How Converters Can Make RFID Labels
Converters can participate in many ways
Participation in this business is becoming possible at various degrees of vertical integration. For example, one may take tested RFID inserts, otherwise called inlays, from a company such as UPM Raflatac. These are naked, working RFID tags and may be sourced as reels of polyester film with the RFID microchip and the antenna on top, in a repeated sequence. Most RFID labels use a chip and a connected antenna allowing them to “talk” to an electronic interrogator at a distance. This is a form of radio, thus the term Radio Frequency Identification. Doing the minimum, a converter may simply take these inserts (naked tags) and protect them with paper or plastic on either side, applied by a reel-to-reel process. These unprinted reels of RFID labels may then be sold to a customer.
