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SMARTRAC Announces the Milestone of 20 million
RFID-Inlays Production and Shipment
Other Topics: RFID Oil and Gas,
RFID Patient Care,
RFID USB Stick
SMARTRAC
July 21, 2008
Europe-based SMARTRAC recently announced an all-time high in
production and shipments of its RFID components.
In June 2008, production and shipments of RFID components from
SMARTRAC's production location in Thailand for the first time
exceeded 20 million units in one single month.
"This production milestone underlines our leading market position
and our commitment to provide significant volumes of high quality
inlays. Our high production numbers also show our competence to
handle large customer projects within short lead times", says
Manfred Rietzler, Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of SMARTRAC. |
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Located in the province Ayutthaya , SMARTRAC runs four factories in
Thailand . One of which is a high security production facility for
the manufacturing of inlays that are used in ePayment and eID
applications and has successfully passed numerous stringent
qualification processes. The other three factories are manufacturing
facilities for standard inlays including applications such as
logistics, animal ID, mass transport and access control.
The majority of inlays is manufactured with SMARTRAC's advanced and
proprietary wire-embedding technology. For an increasing number of
inlays the two additional antenna technologies etching and
coil-winding are applied.
Within its worldwide production network, SMARTRAC also maintains
production locations in Brazil , the USA and Germany . The second
largest production located in the Manaus province in Brazil , where
the company mostly produces RFID inlays for the local market,
accounts for a production capacity of some two million units a
month.
SMARTRAC is currrently building up an additional factory in Malysia
for the production of aluminium based etched antennas for eTickets.
These tickets are mainly used in cost-sensitive areas such as
libraries or mass transport.
In addition to the ordered volumes, SMARTRAC also holds excess
capacity to guarantee short turnaround times in unexpected projects
as the RFID market in large parts is a project driven market.
Quick turnaround times and the ability to ramp up the production
capacity to accommodate customer requirements, in large parts is
supported by SMARTRAC's particular machine building subsidiary Xytec
that designs and assembles the manufacturing equipment used in the
groups' worldwide production facilities. With this competitive
advantage, the company is well positioned to participate in the
further growth of the RFID market.
SMARTRAC is a leading supplier of RFID components for Standard and
High Security product segments. In the Standard segment, the company
produces ready-made components for RFID applications in public
transport, access control, and logistics. In the High Security
segment, SMARTRAC is the global leader in high-quality RFID inlays
for passports with integrated, contactless chips (ePassports)
and contactless credit cards (ePayment).
SMARTRAC was founded in 2000 and since going public in July 2006 has
been trading as a stock corporation under Dutch law with its
registered headquarters in Amsterdam . The company currently employs
some 2.600 employees around the globe. |
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