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Magnadata Group

Magnadata Group is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Magnadata Group rather than just read about it. In short: Magnadata Group, also known as Magnadata International, was a printing company based in Boston in Lincolnshire, specialising in the development and manufacture of security and access control media including magnetic smart tickets and tags. It was placed into administration in 2015, and was subsequently sold to Paragon Group.

Key takeaways

Magnadata Group belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Magnadata Group to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Magnadata Group from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Magnadata Group, also known as Magnadata International, was a printing company based in Boston in Lincolnshire, specialising in the development and manufacture of security and access control media including magnetic smart tickets and tags. It was placed into administration in 2015, and was subsequently sold to Paragon Group.

History

Norprint Norcros was founded on 29 May 1956. The name Norcros came 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 £7.9 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. It is known as electronic article surveillance (EAS). The Nortag took seven years to develop.

Magnadata In February 2006 Magnadata, also based in Boston, bought Norprint from administration. At the time Norprint had 226 staff and Magnadata had 193. Magnadata's customers included the London Underground, New York Metro, Sydney Rail Authority, Royal Mail, TNT, Manchester City Football Club, and the Ryder Cup organisation.

UK train tickets In August 2010 it was awarded a £24 million contract to produce 750 million magnetic strip train tickets a year in the UK for the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC).

Administration In 2015 Magnadata was placed into administration and was acquired by Paragon Group, becoming part of its BemroseBooth Paragon subsidiary. Norprint, which was a subsidiary of Magnadata, was not acquired by Paragon Group and was closed.

Location The company was based in the north of Boston on the B1183. In 2021, planning permission was given to build forty-seven houses on its former site by local housing association Longhurst Group.

References

External links BemroseBooth Paragon Archived 5 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Magnadata Group

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Magnadata Group claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Magnadata Group before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Magnadata Group ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Magnadata Group

In research: Magnadata Group appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Magnadata Group in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Magnadata Group is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Automatic identification and data capture, Boston, Lincolnshire, Companies based in Lincolnshire, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Magnadata Group outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Magnadata Group in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Magnadata Group means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Magnadata Group out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Magnadata Group in simple terms?

Why does Magnadata Group matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Magnadata Group?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Magnadata Group.