RFID components supplier SMARTRAC says that for the first time, production and shipments of RFID components from its production location in Thailand exceeded 20 million units in one single month.

“This production milestone underlines our leading market position and our commitment to provide significant volumes of high quality inlays. Our high production numbers also show our competence to handle large customer projects within short lead times”, says Manfred Rietzler, chief technical officer of SMARTRAC.

SMARTRAC runs four factories in Thailand. One is a high security production facility for the manufacture of inlays used in ePayment and eID applications. The other three are manufacturing facilities for standard inlays including applications such as logistics, animal ID, mass transport and access control.

The majority of inlays is manufactured with SMARTRAC’s advanced and proprietary wire-embedding technology. For an increasing number of inlays the two additional antenna technologies etching and coil-winding are applied.

In addition to the ordered volumes, SMARTRAC holds excess capacity to guarantee short turnaround times in unexpected projects as the RFID market in large parts is a project driven market.