Keller Crescent turns 125
Keller Crescent, a major packaging supplier to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, is 125 years old. Interesting story of ingenuity and determination.
GREENSBORO, North Carolina, October 6, 2010. North American Pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging supplier, Keller Crescent Co., Inc., a Clondalkin Group Company, will celebrate its125 year anniversary this year.
This milestone has been reached in large part because of the company’s consistent track record of staunch dedication to client satisfaction and a willingness to invest in the newest, most innovative technology.
Keller Crescent got its start in the year 1885 when Captain William H. Keller’s ship ran aground on a sandbar as he made his way along the Ohio River near the city of Evansville, IN. The ship was loaded down with printing presses, and his original plan had been to continue on to Louisville. Forced by the accident to a decision, Keller set up shop in right there in Evansville. Later he would merge his operations with those of his competitor, Crescent Printing and Engraving Company, to form Keller-Crescent (there was still a hyphen in the name at that time).
Other significant historical events in Keller Crescent’s history include the great Evansville flood of 1937, during which water reached the seven-foot mark at the riverfront plant—the company still managed to fulfill orders by subcontracting and to pay workers’ wages. Additionally, mass production techniques were applied to keep customers’ costs in check and successfully weather the Great Depression while avoiding layoffs.
Over the years Keller Crescent has always invested in the most innovative technology to better meet customers’ requirements as evidenced by the company’s history; from their beginnings as one of the first to offer photo engraving process in the early 1900s, to their current use of advanced vision inspection technology for labels (and soon to be for cartons). Over the past decade, Keller Crescent has also pioneered technology dedicated to the prevention of counterfeiting activities including their use of innovative covert and overt Brandshield technologies.
In 2007, Keller Crescent was purchased by Clondalkin Group. Immediately following the acquisition, Clondalkin moved to merge the operations of Keller Crescent Co. with those of Pharmagraphics to create one consolidated company that retained the name Keller Crescent. Keller Crescent went from three locations to six and the company’s headquarters were moved from Evansville, Indiana to Greensboro, North Carolina.
Keller Crescent is a leading supplier of secondary packaging products in North America for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, supplying printed pharmaceutical folding cartons, inserts and outserts, pharmaceutical labels, patient booklets, IV hanger labels, and several patented specialty products – including the latest in track-n-trace and e-pedigree technologies. Strategic locations combine with industry expertise in converting various styles of cartons, inserts and labels to make Keller Crescent the source where quality, creativity and compliance connect for the pharmaceutical industry. For more information, please visit http://www.kellercrescent.com
Clondalkin Group is an internationally diversified specialist packaging group with over 40 separate manufacturing locations throughout North America and in 10 European countries and annual sales in excess of $1.2 billion. The Clondalkin Group pharmaceutical and healthcare businesses operate from 13 accredited production sites in the United States in North Carolina, Indiana, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico as well as in Europe, in Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom and Poland. For more information, please visit http://www.clondalkin-group.com
For further information, contact Ernie Chaplin at +1 508 473 1516.