TechniGraphics, Inc. was a multi-national company with its headquarters in

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, USA. It was involved in geospatial and engineering services. In November 2010, the company was acquired by

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International Inc.

History

TechniGraphics started out as Technicolor Graphic Services (TGS), a division of the "Color by Technicolor" company. The company began working with early GIS systems like

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and

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in 1982, progressing with the maturing industry to ESRI's ArcInfo in 1989, and most recently to the object-based GIS embodied in ArcGIS 9.0. The company abbreviated its name to TechniGraphics, Inc. in 2005. The company was acquired by Dee and Mary Vaidya in 1993 and turned around with the help of the former Rubbermaid CEO,

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, who became a shareholder, when he purchased the shares of an earlier partner of the Vaidya's. The Fort Collins, Colorado, company was a federal contractor and produced digital maps for the

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and the Defense Mapping Agency. In 2002, to win additional volume of work for the same kind of digital maps it had produced since inception, TechniGraphics again applied to be a prime contractor, this time to the

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, and in 2003 was awarded a 10-year, $200 million Prime Contract that led to explosive growth for the organization. In 2006, the company purchased the $10 million per year Product Lifecycle Management business of

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and another $5 million per year company, Axiom Systems. These purchases added six offices, almost 100 people and expanded the company into

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. TechniGraphics acquired another similar company, CUTit, in Germany in 2007, which firmly established it in the engineering services field. In 2010, TechniGraphics' Geospatial activity was purchased by

. The engineering services activity was spun off to form a new company, Noble Technologies, d.b.a NobleTek. On May 21, 2013, CACI closed its operations in Wooster.

Locations

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External links

TechniGraphics website (no longer valid)

Noble Technologies Corp. dba NobleTek
Companies established in 1993 Companies based in Wooster, Ohio

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