May - The Monty Heat Treat News

Heat Treat News
Largest North American Furnace Builders. It dates all the way back to 2007
when we put together a list of the largest furnace builders in North America which
means we are long overdue to update the list. When talking about the largest
builders we based this upon several criteria. First the ranking is in terms of annual
sales. Second this is firms which concentrate on the heat treating industry as
opposed to the steel industry or kilns. So for the purposes of this report we are
looking at builders who would typically supply batch IQ furnaces,
vacuum furnaces, pushers, cast and mesh belt lines, aluminum
furnaces and rotary hearths. The most difficult part of our task is
due to the fact that almost without exception all of these
companies are privately owned and reluctant to share sales
figures. However heat treaters are generally a very open bunch
and at the end of the day almost 75% responded with sales figures
of which probably half gave their permission to print their sales,
with the other half providing figures only as a reference point for
our list. Obviously this is the "honor" system but hey if you can't
trust a furnace builder who can you trust? I will say the comments
and guidance was much appreciated. Without further ado; May
1/2013
1) Ipsen/Rockford, IL. It comes as no surprise to us that Ipsen,
either the largest or second largest furnace builder in the world
would be #1 on our list based upon their sales and manufacturing
in North America. Based in Rockford, IL sources told us that annual
sales in 2012 were $90 to $100 million USD which is only Ipsen
USA and excludes all other global Ipsen companies–some of which
export into the USA. http://www.ipsenusa.com/index.php
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2) AFC-Holcroft/Wixom, Michigan. To get a feel for AFC-Holcroft we went to the
President and CEO, Mr. Bill Disler who provided us with this very concise answer
about the company.