Alliance One Turns Over a New Leaf in Tobacco Handling
In Brazil, RFID brings new efficiencies to product sorting and storage.
By John Edwards
Jan. 23, 2012—Tobacco has been processed and organized in pretty much the same fashion for hundreds of years. But now, as in so many other industries, radio frequency identification is changing everything.
In Brazil, tobacco processor Alliance One Brasil Exportadora de Tabacos is pioneering the use of RFID for sorting and storing tobacco. The company turned to the technology with the goals of improving operational efficiency and minimizing mistakes and costs, says Dilnei Alexandre Haas, the Alliance One systems analyst in charge of the project.
Alliance On, with the help of approximately 4,000 permanent and temporary workers, processes more than 220,000 tons of tobacco annually. In 2010, the company was Brazil's 59th largest exporting company, with gross revenues of US$536.5 million—a figure representing 20 percent of the country's entire tobacco export market.
Jan. 23, 2012—Tobacco has been processed and organized in pretty much the same fashion for hundreds of years. But now, as in so many other industries, radio frequency identification is changing everything.
In Brazil, tobacco processor Alliance One Brasil Exportadora de Tabacos is pioneering the use of RFID for sorting and storing tobacco. The company turned to the technology with the goals of improving operational efficiency and minimizing mistakes and costs, says Dilnei Alexandre Haas, the Alliance One systems analyst in charge of the project.
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| Bales of tobacco at Alliance One's facility |
Alliance On, with the help of approximately 4,000 permanent and temporary workers, processes more than 220,000 tons of tobacco annually. In 2010, the company was Brazil's 59th largest exporting company, with gross revenues of US$536.5 million—a figure representing 20 percent of the country's entire tobacco export market.
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