Finding heat treat related equipment and services has never been easier than with the Heat Treat Buyers Guide. Karen Gantzer, senior editor/associate publisher of Heat Treat Today, describes what this one-of-a-kind, searchable resource can do for you.
This article first appeared in Heat Treat Today's June 2022 Heat Treat Buyers Guide print edition. Feel free to contact Karen Gantzer at karen@heattreattoday.com if you have a question, comment, or any editorial contribution you’d like to submit.
Senior Editor/Associate Publisher
Heat Treat Todayy
Welcome to the second edition of the Heat Treat Buyers Guide. We are excited for you to experience this new edition with additional valuable resources. Here’s how you can get the most out of this resource: The Heat Treat Buyers Guide is divided into three major sections.
Alphabetic Supplier Listing
The first section, from pages 13-23, contains an alphabetic listing of all the suppliers of heat treating equipment and related services in the North American heat treat marketplace. You’ll notice that some of the companies listed in this section have a red star before their name. These are the advertisers who make this guide possible. Please lend your support to these industry-leading companies when it comes to purchasing.
Other companies have a boldface listing along with their company logo, but no red star. These are our Gold Level suppliers who have paid extra to be in the online version. These companies are also worthy of your serious consideration.
Those companies without a red star, no logo, and no blue asterisk are what we call our Basic Level companies. They’ve also contributed a nominal yearly amount to be listed in the online and print versions of this buyers guide. These companies should be considered, too.
There are still other companies who have not yet completed their online listing and therefore have relatively little information in the print edition. You’ll be able to recognize these companies because they have a blue asterisk (*) next to their name. More and more of these companies are signing up daily, so our suggestion is to check our website for the latest information about these companies OR go directly to these companies’ websites, which are listed along with their company names in this first section.
Heat Treat Equipment and Related Services
The second major section of this buyers guide is an exhaustive listing of heat treat equipment and related services. There is a comprehensive index of these services listed between pages 24 and 26. This is a good place to start your search.
Immediately after the Index of Equipment & Related Services are six sub-categories with hundreds of products and companies who provide them. The six sub-categories are: 1) Heat Treat Furnaces, Ovens & Induction Equipment, 2) Heat Treat Components, Supplies & Materials, 3) Heat Treat Controls, Instrumentation & Sensors, 4) Heat Treat Auxiliary, Sub-Systems, Ancillary Equipment & Services, 5) Heat Treat Lab, Testing, & Materials Characterization Equipment, and 6) Heat Treat Gases & Atmosphere Generation Equipment. There are too many products and services to reproduce here, but you can see them all on pages 28-71.
Alphabetic Commercial Heat Treater Listing
The third and final section of the Heat Treat Buyers Guide runs from pages 76 to 91 and includes an alphabetic listing of commercial heat treaters as well as the two new sections highlighting the services and processes they perform. If you’re looking for a company to perform heat treating on a product your company makes, this is a good place to start.
A final thought. If you are a supplier of heat treating equipment or related services OR if you are a commercial heat treater and you are NOT listed in this directory, there is a quick and easy remedy. All you must do is go to www.heattreatbuyersguide.com and search for your company’s name. If you are there, all you need to do is “claim” your listing. If you are not there, you can easily create a listing for your company in less than 15 minutes. If you have any trouble, please feel free to contact us at buyers_guide@heattreattoday.com with any questions. We’ll respond as quickly as possible.
Find heat treating products and services when you search on Heat Treat Buyers Guide.com
