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Taiwanese company launches mass RFID production line

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Favite, an RFID component manufacturer based in Taiwan, has announced the opening of a new production line for RFID antennas, inlays and tags. The company claims the new production facility has the capacity to produce up to 600 million components per year.


The Favite production line includes manufacturing facilities for copper-plated antenna, along with inlays with flip-chip bonding technology and high-speed tag converting. The company reports the performance of their copper-plated antenna is nearly the same as copper-etched antennas for half the production cost. Favite representatives say it is the first company to set up a mass production line for copper-plated antenna process.

Favite also offers a range of customizing options at its new facility, including tag conversion to fit a range of tag forms including paper-based ISO cards, event tickets, airline baggage tags and a variety of label sizes. The company also customizes antennas to increase signal sensitivity and read range in order to meet specific application environmental requirements. [end] 

Tallahassee-based Florida A&M University and campus card service provider CardSmith have announced plans to upgrade the university’s multi-functional Rattler Card program.

The new Rattler Card will feature Rattler Bucks, a prepaid spending account offering FAMU’s more than 13,000 students cashless access to an expanded range of campus facilities and services including the bookstore, dining venues, mobile payments, campus offices and off-campus merchants.

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TrackIT Solutions, an RFID solutions provider based in the Middle East, announced the launch of EnTrackAsset, a Web-enabled RFID tracking solution designed to streamline and automate corporate asset management.

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Tyler Technologies has rolled out its new Versatrans Student Tracking product for installation in school buses to identify which students get off at which stops and when.

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survey conducted on behalf of MasterCard Worldwide by Harris Interactive reveals that U.S. transit riders are ready to kick cash to the curb in favor of contactless payments. Commuters also want to consolidate their mass transit tickets into one card that can be use across multiple transit systems.

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AIB Merchant Services, a merchant acquiring joint venture between First Data Corporation and Allied Irish Banks p.l.c, announced the launch of its first contactless payment terminals, activated at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, in Dublin.

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Identive Group announced the launch of SmartCore, an RFID card core manufacturing technology that enables surface quality and printability of contactless ID and access cards.

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