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Pharmaceutical Packaging Supplier, Keller Crescent, Turns 125

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, October 10, 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

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For further information, contact Ernie Chaplin at +1 508 473 1516.

Editor’s Notes:

• Clondalkin Group is an international producer of high value added packaging products and services with over 40 production locations in 10 different countries throughout Europe and North America and annual sales in excess of $1.2 billion.
• Clondalkin comprises of two divisions, the Flexible Packaging Division and Specialist Packaging Division, employing more than 4,000 people
• The Flexible Packaging Division, which represents 70% of sales, includes our foil and laminate businesses and plastic and polymer businesses
• The Flexible Packaging Division specializes in coated and laminated waxed papers and foils, pre-cut lids, polymer-based sheets, rolls, sleeves and bags with more than 20 production locations throughout Europe and North America including, Vaassen Flexible Packaging, Nyco, Chadwicks, AP Burt, LPF Packaging, Wentus, Van Der Windt Group, Cats-Hänsel, Accutech Films, Direct Plastics and Fortune Plastics
• The Specialist Packaging Division, which represents 30% of sales, includes our folding cartons, labels, leaflets, literature and inserts / outserts businesses and paper packaging and printing businesses
• The Specialist Packaging Division specializes in cartons, labels, leaflets and inserts, and has approximately 20 manufacturing sites in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, the United States and Puerto Rico and Ireland. These include well-known brands such as Boxes, Harlands, Ditone, Pharmagraphics Guy, Kenilworth Products, Cartonplex and Keller Crescent Page Three
• Clondalkin Group occupies leading positions in the following markets
  • Pharmaceutical & Healthcare;
  • Cosmetics & Toiletries;
  • Food & Beverage;
  • Biodegradable Packaging;
  • Confectionery & Bakery;
  • Dairy;
  • Tobacco;
  • Industrial;
  • Agricultural & Horticultural; and
  • Services & Leisure.

Clondalkin Group has extensive experience in all packaging converting technologies including extrusion, metalizing, laminating, lacquering, printing and finishing and works with all the major packaging substrates including paper, board, plastics, foils and laminates.