Heat Treat Today offers News Chatter, a feature highlighting representative moves, transactions, and kudos from around the industry. Enjoy these 10 news items, featuring a multi-million dollar expansion, furnace additions, a 1,000,000 load milestone, and more!
Equipment & Company
1. NUTEC Bickley will deliver a four-car shuttle kiln to a global leader in energy technologies. The gas-fired shuttle kiln will typically operate up to 2012°F (1100°C) and employs a twin-deck kiln car setting.
2. Century Aluminum will invest $50 million into restarting a South Carolina smelter. 50,000mt of idled production is intended to be revitalized through the restart.
3. HT-MX Heat Treatment has added nitriding to one of their comprehensive Nadcap scope, including carbon steels, stainless steels, nickel alloys, aluminum, lab services, HIPing, and more.
Personnel
4. Quaker Houghton welcomed Dr. Arisbeth Rodwick to the Quaker Houghton team as the senior product application manager (PAM) of Heat Treatment and Forging, effective July 14, 2025.
5. Tom Hart has been promoted to director of sales for North America at SECO/WARWICK, USA. Tom’s promotion comes at a pivotal time, as SECO/WARWICK consolidates its U.S. operations.
6. Kevin Stein Joins Hubbard-Hall as the director of Sales & Business Development. Stein succeeds Jeff Davis, who will retire at the end of October after 42 years with Hubbard-Hall.
Kudos
7. AHT President, Mikel Woods, celebrated his 20th work anniversary this month.
8. ECM USA celebrated a 1,000,000 load milestone with one of their automotive parts manufacturing customers. 20 years ago their ECM FLEX vacuum furnace systems started processing loads 24/7 — recently surpassing 1,000,000 loads.
9. SuperSystems celebrated 30 years as a company.
10. Tenova has been awarded the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for a Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) pilot plant — a key element of the NeoSmelt project, which aims to develop a groundbreaking low-emission ironmaking facility.
