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Weyerhaeuser Offers High-Volume Source Tagging, But Demand Still Low The company is supplying pretagged cardboard boxes to several of its customers, and plans to license its process for manufacturing RFID-tagged cardboard to International Paper and other firms.

German Study Shows Companies Dissatisfied With RFID's Ability to Meet Goals Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and P3 say businesses don't appreciate how RFID can help improve the efficiency of numerous business processes.

R&D Firm Developing Passive Ultra-Wideband RFID Martec says its system will offer improved read range and other benefits compared with traditional passive RFID tags, and cost less than systems using active tags.

Startup Service Adds Smarts to Fine Wine A company named eProvenance is employing a combination of semi-active and passive RFID tags, as well as specialized ink, to track and authenticate bottles "from château to consumer."

Companies, Agencies Use Clandestine RFID Systems to Catch Thieves The NOX system includes RFID readers embedded in walls, surveillance cameras and—in some cases—luminescent dust to track the movement of personnel and assets.

Cost Plus World Market Finds RFID Sweet Spot in Yard Management The specialty retailer has deployed an RFID-based real-time location system to monitor trailers arriving at its main distribution center in Northern California, and to expedite the receipt of goods.

Apparel Manufacturer Suits Up With RFID A Japanese clothing maker places garments on hangars fitted with EPC Gen 2 tags, enabling it to track the items during their final stages of production.

Wal-Mart-Commissioned Study Shows RFID Improves Store Inventory Accuracy University of Arkansas researchers found that RFID can reduce the degree of understated perpetual inventory by 13 percent, thereby helping retailers to lower their costs.

Printer-Encoder Order Represents New DOD Milestone Lowry Computer's $8.7 million contract for 1,804 EPC Gen 2 RFID printer-encoders will enable defense distribution depots to extend RFID use further down the supply chain.

RFID Paves the Way for Road Construction Road crews are piloting an application using battery-assisted UHF tags to track asphalt from the time it leaves the plant to when it arrives at a work site.