Cranbury, NJ - June 30, 2026 - Key International, Inc. is pleased to announce that Ryan Keefer has joined our staff as a Sales Manager supporting our customers in the Southeast and Midwest United States.
Ryan brings more than 25 years of experience as a well-established, successful Sales Manager, Product Marketing Manager and Operations Manager, covering capital equipment sales across the Pharmaceutical, Nutritional Supplement and Food industries. “To meet the ever-expanding needs of our customers, we have decided to invest in our company through the hiring of Ryan as a new Sales Manager,” said Kevin Beenders, Key International President & CEO. “Ryan is the perfect candidate for the position with his vast industry knowledge and years of success in growing Pharmaceutical, Vitamin, and food customers. He will be a tremendous asset to our customers in the Southeast and Midwest regions”.
Most recently, Ryan was Sales Manager at The Elizabeth Companies, helping drive sales, market equipment and tooling products, improve process efficiencies and create an environment for customer service success.
Over the years, Ryan’s major customer focus included large to medium-sized pharmaceutical companies as well as smaller nutritional supplement organizations, all with an emphasis on increasing sales and managing customer projects. He has extensive equipment experience involving mostly oral solid dose applications, including tableting, encapsulation, blending, mixing, coating and packaging.
With a passion for driving sales and helping to meet the production and R&D product development needs of various customers within a wide range of industries, Ryan is now bringing his skills and experience to Key to help grow its reputation for providing high-quality processing and packaging equipment in the Pharmaceutical, Nutritional, Food, Cosmetic and Chemical industries.
Ryan lives in and will be based out of Pittsburgh, PA. He is looking forward to working with his processing and packaging customers and can be reached via email at
rkeefer@keyinternational.com or by cell phone at 412-897-3886.
About Key International:
Key International, Inc., a New Jersey-based manufacturer and supplier founded in 1968, provides products and services to the Pharmaceutical, Food, Nutritional Supplement, Cosmetic and Chemical industries.
The Company's objective is to be in partnership with our customers and provide solutions for their manufacturing and packaging needs. More than 40 years ago, we established U.S. representation with top European and Asian manufacturers of high-quality processing and packaging machinery. Today we offer the finest in Asian, European and U.S.-manufactured machinery and equipment designed to provide efficiency, flexibility and reliability.