Heat Treat Today\'s Meet the Consultant: John Clarke

Heat Treat Consultants is a comprehensive listing of heat treat industry consultants offered as part of Heat Treat Today’s efforts to help minimize the effects of heat treat “brain drain.” In this occasional feature, “Meet the Consultants”, we will introduce you to the experts listed in this growing directory. Today, learn more about John Clarke of Combustion Innovations, and then click through to the page to read more details about each consultant. We are adding more regularly. Contact them directly, or call us and we’ll introduce you to them. Whether it’s a technical process question, a safety concern, a compliance issue, or a business-related question, one of our heat treat consultants will be able to help. If you are a consultant and would like to be listed, please contact Doug Glenn.

Name: John Clarke
Company Name: Combustion Innovations
Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Years In Industry: 30+
Consulting Specialties:

Energy Manufacturing
New Business Development & Product Development
Engineering
Strategic Planning

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Briefly:

John has served the heat treating community for several years in various roles with the Industrial Heating Equipment Association (including president in 2007). After a few years with Maxon Corporation, where he was Vice President of Business Development, primarily responsible for strategic alliance development, planning, and marketing, John began a career with Diamond Engineering Company in 2004, eventually leading the company as president. As a consultant for Diamond, he has worked with a range of corporate and organizational clients, including the Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Lab, Purdue University Technical Assistance Program, and Union Gas. In addition, John has been the director of Sales and Technology at Combustion Innovations, Inc. in Fort Wayne, Indiana, since its founding in 2016, where he oversees product development, engineering, and sales and marketing of the company, seeking new techniques to maximize efficiency and minimize time for repair. John shares his expertise and knowledge in various roles as a trainer, a speaker/presenter at heat treating and other industry conferences and workshops, a researcher and author. He holds 3 U.S. patents for heat processing equipment.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

Workshop Participant, “Roadmap for Process Heating Technology Priority Research & Development Goals and Near-Term NonResearch Goals To Improve Industrial Process Heating”, Industrial Heating Equipment Association/Office of Industrial Technologies (Department of Energy), 1999
Chair, Process Heating Steering Committee, assisting the Department of Energy in giving voice to end users’s needs (2002-2004)
Member, IHEA (2004 to present)
President of the IHEA (2007), following serving as Vice-President, 2nd Vice-President and Treasurer
Presenter, “Convert a Compliance Energy Audit from an Impediment to Opportunity”, International ThermProcess Summit, Chicago, Illinois (2016)
Certified Trainer for the Department of Energy, listed as a Process Heating Assessment and Survey Tool (PHAST) Qualified Specialist (current, June 2018)
Holds 3 U.S. Patents for heat processing equipment.
Worked with IHEA and U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the International Standard Organization (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) to consider, develop and recommend formal proposals for changes on ISO documents regarding method of energy balance and efficiency.
Author of articles published on LinkedIn and Process-Heating.