Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America Celebrates 125 Years
Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America, formerly Keller Crescent, will celebrate its 125 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.
Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America got its start in 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 right there in Evansville. Later he would merge his operations with those of his competitor, Crescent Printing and Engraving Company, to form Keller-Crescent (now Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America).
Other significant historical events in Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America'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 Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America 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, Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America has also pioneered technology dedicated to the prevention of counterfeiting activities including their use of innovative covert and overt Brandshield technologies.
In 2007, Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America was purchased by Clondalkin Group. Immediately following the acquisition, Clondalkin moved to merge the operations of Keller Crescent with those of Pharmagraphics to create one consolidated business. Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America went from three locations to six and the company’s headquarters were moved from Evansville, Indiana to Greensboro, North Carolina.
Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America 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.
Nine strategic locations combine with industry expertise in converting various styles of cartons, inserts and labels to make Clondalkin Pharma & Healthcare North America the source where quality, creativity and compliance connect for the pharmaceutical industry.