brush industries / q-card company

Brush Industries and Q-Card are two of the most trusted names in the payments and ID space. Brush manufactures long-life durable magnetic read and write heads for card equipment manufacturers, public transit and other payment applications. We also manufacture the worlds only true waterproof magstripe reader for the carwash, parking and access control markets, as well as other outdoor applications. Brush also provides high-precision machining and assembly services for various markets that require high-tolerance, high-performance components. Brush is an ISO 9001:2008 Certified Company. Q-Card is a leading test laboratory for third party testing to the payments and ID space. Our expertise includes EMV, NFC, contact and contactless card, mobile, magstripe, barcode, card body/durability testing and payment terminal testing. Q-Card also manufactures its own line of laboratory equipment and accessories for card and terminal testing. Our products include laboratory grade magstripe analyzers, bend and torsion testers, impact and opacity testers, CQM test fixtures, smartcard analyzers, chip and magstripe test cards, secondary reference cards, and magnetic developers. Q-Card is ISO 9001: 2008 and ISO 17025:2005 certified. We are also Accredited to perform EMV certification testing. Our future is looking towards new technologies related to the implementation of EMV here in the U.S. such as: NFC, BLE, MPOS, and related transaction technologies.