John Kalkowski
John Kalkowski is editor in chief of Food Online, covering food processing and packaging. He has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist and production leader at several newspapers and trade magazines around the United States and in Hong Kong. In addition, he has extensive experience in the packaging industry, serving in marketing roles for packaging equipment OEMs and as editorial director of Packaging Digest. John is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, has a Master’s in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and was a journalism fellow at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
You can reach John by email at john.kalkowski@foodonline.com
OTHER ARTICLES BY JOHN KALKOWSKI
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![U.S. Sales Of Packaging Equipment Slowing In Mature Market, Study Says]( "U.S. Sales Of Packaging Equipment Slowing In Mature Market, Study Says")
U.S. Sales Of Packaging Equipment Slowing In Mature Market, Study Says10/14/2015The U.S. market for packaging equipment is expected to remain flat, or show a slight growth of about 1.6 percent for the remainder of 2015 and upcoming 2016, according to the State of the Industry U.S. Packaging Machinery Report from PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.
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![Food Safety]( "New Technologies Offer Effective Monitoring Of Food Chain")
New Technologies Offer Effective Monitoring Of Food Chain5/27/2015For every challenge that food manufacturers face in processing and packaging, there is a way to automate, measure, or systematize a solution. And if it doesn’t already exist, some entrepreneur somewhere is probably working on it.
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![FSMA Rules At Food Safety Summit]( "New FSMA Rules Require Agencies To Collaborate And Integrate")
New FSMA Rules Require Agencies To Collaborate And Integrate5/6/2015Implementation of FSMA’s new rules — with an emphasis on integration and collaboration — was the primary theme of the recent Food Safety Summit held April 27-30 in Baltimore.
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![Cargill Meat Plant Eliminates Landfill Waste]( "Cargill Meat Plant Eliminates Waste Being Sent To Landfills")
Cargill Meat Plant Eliminates Waste Being Sent To Landfills4/22/2015Cargill’s meat-processing facility in Hazleton, PA, ships more than 10 million pounds of packaged meat each month, yet it sends zero waste to the local landfill. However, it wasn’t always that way, according to Aaron Humes, the plant’s general manager.
