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


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 is full of items loaned to the museum, through UV&S, from some of our Hollywood clients.