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Côte d’Ivoire picks French firm Vet’Tronic for RFID livestock tagging as pilot of 20,000 animals starts in December

Côte d’Ivoire picks French firm Vet’Tronic for RFID livestock tagging as pilot of 20,000 animals starts in December

Côte d’Ivoire starts tagging livestock in December 2026 under a 12-month pilot covering 20,000 electronic ear tags and 5,000 pet chips, paid for by French supplier Vet’Tronic out of its…

RFID News weekly digest, 29 October 2026

Thursday's email in full, now open to everyone: 14 stories, led by Interview: Gary Moskovciak on the RFID Business Case and the Limits of Cheaper Tags.

NZ wine bottler WineWorks uses Nedap long-range RFID to open gates for its electric tug trains

NZ wine bottler WineWorks uses Nedap long-range RFID to open gates for its electric tug trains

An expansion put a waterway between two buildings at WineWorks' Marlborough bottling plant. A conveyor proved too costly, so pallets travel by electric tug and trailer instead, with Nedap uPASS…

Zebra posts record $1.6bn quarter, but its RFID and automation segment grows slowest

Zebra posts record $1.6bn quarter, but its RFID and automation segment grows slowest

Net sales hit $1,614m in the quarter ended 3 October 2026, up 22.3% reported but 11.3% organic once Elo Touch and currency come out. The Asset Visibility & Automation segment,…

NXP Q3: industrial surges, mobile slips, and RFID stays hidden inside the numbers

NXP Q3: industrial surges, mobile slips, and RFID stays hidden inside the numbers

Revenue of $3.79bn for the quarter ended 27 September 2026, with Industrial and IoT up 39 per cent and Mobile down 4 per cent. Neither figure is an RFID number:…

How RFID tracked tool containers at France’s Fessenheim nuclear plant before its closure

How RFID tracked tool containers at France’s Fessenheim nuclear plant before its closure

Dozens of metal tool containers at France's Fessenheim nuclear station were tagged with Xerafy on-metal UHF tags and read with handhelds, running on Nexess NexCap software. The site projected a…

Impinj tag chip revenue hits record $97m as demand outpaces supply

Impinj tag chip revenue hits record $97m as demand outpaces supply

Impinj sold a record number of RAIN RFID tag chips in the quarter to 30 September 2026, taking endpoint IC revenue to $97.3m, and still could not meet demand. The…

Choosing the Right RFID Tag for Your Environment

Choosing the Right RFID Tag for Your Environment

The wrong tag fails in any environment, and the right tag fails in the wrong one. Frequency comes first: LF for metal and liquid tolerance at centimetre range, HF for…

The Barcode Warehouse adds MishiPay’s RFID and scan-and-go checkout to UK retail portfolio

The Barcode Warehouse adds MishiPay’s RFID and scan-and-go checkout to UK retail portfolio

The Barcode Warehouse has added MishiPay's cloud checkout platform to its UK range, bringing RFID-enabled checkout, scan-and-go and self-checkout kiosks to the Newark reseller's portfolio. No UK retailer has signed…

Madhya Pradesh trials AI checkgates in Morena days before RFID tag deadline for mining trucks

Madhya Pradesh trials AI checkgates in Morena days before RFID tag deadline for mining trucks

Madhya Pradesh has given mineral hauliers until about 6 November 2026 to fit a radio frequency tag, but in Morena two AI checkgates and a 45 metre surveillance tower only…

Argentine polo mallet maker Logi Polo tracks every handmade mallet with RFID

Argentine polo mallet maker Logi Polo tracks every handmade mallet with RFID

An Argentine workshop of around 20 people has put an RFID chip in every polo mallet it makes, tied to the customer order and read at each bench as the…