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Line 1: {{Use Australian English\|date=May 2024}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox company \| name = Note Printing Australia \| logo = Note_Printing_Australia_logo.png \| type = [[Subsidiary]] \| industry = Printing \| founded = {{Start date and age\|1998\|06\|01}} in [[Craigieburn, Victoria\|Craigieburn]], Australia \| hq_location = 1/9 Potter Street \| hq_location_city = Craigieburn \| hq_location_country = Australia \| area_served = Australia \| products = {{Unbulleted list\|Bank notes\|Passports}} \| parent = [[Reserve Bank of Australia]] \| website = {{URL\|https://www.noteprinting.com/history}} }} '''Note Printing Australia''' (NPA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the [[Reserve Bank of Australia]] (RBA) that produces [[banknote]]s and [[passport]]s. It was corporatised in July 1998 and is located in [[Craigieburn, Victoria\|Craigieburn]], Melbourne. NPA has its origins as a subsidiary of the [[Commonwealth Bank]] and was established in 1913 to print banknotes for Australia. After printing paper banknotes for 75 years, NPA introduced the first [[polymer banknote]] technology in 1988. NPA print banknotes for several other countries as well as Australia due to the high standards of durability and difficulty of counterfeiting. ==NPA polymer banknotes== In the mid 1960s Australia was hit by forgeries of the newly introduced [[Australian ten-dollar note\|$10 paper decimal note]].<ref name="Our Currency">{{cite web\|title=Our Currency \|url=http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/currency.html \|website=Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade \|publisher=Australian Government \|accessdate=16 June 2014 \|date=November 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928075611/http://dfat.gov.au/facts/currency.html \|archivedate=28 September 2011 }}</ref><ref name="The Money Changers">{{cite news\|last1=Shand\|first1=Adam\|title=The money changers\|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/the-money-changers/story-e6frg6z6-1226387544763#\|accessdate=16 June 2014\|work=[[The Australian]]\|publisher=News Corp Australia\|date=8 June 2012~~}}{{paywall~~\|url-access=subscription\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608103948/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/the-money-changers/story-e6frg6z6-1226387544763\|archive-date=2012-06-08}}</ref> In response, the [[Reserve Bank of Australia]] and Note Printing Australia commissioned the [[CSIRO]] to find better ways to secure the Australian currency. This led to the development of the [[polymer banknote]], which the NPA took into production and introduced in 1988.<ref name="Our Currency" /> NPA has since focused heavily in promoting the benefits of the polymer technology they developed. According to internal RBA documents, NPA's printing costs in 2012 were 34¢ per note.<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Shand\|first1=Adam\|title=RBA 'wasting $50m a year' on print subsidiary\|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/print-subsidiary-costing-a-mint/story-fn59nsif-1226482958793#\|accessdate=13 June 2014\|work=The Australian\|publisher=News Corp Australia\|date=28 September 2012}}</ref> ===Use of ~~NPA~~ polymer banknote technology byin Australia and other countries=== While NPA ~~licences~~was ~~their~~initially ~~polymer~~involved ~~banknote~~in ~~technology~~the toproduction ~~other~~of ~~countries~~the ~~for~~polymer ~~use~~substrate, a subsidiary company was created in ~~the~~1996 ~~production~~that effectively removed NPA from this aspect of ~~their~~the ~~own~~banknote supply chain. Today, polymer substrate is manufactured in Australia by CCL Secure, which is wholly owned by [[CCL Industries]], a Canadian publicly listed company. Polymer banknotes are now issued in more than 60 countries worldwide, including [[Canada]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/currency_polymer.pdf\|title=Backgrounder on Canada's new polymer bank note series\|publisher=Bank of Canada\|date=June 2011\|ref={{harvid\|Bank of Canada\|June 2011}} }}</ref> Since 1988, NPA has printed more than 10 billion banknotes for 19 countries on more than 80 denominations.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.noteprinting.com/our-customers\|title=Our Customers}}</ref> NPA has won numerous awards for its business and printing capability. In 2020, NPA won the Currency Services Award by the London-based industry organisation ''Central Banking''<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.noteprinting.com/newsacrhive/2020/2/7/npa-honoured-to-receive-central-banking-award\|title = Npa Honoured to Receive Central Banking Award\| date=7 February 2020 }}</ref> and won a Printing Industry Craftsmanship Awards Gold Medal for the design and production of the Solomon Islands new $5 polymer banknote.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.noteprinting.com/newsacrhive/2020/7/22/solomon-islands-5-wins-printing-excellence-gold-medal\|title = Solomon Islands $5 Wins Printing Excellence Gold Medal\| date=22 July 2020 }}</ref> These notes contain trace amounts of tallow which is a hard animal fat. In the UK, some vegans, vegetarians and certain religious groups have objected to the introduction of polymer notes for this reason.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Vegans, vegetarians angry tallow animal fat used in Britain's new polymer banknotes.\|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-30/anger-over-animal-fat-used-in-britian's-new-polymer-currency/8077676\|accessdate=30 November 2016\|publisher=ABC News}}</ref> ==Printing equipment== Line 20 ⟶ 35: ==External links== * {{official website\|https://www.noteprinting.com/}} {{coord\|display=title\|-37.612974\|144.943453\|type:landmark_region:AU}} Line 27 ⟶ 42: [[Category:Mints of Australia]] [[Category:Commonwealth Government-owned companies of Australia]] [[Category:~~1913~~Australian ~~establishments~~companies established in ~~Australia~~1913]] [[Category:Banknote printing companies]] [[Category:Reserve Bank of Australia]] [[Category:Printing companies of Australia]] [[Category:Companies based in Melbourne]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in the City of Hume]]