Atlantic Heat Treat is a full-service commercial heat treater serving the Mid-Atlantic region and other parts of the eastern United States. We add value to a wide variety of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, as well as glass, refractory and polymeric materials. We serve an array of industries, including manufacturing, chemical, construction, defense, power generation, and more. Our customers include machinists, fabricators, foundries, stampers, cutters, distributors, and others.
AHT consists of the merged operation of two companies: Industrial Metal Treating and Baltimore Heat Treat. Industrial Metal Treating commenced heat treating operations in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1964, and relocated in 1984 to the current AHT facility on the Riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware. Baltimore Heat Treat operated in Brooklyn Park, Maryland from 1965 to 2013, at which time its operations were merged into our Wilmington facility. The combination gives AHT the critical mass and flexibility to compete effectively in today’s complex manufacturing environment.
Our 35,000 square-foot facility was built about 1912 as the iron foundry for the Pusey & Jones shipyard. The 330-ft long, 45-ft high structure with powerful overhead cranes once permitted the placement of large cast parts directly onto ships on the river now nicely facilitates the movement of heat treating work among our 25+ furnaces, as well as our blasting rooms and ancillary equipment.
Atlantic Heat Treat was incorporated in 1962. By 1964, under the name Industrial Metal Treating, owners Al Carnevale, Les Chaundy and Gaylord Smith established heat treating operations in a 10,000-sf factory in Westchester, Pennsylvania.
In 1984, under co-founder Al Carnevale, the company relocated to its current 34,000-sf facility, a former shipyard foundry, on the riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware. To help serve high demand for heat treating of piping systems for the E. I. DuPont Nemours Company and its suppliers, AHT added its 22-ft carbottom furnace and 30-ton gantry crane. Pickup and delivery services were expanded to continue to serve Pennsylvania customers in addition to those in the new location. Controlled-atmosphere integral-quench furnaces replaced the older salt-pot line, and eventually vacuum and induction heat treating, nitriding and other specialized services were added.
With Al Carnevale’s passing in 2002, leadership of the company passed to Chris Schopfer. He digitized operations, modernized quality systems, and standardized process controls with Honeywell instrumentation. Over the course of a decade of intense drawdown of regional manufacturing, AHT gradually drew down its three-shift operations to a single extended shift.
In 2009, AHT purchased the heat treating equipment of the shuttered Newark, Delaware Chrysler automotive plant. The equipment bolstered AHT’s tool and stainless steel heat treating capabilities. In 2013, AHT acquired the assets of Baltimore Heat Treat of Brooklyn, Maryland. Services for Baltimore customers were consolidated into our facility in Wilmington, Delaware. Following that expansion, several high-uniformity temper furnaces were acquired to meet exacting specifications.
During the pandemic of 2020-21, AHT refurbished several major furnace systems, added SCADA remote operations capaplities and upgraded its Honeywell instrumentation to next-generation networked devices.
Atlantic Heat Treat is a full-service commercial heat treater serving the Mid-Atlantic region and other parts of the eastern United States.
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