April - The Monty Heat Treat News
April - The Monty Heat Treat News
April - The Monty Heat Treat News
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Monday Morning Briefing. Where are they now- Clayton Pinkos. Now here is a<br />
well known fellow in the US heat treating industry, Clayton Pinkos who has worked<br />
on both the captive and commercial side of things-most recently at auto parts<br />
supplier and captive heat treater GKN Driveline in Mebane, NC. Clayton has<br />
moved on and is now running the heat treating department at Baldor Electric in<br />
Tennessee. Jim McNeal Managing Recruiter of International Search Partners, an<br />
Executive Search firm based in La Mesa, Ca. which concentrates on the heat<br />
treating industry will again be deploying to the Middle East. Jim is a Captain in the<br />
US Reserves and was recently nominated for Promotion to the rank of Rear Admiral<br />
Lower Half. Auto parts maker and captive heat treater Sona BLW Precision Forge<br />
in Selma, NC who provide components for rear wheel drive vehicles recently<br />
suffered a reasonably serious fire in their heat treating department. <strong>The</strong> plant is<br />
located at 500 Oak Tree Drive in Selma and while we don't know all the details<br />
some of the equipment will certainly have to be replaced. Commercial heat treater<br />
TTI (part of the Aalberts Group) in Letchworth, UK is looking forward to<br />
receiving their brand new TAV 10 bar vacuum furnace (more about this plant later<br />
this week). RUBIG GmbH & Co. KG in Wels, Austria who is possibly the largest<br />
supplier of Plasma Nitriding systems around recently landed an order from a UK<br />
company for a new Plasma unit.<br />
Dave Stanton another well known fellow in the US heat treating industry recently<br />
left captive heat treater Rexnord for commercial heat treater IBC Coating<br />
Technologies Inc., in Lebanon, Indiana. IBC Coating is a medium sized<br />
commercial shop which offers top end processing such as vacuum carburizing, PVD<br />
Coatings, Plasma Nitriding and Vacuum heat treating to name a few. And to round<br />
things out we see that Wisconsin Oven had a record breaking 2012 and in<br />
consequence is opening a new facility. <strong>The</strong> abbreviated announcement is below and<br />
the full press release can be found at http://news.mywalworthcounty.com/?p=3745<br />
"Wisconsin Oven Corporation, which has long been known as one of East Troy’s<br />
biggest and most revered companies, will soon be expanding its brand in the Dairy<br />
State. On the heels of a recent sale to PLC Group of France in <strong>April</strong>, Wisconsin Oven<br />
announced plans last week to open another plant in Waukesha, adding about 20<br />
new jobs. Dave Strand, President and CEO of Wisconsin Oven Corporation, said the<br />
move is a result of record sales for the company in 2012. “We have a need for<br />
immediate space due to backlog and what East Troy had available wasn’t going to<br />
meet our needs,” Strand said. Wisconsin Oven will open up shop in an existing<br />
30,000-square-foot facility on Pewaukee Road in about two weeks". March 11/2013<br />
www.themonty.com<br />
Wirco/Salloy. One of the best known suppliers of fabrications and castings of high<br />
temperature furnace components has just purchased another supplier in the<br />
industry, Salloy in Simpsonville, SC, USA. In the picture below we see on the left<br />
Sal Postich of Salloy and Chris Dankert of Wirco. March 11/2013
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