George Greenlee is the Head of Training at the RAIN Alliance. His vision in this role is to drive market awareness and adoption of Rain technologies by providing top class training and certification, in person and online, to the industry. Since graduating from Trinity College, George has gained 30 years
The RAIN Alliance recently held a Tire Masterclass for engineers, technicians, and technical leaders responsible for implementing sustainable RAIN tags in the tire industry. The course took place in March at the Tire Technology Expo and featured contributions from twelve companies and 25 experts. The course covered various aspects related to
Grenoble, France, June 6, 2023 – Primo1D, a world leader in smart embedded Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, today announced a paradigm shift in the way textiles are recycled. By using Primo1D’s RFID E-Thread embedded into Decathlon garments, the company reached a major milestone to demonstrate that its RFID technology is fully
Numerous retailers that are deploying RAIN have adopted this U.S Plastics Pact goal: 100% of plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025. To ensure that RAIN supports this goal, the RAIN Alliance has established a Plastics Packaging Tiger Team (PPTT) whose role is to: Prioritize plastic packaging waste streams and
Shreyans Bengani has extensive experience as a third-generation entrepreneur and director at Ecartes Technology, focusing on new identity, tracking, and security management technologies and solutions. Tell us about Ecartes and about you. Initially, the company was incorporated in 1995 as Bengani Electrotech Pvt Ltd until CEO Rajendra Bengani came along
Portland, OR, June 6, 2023 . . . In 2022, Walmart announced the company will require many suppliers to perform RFID tagging on products for sale before shipping them. With a target date of September 2022 for this mandate, many suppliers rushed to meet the demand of the mega-retailer. However
As part of our ongoing series of RAIN Alliance member profiles, we asked Metalcraft’s Colynn Black about his work and the challenges tag and label manufacturers, like Metalcraft, face in today’s RAIN market. Tell us about yourself and introduce Metalcraft. I have been with Metalcraft for about six
17 - 19 October, Wiesbaden, Germany RAIN Alliance is thrilled to invite you to join us for our European event this October, co-located with Wireless IoT Tomorrow, Europe’s leading wireless IoT event. On October 17th RAIN Alliance working groups will hold their impactful face-to-face group meetings. October 18th is the
TWINSBURG, OH, 9 May 2023 /Business Wire/ — Hana RFID, the IC-Independent RFID Inlay and Tire Tag Provider, is expanding its RAIN Inlay production by nearly 250% in the next 12 months while exploring new and additional locations in Europe and Asia. With three state-of-the-art factories located in the United States,
Each year, the RAIN Alliance conducts a research project to analyze and report on the growth rate of worldwide RAIN TAG IC shipments by collecting data from top manufacturers. The 2022 report consists of data received from four RAIN Alliance members: Impinj, EM Microelectronics, NXP, and Quanray. Here are the key takeaways