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SML Plays Leading Role in RFID in Retail

SML produces 3 billion RFID tags annually and manages 450 million RFID tag reads on its software every week.

Today, RFID is reaching into many markets, but retail remains its stronghold. For SML, that is ideal, as its strength is in the retail market space, having produced 3 billion tags last year alone. SML’s beginnings came in 1985, when it first started making labels for apparel, and expanded its reach into southern China. Dean Frew, CTO and SVP, RFID Solutions for SML, noted that SML expanded into RFID in 2010, acquiring a company in North Carolina and a software company in Dallas in 2013. SML’s...

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