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RFID Printing and Encoding: How Tags Are Made at Scale
Interview: Gary Moskovciak on the RFID Business Case and the Limits of Cheaper Tags
US cattle RFID mandate faces court test as ranchers seek to overturn USDA rule
Sainsbury’s confirms completed roll-out of clothing RFID across Tu in H1 2026/27 interim results
RFID for Asset Tracking: Beyond Inventory to Equipment Management
RFID Printing and Encoding: How Tags Are Made at Scale
Thousands of tags per hour move through a modern RFID label converter, each laminated, printed, encoded and verified before it ships. From wet inlays on a reel to serialised, application-ready…
Interview: Gary Moskovciak on the RFID Business Case and the Limits of Cheaper Tags
SML Group Chief Commercial Officer Gary Moskovciak on what a retailer actually puts in an RFID business case, which number convinces a board, where programmes stall after approval, and why…
US cattle RFID mandate faces court test as ranchers seek to overturn USDA rule
Cross-motions for summary judgment in R-CALF's challenge to the USDA electronic cattle eartag rule are listed for 18 November 2026 in Rapid City. The ranchers' sharpest point comes from the…
Sainsbury’s confirms completed roll-out of clothing RFID across Tu in H1 2026/27 interim results
Sainsbury's has finished installing item-level RFID across Tu clothing departments in around 400 UK stores, but its interim results statement gives the programme a single bullet point and no figures.…
RFID for Asset Tracking: Beyond Inventory to Equipment Management
Large organisations tagging their assets for the first time routinely discover the register is wrong: written-off equipment still in use, phantom entries, duplicates across cost centres. Mature RFID asset management…
CMA proposes forcing Apple to open iPhone NFC to HCE in the UK
The UK regulator wants Apple to open the iPhone NFC controller to Host Card Emulation, not just Secure Element, with the choice sitting with the developer. Two years after Apple…
Nedap revenue up 7% with growth in key markets of 9% in the third quarter of 2026
Nedap's third quarter 2026 revenue reached EUR 76.0 million, up 7 per cent on a year earlier, with retail among the strongest contributors. The retail RFID business added first time…
Post-Implementation Review: Measuring What Your RFID System Actually Delivered
Six to twelve months after go-live, most RFID systems have never been formally checked against the business case that justified them. Project teams move on, governance dissolves and underperformance goes…
Walmart’s 2003 RFID mandate: the push that pushed too far
In 2003 Walmart ordered its top 100 suppliers to tag every pallet and case with RFID by January 2005, and the mandate faltered under tag costs, immature hardware and supplier…
SBB reads rail vehicle IDs with RAIN RFID at 68 points up to 180 km/h
Swiss Federal Railways reads the ID of every passing rail vehicle at 68 trackside points, at anything from 5 to 180 km/h and through a Swiss winter. Kathrein RAIN RFID…
