Staff Report
Published Feb. 20, 2012

Diversified Information Technologies has purchased a 77,000-square-foot building in the Kershaw County Industrial Park to use as a secured storage facility for documents.

The building at 7 Park Hill Road is one of four facilities that the Scranton, Pa.-based company plans to open in the next four months. Other sites are in Oregon, Connecticut and Minnesota.

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The Lugoff building, about 25 miles northeast of Columbia with access to Interstate 20 and U.S. 601, is being upfitted to meet the company’s needs, said Warren Lederer, vice president and chief relationship officer.

The structure, built in 1990, is the former site of SPX Filtran. The sale price for the building and its 13-acre site was listed at about $2.6 million, according to the Kershaw County Economic Development Office.

“We hope to have employment up to 25 people over the next five years with a significant number of construction and trade positions during the ramp up,” said Lederer, who added that the company’s investment will be between $3 million and $5 million.

The Lugoff building will serve the company’s customers in the Southeast, Lederer said. DIT also has facilities in North Carolina and Florida.

DIT is a document management solutions provider that serves clients in the financial services, insurance, health care and government sectors along with professional associations. The original paper documents will be stored in the Lugoff facility. If a customer needs a document, employees will fetch it from the storage area and mail it. Or, workers can make a digital image of the document and send it online.

Because the building will be holding federal documents that are classified or highly confidential, it will have to meet stringent security standards set by the National Archives and Records Administration.

"This is the gold standard of security in the document management industry," said Scott Byers, president and CEO of DIT. "We want our clients to know that the information they trust us with is secured to our own requirements, even if their own industries require less."

When complete, all four facilities will be equipped with technology to manage, secure, store and deliver critical business information on behalf of DIT's national client base.

Including the Lugoff facility, DIT said its latest acquisitions will bring more than 3.5 million cubic feet of space online.

"Our business is growing, and adding these locations gives us the physical presence we need to continue serving our customers from coast to coast," Byers said. "We're a company that's doubled in size over the past five years by providing something unique — an integrated document management solution that effectively and efficiently takes our clients paperless."

DIT provides customized document management solutions for five of the top 10 financial services firms across the country, three of the top 10 life insurance providers, more than 350 health care providers and hospitals, and multiple federal agencies.