Thanks to financial incentives offered by the state, French RFID inlay maker ASK-IntTag has moved into a former IBM assembly plant in Essex Junction, Vermont. The company, in a joint effort with Wisconsin’s WS Packaging, will adapt the facilities to produce inlays for use in drivers’ licenses, passports and transit cards. Vermont’s Department of Economic […]

China’s Daily RFID has launched a new mini RFID tag for metal surfaces. The tag, measuring just 9 millimeters in diameter, uses a 3M-designed self-adhesive backing to attach to any metal surface. The 13.56 MHz RFID Metal Tag-08 is compliant with ISO 15693 and ISO 14443 standards. The tag offers a read range of up […]

Digant Technologies has announced an updated version of its HF RFID reader/writer modules. The new modules’ capabilities have been expanded to enable use with Scosta CL cards and tags in addition to MiFare devices. The OEM modules, which come in a small format with an external antenna, or a slightly larger format which includes an […]

PowerID Ltd., an Israeli provider of battery-assisted passive (BAP) RFID technology, has released new versions of two of its popular BAP labels. The PowerG and PowerM labels are 56% and 62% smaller, respectively, than their previous incarnations, but have not suffered any performance loss in it the shrinking process. The two BAP labels were originally […]

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago have developed an RFID-based tracking system which allows them to monitor the condition of containers of nuclear waste with the click of a mouse. The system could augment the DOE’s current management system, which is charged with monitoring tens of thousands of […]

Seattle-based RFID provid Impinj laid off 23 employees last Thursday as a result of the general worldwide economic downturn. The company has also begun making cuts in the number of contract workers it employs, as well as other unspecified cuts in expenses. According to an Impinj spokesperson, the layoffs are not the result of specific […]

Despite the worsening global economic picture, revenue from RFID technology sales will still hit $5.6 billion by the end of 2009, according to ABI Research’s latest market survey. The firm’s data indicates that while some project deployments have been delayed or canceled, the market does continue to grow in a fragmented fashion. ABI’s report says […]

Swiss-based RFID tag provider INGECOM has announced a second generation of its low-cost line of ActiveRFID tags and controllers. The tags are priced at around $7. The new tags are roughly half the size of a credit card, have an outdoor read range of 200 meters and an indoor range of 30 to 50 meters, […]

First Volkswagen, now beer; IBM continues to bring RFID-related innovations to products near and dear to a German’s heart. Ringnes, Norway’s largest brewery and a part of the Carlsberg Group, has announced its deployment of IBM RFID-enabled solutions to improve its logistics operations. The Ringnes shipping system handles almost half a billion liters of beer […]

Pepsico has informed its customers that in the next few months, its Quaker Foods, Gatorade, and Tropicana divisions will begin using RFID-enabled plastic pallets exclusively to deliver their products. The company will use pallets from the Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS) LLC pallet rental firm. In a letter sent to customers last week, Pepsico elaborated […]