Metal Treating Institute CEO, Tom Morrison, talks with Heat Treat Today’s Doug Glenn about 2018’s largest heat treat event, Furnaces North America, which will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, from October 8-10, 2018. Find out why manufacturers with in-house heat treat shops should not only attend FNA 2018, but why they should send the entire team to this once-every-two-year event. And when you come to the end of the podcast, click over to Heat Treat TV to see a recently released FNA 2018 promotional video that will whet your appetite for the event.

What would the Australian Ministry of Defense have to do with heat treating in Southern California? Karen Stanton, Director–Corporate & Strategy of Heat Treatment Australia (HTA), explains how a growing Australian aerospace and defense market propelled HTA’s launch of their first non-Australian heat treating shop, which is today located in Sante Fe Springs, California, within a reasonable distance of customers and suppliers alike.

In this conversation, Heat Treat Radio host, Doug Glenn, interviews John Hubbard, longtime CEO of Bodycote who retired in 2009 and has recently re-entered the market with an aggressive capital investment company located in Baltimore, Maryland. This 20-minute Heat Treat Radio interview gives you all the important news about what Mr. Hubbard and the Calvert Street Capital Partners (CSCP) are planning. To date, CSCP, under the leadership of Mr. Hubbard, have snagged top talent from the industry, including Mike Sobieski and Don Longenette, and are actively pursuing the acquisition of well-established and profitable commercial heat treat across North America. Our aerospace, automotive, medical, and energy manufacturers with in-house heat treats will find it encouraging to hear what John has to offer.

In this conversation, Heat Treat Radio host, Doug Glenn, interviews Peter Hushek about Virtual Visual Surveys, a new 3D software that will help minimize temperature uniformity survey failures. Listen to Peter’s description of how this innovative new tool can help aerospace heat treaters know what’s going on inside the furnace during a TUS.

In this conversation, Heat Treat Radio host, Doug Glenn, interviews Shaymus Hudson from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to discuss interesting new developments at MIT as well as his roots and experience in the metals and heat treat industry.

By Doug Glenn, Publisher of Heat Treat Today One of the great privileges of being the publisher of an industry publication is meeting many outstanding people. Some are exceptionally wealthy, […]

Why has it proven so difficult for other philanthropists to follow Hank Rowan’s lead? In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a university in New Jersey, an […]