verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message magnadata international industry printing headquarters horncastle road boston lincolnshire pe21 9hz area served global key people roy colclough chief executive products smart ticketing systems services printer servicing revenue 34 million divisions magnadata usa magnadata pty subsidiaries norprint website magnadata magnadata group also known as magnadata international is a specialised printing company in boston in lincolnshire . since 2010 it has had the national contract for producing the uk s train tickets . it is one of the main companies in europe that can produce magnetic id cards for a company s workforce . it claims to be a global leader in rfid radio frequency identification technology . the technology is referred to as smart ticketing . contents 1 history 1.1 dapag 1.2 norprint 1.3 magnadata 1.4 uk train tickets 2 structure 2.1 magnadata usa 2.2 magnadata pty 2.3 norprint 3 products 4 references 5 external links history edit dapag edit dapag had been formed in 1943 . it made machines for printing tickets labels and tags . it was based at plumtree court in ec4 in london near where the a40 and a201 meet at holborn viaduct . it employed around 170 staff . norprint edit norcros was founded on 29 may 1956 . dapag was part of norcros . the name norcros comes from normanby north lincolnshire home of normanby hall . a director of the company was john vincent sheffield former high sheriff of lincolnshire from 1944 5 and great uncle of the wife of david cameron . other members of the sheffield family edmund and george were directors . norprint international was based on norfolk street in boston . it had a division on valley road in dovercourt on the essex coast with 550 staff . norprint also made ticket printing machines . norprint claimed to be europe s largest producer of industrial and retail labelling systems and the largest in the world outside of america . in early 1968 it helped to start the i m backing britain campaign by running off the promotional stickers for free . before the days of barcodes in supermarkets norprint made hand held price labellers used by the main supermarkets ; these were made in harwich . in april 1989 it received a queen s award for technological achievement for its magnetic striped and encoded tickets and payment tokens . norprint produced tickets for airlines and the london underground . it was owned by norcros plc. on 25 june 1998 norcros put norprint up for sale . in july 1998 norprint was bought by a management buyout mbo for 13.7 million . after the buyout it was known as norprint labelling systems . in 2005 it developed the nortag a small inconspicuous rfid label on products to combat shoplifting which won the queen s award for enterprise innovation technology in april 2005 . 1 it is known as electronic article surveillance eas . the nortag took seven years to develop . customers include the new york metro dublin bus valencia metro metrovalencia sydney rail and london underground . citation needed magnadata edit on 7 december 2000 magnadata was visited by prince edward duke of kent in his capacity as vice chairman of british trade international being accompanied by bridget cracroft eley . in february 2006 magnadata also based in boston bought norprint . 2 norprint had around 220 staff and magnadata had around 200 . uk train tickets edit in 1987 magnadata was the first company to produce magnetic strip tickets for british rail . for this it received the queen s award for technology in 1989 ; it was the first printing company to receive this award . in august 2010 it was awarded the 24 million contract to produce the magnetic strip tickets for train tickets in the uk for the association of train operating companies atoc . this is for around 750 million tickets a year at over 2500 railway stations . 3 structure edit it is based in the north of boston in lincolnshire on the b1183 which follows alongside the maud foster drain . haven high academy a secondary school is next door . magnadata usa edit magnadata usa is based in toms river new jersey . magnadata pty edit in may 2002 it bought spectron transit tickets pty ltd of australia which is now magnadata pty based in st marys new south wales . norprint edit this section does not cite any sources . please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message norprint is a subsidiary of magnadata . it has thirty printing presses running 24 hours a day at the site in boston and claims to be the largest printing facility in the uk . it produces over 10 billion labels per year . norprint claims to be the uk s largest distributor and reseller of thermal transfer ribbons for printers . products edit energy tokens for gas and electricity smart meters rfid labels magnetic rail tickets references edit nortag magnadata february 2006 atoc contract in august 2010 external links edit magnadata group norprint graces guide retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title magnadata group & oldid 703601986 categories companies based in lincolnshireboston lincolnshirefare collection systems in the united kingdomtechnology companies of the united kingdomradio frequency identification companiesprinting companies of the united kingdomsmart cardsautomatic identification and data capturehidden categories articles needing additional references from april 2013all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 february 2016 at 13 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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