Class of 2019 40 Under 40

Heat Treat Today is privileged to oversee the 40 Under 40 recognition awards highlighting a group of young, up-and-coming talent in the North American heat treat industry every year. This year’s Class of 2019 is no disappointment–a group of industry elite, significant contributors to the heat treat market.

Every couple of weeks we highlight two of the current class of recipients. This week we introduce Uwe Rahn of Rubig USA and Mike Harrison of Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems.

Name: Uwe Rahn

Company: Rubig USA

Position: Area Sales Manager for US and Canada

Uwe has been in the heat treat world for his whole career, starting in Austria and continuing when he moved to the U.S. on a business visa. In the States, he learned the language and continued to become an expert in nitriding.  He currently leads the U.S. team selling and servicing gas and plasma nitriders as well as plasma coating systems.

Nominated by: Mountain Rep

Name: Mike Harrison

Company: Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems

Position: Metallurgist, General Manager, Engineering Manager

From starting as a metallurgist with a large tier 1 supplier, to running a commercial heat treat plant with a large commercial heat treater, Mike has developed a wide range of experience in the heat treating industry. He is now on the OEM side making a difference in equipment design for our customers. During Mike’s past employment he has helped implement a global ERP system across multiple facilities in multiple countries and has led the charge in launching a brownfield facility, changing it over as a facility for conventional heat treating processes to highly technical precision nitriding processes. Within the company, Mike has standardized capital quoting processes for higher accuracy and efficiency and is now doing the same for the engineering department. Instrumental in the development of Gasbarre’s precision nitriding equipment, he is able to ensure the end user’s daily interaction with the equipment is accounted for in the design. Mike completed his MBA from Walsh College in 2017 and the MTI YES program in 2019; he presented on “Furnaces for Gas Nitriding and Nitrocarburizing” at the 2018 FNA show.

Nominated by: Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems

Read more about the feature at Heat Treat Today’s 40 Under 40 resource page and find out more about each of this year’s winners by clicking on their image. To nominate someone for the Class of 2020 40 Under 40, please click here.