Digital Check Corp., the leading provider of check scanners to financial institutions around the world, has undertaken a two-pronged strategy to significantly expand its production capacity in response to dramatic increases in sales of its TellerScan brand check scanners.

While Digital Check continues expansion of its production plant in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., the company has also launched a second factory by signing a long-term strategic agreement with a major Asian technology company to build TellerScan check scanners. Both of these initiatives will increase Digital Check's scanner production capability by more than 100 percent in the third quarter and by 200 percent in the fourth quarter.

"For the past eight months, we've been planning for the startup of a second production facility," stated Tom Anderson, president of Digital Check Corp. "Our decision to add a second factory was not solely based upon adding additional capacity or upon having a second factory to provide 'redundancy' and added supply protection for our customers. Just as important, our objective was to add to our engineering and technical expertise rather than just adding basic contract manufacturing."

Digital Check's manufacturing division (ICT in California) is the driving force behind the second factory expansion plan.

"With significant growth in our California factory already underway, we began an extensive due diligence process to evaluate alternatives to increase production capacity,” said Phil Barboni, president of the ICT manufacturing division. “After many audits and plant tours, our engineering team selected a partner with factories in both Japan and China to give us both a second and third factory expansion capability.

"Ultimately, we decided upon a Japanese company because their manufacturing processes are so similar to ours and their focus upon continuous quality improvement," added Barboni. To further ensure product quality and consistency, the ICT division will control parts purchasing and install the same assembly lines, PC controlled QC test procedures, and training procedures in the second facility as utilized in the California plant.