D. Scott MacKenzie recently received the 2025 George H. Bodeen Heat Treating Achievement Award. He was awarded “in recognition of his unparalleled contributions to advancing quenching technology worldwide through pioneering work in quenchant materials and modeling, and for his tireless dedication to education and training within the heat treat industry.”
Dr. MacKenzie retired from Quaker Houghton in January 2025 as Quaker Houghton Research Fellow. He is also an ASM Fellow.
Established in 1996, the George H. Bodeen Heat Treating Achievement Award recognizes distinguished and significant contributions to the field of heat treating through leadership, management, or engineering development of substantial commercial impact.
Heat Treat 2025 was a success
Heat Treat 2025, sponsored by ASM Heat Treating Society and held in conjunction with ASM IMAT, premiered in Detroit, Michigan, October 21-23 at Huntington Place. With 197 exhibitors, and more than 100 technical papers and presentations, attendance was at a record level.
Conference Updates
BHTS’2026
April 16-17 I Istanbul, Turkeye
BHTS’2026 – the 3rd Bosphorus International Heat Treatment Symposium will be April 16-17, 2026, at the Sabancı University Performing Arts Center in Istanbul, in collaboration with the Metal Heat Treatment Industrialists Association (MISAD) and UCTEA Chamber of Metallurgical and Materials Engineers’ Training Center (METEM). The chairman of the event is Nuri Kiziltan.
Submission of final papers is January 9, 2026.
The symposium will provide a comprehensive platform to discuss heat treatment, one of the strategic fields of manufacturing, considering the latest technological and scientific developments. The goal is to bring together all stakeholders, including industry leaders, engineers, researchers, academics, and end users, to exchange knowledge, build collaborations, and shape the future of the field.
For more info: info@bhtsheat.com or www.bhtsheat.com/en
31st IFHTSE World Congress
October 13-15, 2026 I Cologne, Germany
Organized by AWT – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wärmebehandlung + Werkstofftechnik e. V., the 31st IFHTSE World Congress will be October 13-15, 2026, in Cologne, Germany, at the International Conference and trade fair. It will include three events: HK 2026, ECHT 2026, and the 31st IHTSE World Congress
This will truly be a huge event. If you have never attended the AWT HK (HärtereiKongress) event, this is one of the largest (if not the largest) heat treating trade show in the world. This, combined with ECHT 2026 and the 31st World Congress, will be the ONE event to attend.
This large conference is organized in cooperation with the International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering (IFHTSE) as well as the European heat treatment associations from France, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the Benelux countries. Due to the expected number of lecture registrations, the congress event is planned as a three-day event. The language of the conference will be English.
Abstracts are due March 15, 2026.
More info: www.hk-awt.de
Free participation at the next IFHTSE World Congress
Young researchers are invited to participate at the IFHTSE World Congress. The International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering (IFHTSE) is dedicated to promoting the international exchange in the field. To this end, the Federation will invite some researchers younger than 35 to participate for free at the IFHTSE World Congress in Cologne in 2026. The Federation will reimburse them for the travel, accommodation, and attendance provided they present a paper in the World Congress.
Candidates shall submit:
- A letter of support from their professor or supervisor on letterhead.
- A summary of max 200 words on their degree program and on their present project(s).
- A travel plan indicating the costs they expect for travel, accommodation, and registration fee.
The files can be emailed to info@awt.online.org until January 10, 2026, under the subject reference: “Free participation at the World Congress.” The IFHTSE Executive Committee will then select and inform the candidates.
The candidates also should submit an abstract to www.hk-awt.de/vortragsanmeldungen by March 15, 2026.
After they have presented their papers at the World Congress the Federation, the candidate’s actual costs will be reimbursed upon presentation of the tickets, invoices, etc, within the margin of the travel plan.
