John C. Bohn

John C. Bohn

Director, Sales and Marketing

johnb@agcheattransfer.com | 503-887-2933

Personal Summary:

Mr. Bohn’s over 27 years professional experience has been devoted solely to sanitary plate heat exchange. Mr. Bohn helped found the company in 1991. He is listed as an inventor of a patent in the field and finds helping the customer with innovative solutions to their specific problems a rewarding challenge.  His travel worldwide brings a unique balance and understanding to the sanitary plate heat exchange market. He has extensive real world application experience with various viscous products including starch and starch based products, Ice Cream mix applications, Ketchup and sauce products, Liquid Egg as well as cheesemilk and standard HTST, HHST, UHT and Aseptic plate applications. He perfected the circulate method of field leak checking plate units (PlateCheck) using AGC s exclusive RI-606 food grade circulate dye. He is a member of the International Association of Food Industry Suppliers (IAFIS) and International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA). He serves as Chairman of the 3A sanitary standards (WG 5) setting design standards for plate and other heat exchangers. He resides in Farmington, Missouri with his Wife Joanie and two step-daughters Lindsey and Kristi. He has three wonderful older children Juliana, James and Rebecca living in Portland, Oregon. He is an instrument rated Private Pilot and flys a Lancair Model 4P four place, turbo-charged pressurized high performance aircraft. He also enjoys service in the Church, travel and relaxing with family.

Education:

  • University of Wisconsin-River Falls, B.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering Technology, 1985.

Experience:

  • 1991-Present AGC Heat Transfer, Inc. (AGC)- Founder and Director of Marketing and Sales.
  • 1989 – 1991 Cherry Burrell, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Louisville, Kentucky, Director of plate and Tubular Heat Exchangers. Managed plate heat exchange projects and personnel.
  • 1989- GEA Food and Process Systems Corp, Columbia, Maryland. Process Engineer, Plate Heat Exchange Division.
  • 1985 – 1989 APV Crepaco, Tonawanda, New York, – Application Engineering- Food and Dairy Group. Plate heat exchange Applications and small system design