In response to growing demand for cases that can be tracked and traced and often reused, the company's Hinckley site has perfected a way of incorporating RFID tags into the inside of its CA and CAA flute corrugated containers.
Two UK SCA converting plants offer the Easytrak system and are currently inserting the RFID tags inside the cases manually during erection. Mark Furman, the SCA market manager responsible for the development, says: "We developed this system in response to growing demand for RFID tagging from producers of everything from bulk transported frozen peas to aircraft and automotive parts.
Tagging these large cases – we have developed an off-the-shelf returnable Tecnitrack system based on one of our 1,200x1,000mm returnable Tecnipack cases – requires no particularly innovative design work; it's more a matter of careful experimentation on the best tag location for good read rates."
Furman says SCA can work with whatever RFID tags the customer specifies – active or passive, read only or read-write and HF or UHF. He adds: "SCA is now looking into developing systems for incorporating tags during corrugation, but to date we have not identified a sufficiently robust tag material."
