Heat Treat Today offers News Chatter, a feature highlighting representative moves, transactions, and kudos from around the industry. Enjoy these 12 news bites that will help you stay up to date on all things heat treat.
Equipment Chatter
- National Test Pty Ltd. (NDT) has been contracted by AusGroup Ltd. to provide NDT and heat treatment services on 58 stainless steel and carbon steel tanks for the covalent lithium refinery in Kwinana in Australia.
- thyssenkrupp Electrical Steel supplied transformer specialist SGB-SMIT with CO2-reduced electrical steel for E.ON’s new digital stations.
Personnel/Company Chatter
- Braddock Metallurgical, Inc. is proud to announce the addition of a new operations manager at their Bridgewater facility. Jeff Asselta has over 15 years of experience working in the heat treating and metallurgical industry in various roles including quality and operations. They are excited to have Jeff join their team. They are also proud to announce Stanley Lopacinski as the new general manager in Bridgewater.
- Advanced Heat Treat Corp. announced the promotion of Kody Kottke to plant manager at its MidPort Blvd. location in Waterloo, Iowa.
- Bob Brock has transitioned to be the sales engineer at AFC-Holcroft. He will continue to serve the company as Modular Products.
- Hubbard-Hall has added Jason Potts as the product manager in their Technical Department. He will be a technical resource for customers.
- Friedr. Lohmann GmbH, Germany announced that Marco Möser is the new sales director of North America. Möser will be responsible for developing new business and supporting the sales team.
- Thomas Pfingstler of Atlas Pressed Metals in DuBois, PA has been appointed to be the president of the Center for Powder Metallurgy Technology, succeeding Arthur (Bud) Jones, Symmco, Inc.
- Douglass R. Brown, president of Inductoheat, to retire after 42 years in the induction heating industry. Doug’s contributions to the Inductotherm Group include 14 years as president/COO of Inductoheat, 2 years as president of Alpha 1, and 15 years as technology manager of Group Forging.
Kudos Chatter
- In 2021, SECO/WARWICK received six awards: “Reliable Employer of the Year,” “Innovation Leader,” “Business Leader,” an international award for the Best Economic Expansion on the North-American Market as well as “Safety Laurel,” and the title “Employer — Creator of Safe Jobs.”
- Thomas Wingens of WINGENS LLC – International Industry Consultancy received ASM International’s HTS Prime Contributor Recognition award for his paper presented at the 2021 Heat Treat Show.
- The Nitrex Heat Treating Services (HTS) facility in Franklin, Indiana, received the Nadcap accreditation for the following processes: heat treating for multiple alloy families, stress relieving, carburizing, nitriding, vacuum heat treating, hardness and metallography.
Heat Treat Today is pleased to join in the announcements of growth and achievement throughout the industry by highlighting them here on our News Chatter page. Please send any information you feel may be of interest to manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments especially in the aerospace, automotive, medical, and energy sectors to bethany@heattreattoday.com.
