Digger Specialties Revenue and Competitors

The quality of the product we deliver to the market place is of great importance to Digger Specialties to the point that we have included our commitment to delivering only the "highest quality products" to our customers in our mission statement. We have a multiple level Quality Assurance Program. Through inspection and testing, we are constantly checking and monitoring our products for consistency in quality and reliability. We have two sophisticated machines for controlling the quality of the products we will accept from our vendors and the quality of product we deliver to our customers. We have a Spectrometer for measuring color content and brightness. The variances this machine measures are held within tight tolerances. The PVC is monitored hourly during extrusion by our vendor to ensure the material meets these standards. Our Quality Assurance personnel check the PVC extrusions once we receive it here at Digger Specialties. Any material that fails to meet our standards is rejected. We work closely with our vendors to help improve their production processes resulting in higher quality material and fewer rejected shipments. The same attention is given to testing our product for its ability to endure in the field. We have an Accelerated Weathering Tester that simulates outdoor conditions so we may test how our products stand up over the years. This Accelerated Weathering Machine simulates the damaging conditions of exterior weathering on plastic and similar materials by constantly cycling the sample product between UV-radiation (from UV lamps) and moisture at higher temperatures. After a pre-set exposure time in the weathering machine, equivalent to a corresponding outdoor exposure time, the sample is removed and inspected. We test various products at different time intervals to meet all expected requirements, depending on the application. This is done to ensure our products will "stand up to the test of time" and we know our customers have a product that will last. In addition to our internal Quality Assurance Program and our partnering efforts with our vendors, some of our products are submitted to external testing agencies for unbiased evaluation against industry-recognized standards. Our PolyRail® vinyl railing has been tested and certified by NTA, Inc., a national testing and evaluation firm, and our Cardinal and Eagle railings have been evaluated by BOCA. Click this link to see the BOCA-ES Report #21-42 as an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your system to read and print PDF files. Click the button above to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software.