Gilpin & Company - About Us

Founded in 1963 by Sandy Gilpin, Gilpin and Company, Inc., is the global leader in easy-open ends and other hard-to-find packaging closures. We specialize in helping companies throughout the world buy and sell easy-open ends and closures. We also are the exclusive supplier of Silgan Plastics Corporation's OMNI retort containers in Asia Pacific. Our customers are assured of the right solution for the package, the best price, the best quality and on-time delivery.

Gilpin understands the subtleties of doing business in established and emerging global markets. We have a network of sales and purchasing agents on every continent who speak the local languages and understand local business practices. Although we are in the business of selling easy-open ends and specialty closures, we also focus on establishing and maintaining relationships with our customers and our agents. Your success is our success.

Sandy Gilpin
Founder and President

Sandy Gilpin founded Gilpin and Company, Inc., in 1963, after working in international sales for Continental Can. Gilpin and Company’s initial focus was chemicals and raw materials used by the packaging industry. When easy-open ends began to appear on beverage cans in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, Sandy was intrigued by the technology’s potential. He contacted all of the major easy-open end manufacturers in the United States and Europe, offering to sell for them around the world. Soon the company was devoted entirely to easy-open ends.

Today easy-open ends are used throughout the world on a myriad of rigid containers. While Sandy doesn’t take credit for the wholesale move away from can opener assist ends to easy-open ends, he did play a major role in the global acceptance of easy-open ends by making it easy for buyers and sellers to come together. Sandy is actively involved in maintaining Gilpin’s strategic relationships around the world. A native of Philadelphia, Sandy earned a degree in economics from Yale University.

Paul McClure
Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Paul McClure joined Gilpin in 2004 and is responsible for global sales and marketing. Paul has more than 15 years experience in packaging, most recently serving as international market manager for easy-open ends for Sonoco, a global packaging company and among the largest producers of easy-open ends. While at Sonoco, Paul led projects that included opening a new easy-open end manufacturing plant in Brazil. Paul has served as plant manager, production manager and plant engineer in multiple can and easy-open end manufacturing facilities.

He also has worked as consultant to help companies enter Asian, European and South American markets. Paul earned a master’s of business administration from Georgia State University and a bachelor’s of mechanical engineering from Auburn University.

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