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Rex Heat Treat began as a two-man operation in a two-car garage over 70 years ago. Today, the commercial heat treater based in Lansdale, Pa., employs 90 people at three separate facilities.
In 1938, the company's first job was hardening a pair of chisels. During the late 1950s/early 1960s, what was known as J.W. Rex Company (named after founder J. Walter Rex) built three vertical gantry furnaces ranging in size from 15 to 30 feet tall for the Titan and Minuteman missile programs and became a major source for the heat treatment of ordnance shells.
The company name was changed to Rex Heat Treat in 1999. The following year, a 30,000-square foot facility was added in Bedford, Pa. In 2005, the company...