State printing company OAG Hungary
| Állami Nyomda Plc.
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| legal form | Open joint-stock company |
| ISIN | HU0000093257 |
| founding | 1851 |
| Seat | Budapest , Hungary |
| Website | www.allaminyomda.com |
The State Printing House ( Hungarian Állami Nyomda ) is one of the largest security printing houses in Hungary and in the Central and Eastern European region. The company used to produce traditional printed products. Nowadays, the focus of her field of activity is the handling of document security products and solutions, PVC cards and their personalization, electronic document management and the processing of large-scale business letters. The company's shares have been listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange since 2005 .
The history of the State Printing House of Hungary
The beginning
After equalizing in 1867 between Hungary and the House of Habsburg , the first independent Hungarian government was formed when the predecessor of the printing this time it is a subsidiary of the Imperial Court and State Printing seen in Vienna, the Austrian after the precipitation of the March Revolution and the struggle for freedom from the Government in Temesvár was established.
This printing company began its activity at the beginning of 1851 and became one of the largest institutes in the city, which had already had a developed printing industry. In 1868 the printing house moved with its complete machine park and the majority of its skilled workers to Budapest in the government district - near the ministries - the Ofner Castle in order to meet the needs of the Hungarian government for administrative printing .
At that time, the Ministry of Finance also administered the Hungarian Royal Cadastre Lithographic Office and Map Archive, which had been producing and reproducing cadastral surveys and maps - which served as the basis for property taxation - since 1868.
In 1869, the government decided to merge the two printing works because the Ministry of Finance had to find a solution to the production of revenue stamps. With the merger, the prerequisites for a prompt and reliable production of revenue stamps and printed matter were given, even if this often had to be kept secret until publication.
The official name of the new institute was Royal Hungarian State Printing Office (ku Staatsdruckerei).
The first Hungarian postage stamp - 1871
For the public, stamp production was ascribed to the state printing company as the main activity over the decades. After the compromise of 1867 to emphasize national sovereignty and due to financial and administrative reasons, the Hungarian government found it necessary to be able to deduct the official and postal service fee with its own stamps. In the past, it was possible thanks to postage stamps issued in parallel - Austro-Hungarian - and these were of course printed in Vienna. The fee stamps were produced from 1869 in the state printing house managed by the independent Ministry of Finance. The 1867 Compromise provision affecting the Post came into effect on May 1st. All Hungarian post offices were subordinate to the post office and in this way the natural need arose to put stamps on Hungarian mail that were issued independently. As this need had also been recognized by the imperial government, the first Hungarian newspaper stamp was issued on June 20, 1868. Although this was still printed in the Viennese printing house and the watermark on the paper could still be read in German, on the stamp itself the heading appeared in Hungarian. On the trademark was the Hungarian coat of arms and the crown. The first domestically produced stamp - after the development of brand production technology from the state printing company - was put into the postal service in 1871.
Since 1901 called the State Printing House
After restructuring in 1901, the company's name was changed to State Printing House. In the state printing house, the budget and its reasons, the accounts, the important draft laws, the financial law gazette and also the timetables of the MÁV ( Hungarian State Railways ) were printed.
Here the Hungarian state treasury bills, the various treasury bills, state bonds, annuity notes, class lots, exchange forms, export and import delivery notes, cigar and tobacco papers, and tax stamps were produced. The Hungarian government founded the Hungarian banknote printing company in 1922, which began printing domestic banknotes in August 1923 in the buildings of the state printing company. During the Second World War , the print shop was classified as an armaments company, as the food and fuel notes were also produced here. At the end of the war, the postal and railway types were again produced, as were state printed matter, bonds and tickets. For the election in 1945, the State Printing Office printed the ballot papers and later the pengő that were issued during the hyperinflation of 1946.
The company has been producing the toto and later the lottery tickets since 1947. In addition to the production of gambling prints, the completion of the four-year election documents had also become a permanent production profile. Thanks to the investment made in 1957, capacities were expanded, quality improved, and the production of multi-colored stamps began. In the 1960s, the printing of export stamps took off.
Todays situation
After the political change, the majority of the state monopoly was abolished and competition began for the manufacture of products that had previously been produced under exclusive jurisdiction. With the end of state protection, there was nothing else left than rethinking the company's situation. All things considered, the State Printing House was privatized in 1993. The development of the print shop required a larger field of work and much more modern and sophisticated working conditions. For this reason the company moved from the Ofner Castle to the Xth district (Kőbánya). The new printing plant in Halom Strasse was officially opened on October 4, 1994. In the meantime, the state printing company took over the machinery and the majority of the workers from the Leporello printing company SZÜV. At the end of 1997 a completely new line of business, the production and personalization of PVC cards, entered the portfolio of the state printing company. The development started at the beginning of 1998 with the realization of a new and modern company in the area in Fátyolka Gasse, which was further developed in 2000 and was also suitable for chip card production. The document security laboratory - the center of their research and development activities - was founded in 1999 by the state printing company. The state printing plant began its international expansion in 2004. Through cooperation with their local partners, he founded a joint company in Romania and Bulgaria , and subsidiaries were created in Slovakia and Russia .
Products
The main activity of the state printing house includes the production of security products such as sealing stamps, securities, food stamps, postage stamps, paper-based documents, security inks and solutions developed by the document security laboratory. As part of a consortium, the state printing company produces the card-shaped identification documents, these are: ID card, driver's license, car record book, student ID. In addition to these card documents, the company produces bank cards with chips for VISA and MASTERCARD, top-up cards for mobile phones, and intelligent cards for digitized signatures. The company also takes part in the development and manufacture of products with RFID technology. The Staatsdruckerei Group personalizes and envelopes printed matter for banks and insurance institutes, as well as generating invoices, delivery notes, and printed and unprinted fan-fold paper. The Gyomaer Kner printing company , which produces books, magazines and various printed matter, belongs to the state printing group .
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- Géza Buzinkay: The state printing house is 150 years old (150 éves az Állami Nyomda), 2001, ISBN 963-85674-1-4
- State printing annual report, 2001