Under Takeda, the Elverum site had around 200 employees and was the largest private employer of the area. Curida started out with a smaller operation at its inception in 2015. Since then the site has experienced significant growth in terms of both revenue and employment, and it will in the near future approach the size it saw at its historic peak in 2013.

The employees showed great courage when starting their own company under uncertain conditions in 2014 and 2015. Before Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg reopened the Elverum site under the Curida name on July 1st 2015, the employees had put more than 10,000 hours of volunteer work into making the new company a reality.

The employees and management remained the only owners of Curida until December 2017, when Norwegian family offices Canica and Klaveness Marine invested in Curida. Shortly after, the Norwegian governmental investment fund Investinor and family office Stokke Industri followed. The employees and management still control more than 20 percent of the shares in Curida.

In 2018, to increase the Norwegian footprint, Curida acquired Ås Produksjonslab, located south of Oslo. Ås Produksjonslab performs fill and finish of bottle products for the Norwegian pharmacy market.