
CIMA Announces New Strategic Partnership with Avivatech
Houston, TX, January 2021 – Avivatech, LLC and CIMA Cash Handling America, Inc. are pleased to announce a strategic partnership in the US retail cash management marketplace. This partnership is the result of CIMA’s long-lasting relationship with Benchmark Technology Group, which was acquired by Digital Check Corp., in February 2021. Shortly thereafter Avivatech was announced as a cash automation solution provider.
This relationship enables Avivatech to provide its clients with CIMA’s innovative back-office recycling products such as its self-sealing stacking bag technology across its cash recycling and smart safe portfolio.
“CIMA and AvivaTech represent two of the industry’s foremost innovators. Combining Avivatech’s software solutions with CIMAs innovative cash management products will offer retail environments with a seamless back-office cash management solution,” states Vik Devjee, Vice President of CIMA Cash Handling America.
”I am pleased to have a company like CIMA embrace our retail cash automation strategy and be willing to partner with us on bringing state-of-the-art hardware and software technologies to the marketplace”, according to Jeff Hempker, President at Avivatech. “Together, our products help retailers automate and track their cash wherever they count.”
About Avivatech
Avivatech delivers a comprehensive solution of the best products, training resources, and dedicated support technicians for cash automation and check automation management for banking and retail environments. We help our clients advance and achieve their goals through our adaptive custom solutions and services. avivatech.com

Benchmark’s CashWare Now Certified for AST9000 TCR
CIMA’s AST9000 is now certified with Benchmark’s CashWare software. The AST9000 is the latest and most advanced cash recycler in the CIMA lineup of financial cash recyclers. The AST9000 will join the 7000 and 7016 cash recyclers certified for full functionality support with CashWare.
The AST9000 is a cassette-based, cash-in cash-out, teller cash recycler (TCR) from CIMA. Designed with high performance in mind for retail environments/bank branches where cash processing volumes are high. The AST9000 ensures security, reliability, and significantly faster cash processing times to deliver major operational efficiencies and productivity benefits.
AST9000 accepts, authenticates, stores and dispenses banknotes through a conveniently located high capacity input/output/reject slot. Recycling and storage are accomplished via a series of highly configurable cassettes.
“CashWare from Benchmark is a leading middleware platform that allows TCR’s to connect to banking core and teller applications. It is important for manufacturers of TCR’s like CIMA to be able to integrate into these banking solutions and we are very excited to have been able to collaborate with the team at Benchmark to integrate into CashWare. This partnership now provides our mutual reseller partners to deliver best of breed hardware and software to automate the teller cash handling in banks and credit unions,” states Vik Devjee, Vice President, CIMA Cash Handling America, Inc.
About Benchmark
For over 30 years, Benchmark has assisted banks in migrating to new technologies and business models to offer the consumer best-in-class service and convenience. Benchmark has expertise in-branch cash handling solutions and is among the largest check scanner resellers in the United States. To learn more about Benchmark’s commitment to branch automation, please visit www.benchmarktechnologygroup.com.