Solar Atmospheres corporate president wins Heat Treating Achievement Award

Souderton, Pa.-based Solar Atmospheres Inc. has announced that Corporate President Roger Jones has received the 2015 Heat Treating Society (HTS) George H. Bodeen Heat Treating Achievement Award. The award recognizes distinguished and significant contributions to the field of heat treating through leadership, management, or engineering development of substantial commercial impact.

Jones was awarded “for advancing the thermal processing industry through technological developments in fixturing materials, methods, and the application of partial-pressure atmospheres in vacuum furnaces for ferrous, stainless steels, and brass alloys.”

Jones helped found Solar Atmospheres Inc. in 1983. He served as vice president, became president in 1993, and has been corporate president since 2001. He was elected to the ASM HTS board in 2005, served as vice president from 2011 to 2013, and is the current president of the society.