating Services continues its expansion program at their Aurora, Illinois commercial heat treat facility, located just west of Chicago. Read more.
- Solar Atmospheres reaffirms their commitment to safety with new safety features, particularly for calibrations, being implemented to all existing furnaces.
- Nitrex announces that they are in Phase II of the Polish facility expansion, indicating that they are on schedule with the foundation complete and framing underway. This expansion will add 21,500 square feet (over 2000 m2) of new space to the existing building, which will double production capacity and support future growth. The expansion project is expected to be complete in Q1 2021.
- Kittyhawk Products OR LLC completed the installation of another hot isostatic press with a working zone of 46” x 100".
(photo source: Peters' Heat Treating, Inc.)
Kudos Chatter
- The US Air Force and Boeing X-37B autonomous spaceplane has won the Robert J. Collier Trophy for the greatest American achievements in aeronautics and astronautics of 2019.
- The Grieve Corporation launched an updated website featuring a user-friendly catalogue and ordering system among other new features and enhancements to existing capabilities.
Heat Treat Today is pleased to join in the announcements of growth and achievement throughout the industry by highlighting them here on our News Chatter page. Please send any information you feel may be of interest to manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments especially in the aerospace, automotive, medical, and energy sectors to editor@heattreattoday.com
