RFID Label Manufacturer

RFID label types we manufacture

This page covers our converting line: flexible labels and the wet and dry inlays inside them. Housed industrial tags — laundry chips, on-metal housings, ceramic tags — are built on a separate molding line (see the RFID tag factory page), and consumer NFC marketing stickers have their own program. What stays here is everything that runs roll-to-roll: face stock, adhesive, inlay, printing and encoding, converted into the label families below.

• 60M+Labels per month capacity
• <0.3 mmPrint registration accuracy
• 100%Inline encoding verification
• 7-10 daysCustom label lead time

• UHF RAIN RFID paper labels. Cost-effective labels for retail item-level tagging, shipping cartons and pallet labels where environmental durability is not critical.
• UHF synthetic labels: polyester and polypropylene labels for warehouse asset tags, outdoor equipment, and environments with moisture, chemicals or temperature extremes.
• NFC HF labels — 13.56 MHz labels for product authentication, smart packaging, library books and document tracking where tap-to-read NFC interaction is needed.
• Tamper-evident RFID labels. Frangible adhesive or destructible face stock that visibly shows evidence of removal, used for pharmaceutical serialization, warranty seals and anti-counterfeiting.
• Jewelry RFID labels: miniature UHF labels with fold-over or hang-tag designs specifically engineered for rings, necklaces and watches without affecting item presentation.
• Tire RFID labels: heat-resistant UHF labels designed for vulcanization embedding or post-cure application on automotive and commercial tires.

Wet inlays, dry inlays and who buys at which stage

Label converters buy components; end users buy finished labels. The split matters because the same chip and antenna ships in two formats: a wet inlay carries pressure-sensitive adhesive and a release liner, ready for lamination into label stock, while a dry inlay is bare film for card lamination and over-molding. Sourcing at the right stage keeps the converting margin — face stock, print, die-cut — in your house instead of ours.

• Wet inlays: chip-on-PET with permanent acrylic adhesive and glassine or PET release liner, supplied on 76 mm (3-inch) cores at 2,000-10,000 inlays per roll.
• Roll geometry matched to your cassette: web widths of 45 / 50 / 58 / 76 / 100 mm and pitches from 14 to 35 mm, held to ±0.5 mm pitch tolerance and ±0.3 mm chip position.
• Dry inlays: the same chip and antenna with no adhesive and no liner, engineered for heat-press card lamination and injection over-molding rather than label converting.
• Converter line compatibility: rolls configured for Mark Andy, Nilpeter, MPS, Edale, Bobst and OMET converting lines running at 50-150 m/min.
• 100% RF testing at the inlay stage: every inlay is read-tested inline and rejects are flagged and excluded; orders of 50,000+ ship with a sensitivity histogram, yield report and EPC manifest in CSV or XML.

Adhesives, face stocks and liners

Adhesive selection is the specification converters and end users most often get wrong, and after metal surfaces it is the most common cause of field failure. We grade adhesives per FINAT test methods and match them to the face stock and the end-use temperature profile — state both on the RFQ and we specify the rest, with 100-piece sample rolls available for qualification.

• General-purpose permanent acrylic for paper and cardboard at room temperature — FINAT FTM 2 peel adhesion of 18 N/25 mm or better.
• Cryo-grade all-temperature acrylic rated to -40 °C for cold-chain and frozen applications; standard acrylic loses bond below -5 °C.
• Low-surface-energy rubber-based or modified acrylic for polyethylene, polypropylene and PE-coated papers that standard adhesives cannot wet out.
• Removable low-tack acrylic for returnable assets and temporary promotions where the label must peel cleanly.
• Face stocks by environment: thermal-transfer paper indoors, polyester and polypropylene for moisture and chemicals, polyimide for temperatures up to +200 °C, and cryogenic stocks for -196 °C specimen labels.
• Liners: 61 gsm glassine standard, with PET liner specified for converting lines above 50 m/min where glassine risks tearing.

Production and converting capabilities

Converting runs as a single inline pass wherever possible — inlay insertion, printing, encoding, verification, die-cutting and rewinding. The steps below are identical whether the order is 5,000 custom labels or a million-label retail program; only roll formatting and QC sampling depth change with scale.

1. 1. Inlay insertion

   Automated wet inlay insertion and lamination on high-speed converting lines.

2. 2. Printing

   Flexographic or digital printing with barcodes, logos, text and sequential numbering.

3. 3. Encoding

   100% inline encoding and verification at converting speed; defective labels auto-flagged.

4. 4. Die-cutting

   Custom die-cut to any label size from 15x15 mm to 100x150 mm.

5. 5. Roll formatting

   Labels on 76 mm cores, configured for your applicator pitch and winding direction.

• Inlay insertion: automated wet inlay insertion and lamination on high-speed converting lines processing up to 60 million labels per month.
• Flexographic and digital printing. Barcodes, logos, text, color graphics and sequential numbering printed directly on the RFID label face with registration accuracy under 0.3 mm.
• Roll formatting: labels supplied on standard 76 mm (3-inch) cores in roll counts from 500 to 10,000 labels per roll, with inter-label gap, pitch and winding direction configured for your applicator.
• Custom die-cutting: any label size from 15 × 15 mm NFC mini-tags to 100 × 150 mm shipping labels, with corner radius, tab and fold options.
• Encoding at converting speed — 100% of labels are encoded and verified inline during converting, with defective labels automatically flagged and marked for rejection.

Inline printing, encoding and label QC

RFID label programs fail audits on data, not on glue: wrong EPC schemes, duplicate serials, unreadable chips. Encoding and verification therefore run inline at converting speed, and the documentation pack is built during the run rather than reconstructed afterwards — so what arrives at your dock is traceable to roll position.

• Print and encode in one pass: barcodes, human-readable text and graphics print while the EPC is written and verified, with failed labels automatically marked for rejection.
• GS1 encoding service: SGTIN-96 and SSCC-96 schemes or custom formats, written from sequential, random or customer-supplied lists, with the EPC manifest keyed to roll position for downstream traceability.
• Printer-side compatibility: blank labels are supplied on standard 76 mm core rolls ready to print and encode on Zebra, SATO and Printronix RFID thermal-transfer printers if you encode in-house.
• AQL inspection: print quality, adhesive peel strength and dimensional accuracy sampled per ISO 2859-1 at AQL 1.0, with RF performance validated on Voyantic Tagformance test equipment.
• Per-shipment documentation: functional test report on the encoded lot plus RoHS / REACH material declarations and FCC / CE radio-conformity documentation.

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