Vietnam hospital tracks every gown’s wash count with RFID in Japanese-funded laundry
Le Van Thinh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has processed 72.6 tonnes of linen across more than 3,170 wash batches since June 2025, with RFID counting every cycle each…
Counterfeit Napoli shirts pass the same NFC authenticity check as the real ones
Counterfeit SSC Napoli centenary shirts made in Hong Kong now clone the NFC chip in the Authentic patch and return the club's own congratulatory message. A working authentication chip adds…
AP-HM to tag linen with RFID after losing 60,000 sheets a year across its Marseille hospitals
Around 60,000 bed sheets vanish each year from the four Marseille hospitals run by AP-HM, an estimated 400,000 EUR of linen. The group's central logistics platform, which treats 12 to…
ELIS España deploys Lavandercode RFID tracking across five laundry plants
Five ELIS España laundry plants are running LavanderCode's LavanderTrace RFID system, with every garment tagged and read through arches at reception, wash and despatch. The Madrid software house says it…
Hospital Albert Einstein saves R$1.5m a year on linen with RFID
Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo has saved R$1.5 million a year on linen control alone, with 120,000 textile pieces individually tagged and 500 rooms inventoried by RFID reading…
Lefties opens first UK store at Liverpool ONE with RFID self-checkout
Inditex has put RFID self-checkout into its value brand for the first UK time, at a 27,000 sq ft Liverpool ONE store. The interesting question is not the technology but…
Avery Dennison and Scouting America put NFC inside 2026 Jamboree patches
Two tap-enabled patches appeared at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in July 2026: one drove a site-wide check-in game, the other opened a video keepsake. Avery Dennison supplied the tags. Here…
Sainsbury’s deploys RFID to Tu in 400 stores
Tu clothing is getting RFID in 400 Sainsbury's stores, with full implementation reported for early next month after a successful pilot. Clothing MD Ben Smith says the technology lets the…
Case Study: Southern Fried Cotton – 98% Reduction in Chargebacks with RFID
A two-second portal read at the packing station cut chargebacks by 98 per cent for Southern Fried Cotton, a small apparel brand with no dedicated IT department. Item-level EPC encoding…
Avery Dennison ships the first UCODE X inlays – eight months from chip launch to a globally tuned inlay
Eight months after NXP launched UCODE X, Avery Dennison has shipped ARC certified inlays built on it. The AD Miniweb Global UCODE X packs a 42 by 16 mm antenna…
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