Producing more than 800 million cards per year puts VCT among the global leaders in card manufacturing. With strategically located facilities in the USA, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and Brazil, we can serve you efficiently wherever your business takes you.

Headquartered just outside Chicago, in Downers Grove, Illinois, VCT was established in 1986 to service the direct marketing industry. Now, with customer service and production facilities on four continents, VCT has become a multi-national manufacturer and world leader in plastic card production and related services.

VCT's unique position traces to our early days of competing for business in a commodity market. The needs of the direct marketing industry meant providing high quality card products delivered quickly and economically.

As our customers' businesses expanded and changed. VCT as the supply-partner, focused on their needs and evolved with them by improving quality, capacity, delivery, value, and by introducing new and innovative products that deliver a very competitive advantage.

With market shifts, VCT responded with new products. During the 80's and early 90's it was direct marketing and membership cards. In 1989, VCT became VISA® and MasterCard® certified and meets the stringent manufacturing requirements for bank and retail credit cards. The early and mid-90's marked the birth of telephone, gift, and loyalty cards and key tags to manage supermarket programs. Each product represented challenges and opportunities that VCT and our customers worked closely to meet.

The addition of Smartcards and related accessories to our product line was a significant development as they offer an amazingly vast array of new and exciting opportunities. Our customers are confident that with VCT as their partner, they have the technology, quality, and value needed to be competitive worldwide.

Over the past 16 years, VCT has maintained a reputation as a value leader by distinguishing itself through technical achievements and product innovation. Our production and product managers travel the world searching for the best sources of raw materials, equipment, and new product ideas. Today, VCT offers a variety of products and services that include advanced security printing, materials to enhance card durability, embedding of smartcard chips, encoding and personalization, and even specialty card packaging.

As our customers discovered they had entered the "global economy", they now faced new challenges and opportunities. To succeed, they needed a supply-partner who was also competitive worldwide. VCT met the challenge and, over the last six years established strategically placed customer service centers and production facilities in Europe, Asia, and South America. A global marketplace also requires a globally oriented customer service team trained to deal with the needs of international customers including shipping, logistics, and customs. Like our customers, VCT also depends on the support of its supply-partners.

To be successful, VCT develops strong relationships with suppliers. Here too, finding the best partners requires a global approach. A tour of our production facilities will reveal how VCT spares no expense in assembling the best manufacturing equipment and materials from around the world.