About Us - Secure Offsite Data, Storage & Shredding Services - UV&S

ABOUT US

Secure Storage and Continued Growth Since 1959

For over 60 years, UV&S has operated as a service-oriented records storage company, adding new services through the years to meet our client’s needs. We provide all services required when using offsite storage for paper and media, multiple IT services, secure shredding, and event services.

Founded by a group of Wichita, Kansas businessmen who foresaw the need for a secure location to protect and manage information, UV&S incorporated on June 11, 1959. Numerous sights nationwide were evaluated, then the salt mine in Hutchinson, Kansas, was selected. Factors including, but not limited to, the geographically central site, the security and environment inherent in a mine 650 feet below the earth’s surface, and the unlimited space this active mine could provide for expansion and business development made it their first choice. Known in the industry as an early entrant in the offsite records management field, UV&S is still a privately owned and operated company. Many of the original families continue in the management and direction of our company.

With over a half-century of established business practice, we have grown from our flagship salt mine facility to multiple facilities in four states and the United Kingdom. Growth came by opening new records centers and destruction facilities and through acquisitions. Our three underground facilities located in Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky, as well as our facilities in the UK specialize in film storage for the movie industry.

With each new facility and acquisition, UV&S is strengthened to continue growing by adding new products and services that help our clients solve their business problems. We stand ready to meet your needs with our mix of underground and above ground storage facilities, data center and IT services, NAID Certified destruction services, media recycling, event services, a wholly owned fleet of transportation vehicles, and well-proven procedures and technology.

1959 Hutchinson, Kansas – The Salt Mine
1985 Topeka, Kansas
1986 Kansas City, Missouri – Limestone Mine
1987 Wichita, Kansas
2001 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2003 Louisville, Kentucky – Limestone Mine
2014 Document Resources acquisition, 4 facilities in Kansas supporting document destruction services
2016 Concergent IT acquisition, Secure Data Center and technology consultant located in Wichita, Kansas
2018 DH Media Solutions acquisition, 3 storage facilities in the United Kingdom
2019 Corner Post Holdings acquisition, cloud services added to technology division offerings
2019 Media Servicing acquisition, 5 storage facilities in the United Kingdom and new division Event Services
2021 LandShark Shredding acquisition, 1 destruction facility in Kentucky
2021 Los Angeles, California (this location operated by UVSINC LLC)
2023 DCE/Paramount 4 acquisition, supporting facilities for Event Services in Berkshire, United Kingdom and Cannes, France
2023 Intermex Metal Works acquisition, metal design and fabrication facility in Newbury, England to support our Event Services division
2024 R3store and R3el acquisition, film restoration and digital services located in London England

STRATACA

We proudly support Strataca, located in Hutchinson, Kansas. The underground museum is operated by the Reno County Historical Society and is unlike any other museum in the United States. Visitors to the salt museum enjoy a trip 650 feet below ground where they board a tram that takes them to over 100,000 square feet of galleries. One gallery has items UV&S has loaned the museum from some of our Hollywood clients. 

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LOCATIONS

Bowling Green

270-793-0880
PO Box 51332
1143 Fairway Ste 102
Bowling Green, KY 42103

Hays

Hutchinson

Corporate Office – Hutchinson

Oklahoma City

Salina

Wichita – UV&S Technology

Wichita

UNDERGROUND STORAGE

Disaster, Deterioration, & Deception Protection

Underground storage offers the maximum-possible security for sensitive media, critical data, important records, and vital assets. A well-planned, located and constructed underground storage facility is virtually impervious to natural and manmade disaster

Advantages Underground Storage

Hutchinson Underground Vault Storage

REFRIGERATION STORAGE

Ideal for sensitive media

UV&S offers a number of options for Refrigerated & Climate Controlled Storage where the environment is maintained at a cool, dry temperature designed to extend the life of film elements, sound recordings, microfilm, and other sensitive media. For those needing a specific storage environment , we also offer other customized storage vaults options:

Advantages Controlled Environment and Refrigerated Storage

DRAWER STORAGE

Drawer storage, for micromedia material

We offer competitively priced drawer storage for a variety of media including microfilm, microfiche, aperture cards, engineering, architectural, flat artworks and historic documents. You can choose from our selection of cabinets, or we can custom-order them on your behalf.

Advantages Drawer Storage

Microfilm

MEDIA VAULTS

The best place for critical data

Not all Media Vaults are the same, is your data in a controlled environment? Significantly reduce the risk of theft or data loss due to disaster and tape degradation by trusting UV&S. Our underground and above ground secure media vaults maintain ideal climates. Each facility is perfect for permanent data tape storage and active rotations.

Advantages Media Vaults

PRIVATE VAULTS

Maximum Customization and Security

Private Vaults are a big part of what we do. Our three underground storage facilities in Kansas, Kentucky and Missouri offer completely customized storage to meet your exacting specifications. Whether you need a 15,000 sq ft room with workstations or a 100 sq ft room with a bank vault door, we can accommodate. We offer three main options; Private Facilities, Maximum Protection Vaults, and Micro Vaults. Each meets a little different need.

Advantages Private Vaults

Storage in the United Kingdom

UV&S UK Terms and Conditions

The best place for your assets

In The United Kingdom

storage in London, storage in ashford

UV&S has multiple climate-controlled vault options, including Essential Vaults, Premier Vaults, and Exclusive Vaults, along with Ambient storage in the United Kingdom.

+44 (0) 1635 230020

BOX STORAGE OFFERINGS

Any Quantity, Small to Large

UV&S offers economical boxed document storage at each facility, for clients large and small. Free up valuable space, reduce storage costs, eliminate worker’s comp risk, and get records out of harm’s way – place your boxes in our care.

Advantages Box Storage