Magicard, a worldwide leader in ID card manufacturing and a business unit of Ultra Electronics, the British security and defense group, announces the opening of its new office in the Airport Free Zone of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Ultra Electronics in Weymouth is celebrating today (19th July) after staging a double-event with the official opening of its new high-technology Magicard printer design facility in Weymouth and also the presentation of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset in a garden party setting within Bennett’s Water Gardens in Chickerell.
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UltraCoverPlus, the industry-leading support package offered with Magicard Professional series ID card printers, is now 50% longer at a full 3 years.
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Ultra announces that it has been awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. The award is for the Magicard Alto range of identity card printers designed and supplied by Ultra’s Manufacturing Card Systems business in Weymouth.
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Ultra Electronics wins the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation.
Please read the news article written by James Tourgout from the Dorset Echo.

RoHS (Restriction of the use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment) is an EU directive which has been turned into law in most EU member states, and which stipulates that all applicable products must be compliant by 1 July 2006. The RoHS Regulations ban the placing on the EU market of products containing more than the set levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, and other hazardous materials. The effect of RoHS is that products that do not conform cannot legally be sold in the EU after 1 July 2006.
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Due to a sustained growth in sales, Ultra Electronics Card Systems has invested in a major new production facility for its Magicard ID card printers. Built as a new mezzanine floor within the Weymouth, United Kingdom factory, the 4,000 sq. feet facility represents an investment of over £270,000 ($500,000). Peter Macfarlane, Chairman of parent company Ultra Electronics Holdings, opened the new facility, which is now in full operation.
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The Magicard Avalon is the new entry level ID badge printer from Ultra Electronics Card Systems.

Magicard printers are the only brand that automatically prints an anti card-copying watermark onto the card during the print cycle. It costs nothing to print the Holokote™ watermark – standard dye film ribbons are used to print on standard CR80-sized PVC cards.
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