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CCL’s Checkpoint reports ‘good volume growth in RFID’ as segment sales edge up 1.8%

CCL’s Checkpoint reports ‘good volume growth in RFID’ as segment sales edge up 1.8%

RFID appears once in CCL Industries' third quarter 2026 release, in a line from chief executive Geoffrey Martin about good volume growth at Checkpoint. No number is attached to it.…

RFID News weekly digest, 5 November 2026

Thursday's email in full, now open to everyone: 31 stories, led by Prada’s NFC tags move beyond authentication to supply-chain traceability.

Taiwan’s Arizon RFID posts record quarter as monthly sales nearly double

Taiwan’s Arizon RFID posts record quarter as monthly sales nearly double

Arizon RFID has filed nine-month 2026 results showing revenue of NT$4.29bn and earnings of NT$4.90 a share. Its September and October monthly sales each rose about 90% against 2025. Growth…

Seoul’s Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital cuts device stock counts from 3 hours to 30 minutes with RFID

Seoul’s Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital cuts device stock counts from 3 hours to 30 minutes with RFID

A single consolidated RFID count at one in-hospital logistics centre has replaced three hours a day of manual stock checks by clinical staff at Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital in Seoul.…

Edgbaston’s RFID cups win RFID Project of the Year, with a 95.7% return rate across the season

Edgbaston’s RFID cups win RFID Project of the Year, with a 95.7% return rate across the season

Edgbaston Stadium and Levy have taken RFID Project of the Year at the 2026 RTIH Innovation Awards for their tagged reusable cup system. The award write-up puts the return rate…

Chainway fixed RFID readers are tracking production coils in a Michelin UK plant pilot

Chainway fixed RFID readers are tracking production coils in a Michelin UK plant pilot

Fixed UHF readers from Chainway now identify coils of production material automatically at winding and unwinding stations in a Michelin UK tyre plant, replacing manual records and MES keying. The…

Turkey targets 43 free-flow toll stations by December 2026

Turkey targets 43 free-flow toll stations by December 2026

Turkey's highways authority KGM is converting eight more toll stations, including Çeşme, Mersin and Suruç, to barrier-free free-flow tolling by December 2026, taking the total to 43 of 106. HGS…

RFID Tag Application Methods: Manual, Semi-Auto, and Fully Automated

RFID Tag Application Methods: Manual, Semi-Auto, and Fully Automated

A trained operator can apply 400 to 600 RFID labels an hour; an automated print-and-apply line can tag items faster than most production lines can feed it. Choosing between manual,…

Kathrein RFID readers power free-flow tolling on São Paulo’s Rodoanel Norte ring road

Kathrein RFID readers power free-flow tolling on São Paulo’s Rodoanel Norte ring road

Kathrein Solutions' RRU 7800 readers and WideRange 40 degree PRO antennas identify vehicles at highway speed on the Rodoanel Norte, the 44 km northern arc of São Paulo's ring road,…

Case Study: The South African Retailer That Couldn’t Make RFID Stick

Case Study: The South African Retailer That Couldn’t Make RFID Stick

A 120-store South African fashion chain spent heavily on RFID between 2018 and 2020, targeting a jump from 64 per cent inventory accuracy to above 90, and mothballed the system…

What the gates at shop doors actually detect

What the gates at shop doors actually detect

They cannot tell what you are carrying or whether you paid. Inside the two technologies in those grey pedestals, why a forgotten label beeps three shops later, the foil bag…