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How long will it take for completely environmentally friendly RFID tags to appear? The environmental label is very simple to say, it is to change the traditional etching technology into printing technology, reduce the pollution caused by etching and cleaning, and use paper base instead of PET as the printing material of RFID antenna.
How long will it take for completely environmentally friendly RFID tags to appear?
However, in doing so, there are many problems that need to be overcome. Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. has spent nearly 7 years continuously polishing its environmentally friendly antenna products. It has achieved mass production this year and has many applications abroad. In the next step, Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. hopes to target the Chinese domestic market and convey its eco-label products and concepts to the domestic RFID industry.
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Annual label shipments are about to exceed the 40 billion mark
Since the development of RFID technology, it has taken root in many fields such as retail, books, industry, logistics and warehousing. According to the research of AIoT Star Map Research Institute, the global shipment of UHF RFID tags is expected to reach 39 billion pieces in 2023. The market is developing at a high speed, and the shipment of tags is developing rapidly at an annual growth rate of 20%.
With such rapid development, more and more downstream customers choose RFID. However, with the in-depth understanding of RFID by downstream customers, a question has arisen in their minds: Is the production of tags environmentally friendly? As we all know, this is a major pain point in label production. During the production process, the antenna is made by etching and cleaned with pure water. This process will cause certain pollution to the environment. In the past, under the tone of "development first, governance later", many technologies were able to develop at a high speed. However, few people have carefully calculated the consequences of development.
How much damage to the environment does tens of billions of labels mean?
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As early as more than ten years ago, Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. was engaged in printing business in Dalang, and was inspected by the business. It thoroughly investigated many irregularities in the production process to meet the local standards for enterprise production and emission. This made Mr. Wu of Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. realize that environmental protection is a very important factor, and the current corroded antenna of RFID is very unenvironmental. It not only causes certain pollution, but also consumes a lot of energy and wastes some water. In time, the traditional etched antenna is expected to be replaced.
After calculation, Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. found that for every 20 billion RFID tags produced, 2.2 million kilograms of PET will be used, which translates into an area of about 30 square kilometers of PET film. Calculated according to the current annual label shipments, it is equivalent to consuming 4 million kilograms of PET a year, and a large amount of water resources are also used. Thinking of this, Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. believes that environmental protection labels have a very broad prospect, so they set up a team to start researching environmental protection RFID antenna products. This is seven years.
Environmental protection label of Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd., a fist product obtained after seven years of polishing
The environmental label refers to the whole-process environmental protection realized in composite materials and manufacturing processes. At first, Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. thought that as long as it used environmentally friendly materials, changed the etching process to an environmentally friendly process such as silk screen printing, and conducted many experiments, it could realize the production of environmental protection labels.
However, its actual difficulty is far beyond the initial assumption. The improvement of the process needs to meet the needs of mass production, and the ratio of the slurry needs to be constantly tried. It took nearly four years for Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. to mass produce the first label Inlay. But there are still many details that need to be iterated, such as the need to apply for environmental protection material standards after label production, and so on. It took another three years to do this, and it was not until recent years that a relatively mature environmental label antenna was made.
When it comes to environmental protection, many people think that they have to pay extra fees to achieve it, because most environmental protection labels need to use screen printing and other printing technologies instead of traditional etching, which means additional costs. However, it took Yuanzhun two years to continuously iterate its high-frequency and ultra-high-frequency environmental protection Inlay, and now its environmental protection label has reached almost the same price as the etching label. There is no extra charge for environmental protection, and environmental protection is provided for free.
At the same time, in terms of performance, the paper-printed antenna has reached the same level as the traditional etched antenna. Using the signal test of the high-frequency tag to test its environmental protection label, it can also light up 7 LED lights, which is no different from the performance of the traditional label. Not only that, compared with the traditional RFID antenna, the environmental protection antenna of Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. can realize more layers of printing and printing of various substrates.
In the past few years, Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. has accumulated a lot of money and has been iterating its environmental protection antenna products. It is now the sixth generation of products and can already realize the mass production of high-frequency RFID environmental protection labels.
It took 7 years from conception to practice for the environmental label made by patting the head. Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. will not bring semi-finished products to the market for supply, so there has been no sound from 19 to 22.
The core reason is that the labels at that time did not meet the requirements of mass production, and the label cost was still high. , there are still many technical deficiencies. At the same time, Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. hoped that its tag antenna would not only have a bright spot of environmental protection, but also be able to realize the customization of the antenna, so it took several years to continue to polish the product. Up to now, Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. has shipped about 50 million environmentally friendly label antennas. It has participated in many exhibitions abroad and has been recognized by many customers.
Antenna customization is also a highlight of Yuanzhun's products, and its existing equipment can realize customized design of antennas. At present, there is a key pain point for some big brands. Large brand owners need a customized antenna of their own brand, which is an inevitable trend for brand protection. In order to solve this pain point, Yuanzhun's RFID environmental protection label has realized flexible molding.
Compared with the high price of etching and re-printing, the printing antenna does not require the cost of printing, and it is also superior to traditional etching in terms of time and cost. By customizing the label, Yuanzhun Technology Co., Ltd. can print the antenna during the antenna printing stage.
At present, Yuanzhun mainly supplies UHF, HF and dual-frequency RFID Dry Inlays to the market, and can realize the production of Dry Inlays with different recognition distances through process adjustment according to the needs of the scene, and realize scene customization according to the needs.
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Environmental protection is not just a gimmick, but a standard full-production environmental protection
The environmental protection label of Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. is not only a "one-sided" environmental protection, but also a full-process environmental protection for the production process and composite processing consumables. This year, the RFID eco-label antenna of Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. passed the ISO13432 certification, which is one of the most stringent standards for degradable materials in the world.
Under this standard, five certification steps are required:
①Material analysis: analyze the antenna material to see if it contains toxic substances.
②Heavy metal analysis, as long as the label contains copper, it is a heavy metal material and cannot pass this step of certification.
③ Self-decomposition analysis. Under laboratory conditions, the label can achieve natural decomposition under the condition of aerobic composting. Within 6 months, more than 90% of the materials are converted into gases, water and minerals that exist in nature. Under the test of this standard, the residue cannot exceed 10% within 6 months.
The environmental protection label antenna of Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. has 8-9% residue in 5 months, and 4% residue in 9 months, successfully passed the standard.
④ The antenna material degraded by compost can pass through the 22mm screen.
⑤Put the decomposed material into the cultivation soil for testing. Through the proportion of 70% cultivation soil and 30% degraded material, use the mixed soil to plant seeds such as corn and soybeans, and observe the growth status of their fruits. The audit process is very complicated. It took Yuanzhun two years to do ISO certification, and it only hopes to provide products that customers can trust 100%. Now, Yuanzhun's RFID antenna has passed ISO13432 certification, becoming the industry's first environmentally friendly antenna that has passed this certification.
At the same time, CircleZone also sent samples of its antenna for double 85 testing, and exposed the antenna, chip and printing paper substrate to the environment. As a result of the final test, the color of the paper base changed, but the performance of the antenna hardly changed, and there was no significant delay. In other words, although this is a new type of paper antenna, its weather resistance and environmental adaptability are comparable to those of traditional PET antennas.
Environmental protection will be the future trend, Yuanzhun is open and inclusive to face the RFID market
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Taiwan Yuanzhun Co., Ltd. is now cooperating with many packaging manufacturers, and also cooperating with many RFID label manufacturers to apply environmental protection labels to finished products through cooperation. Yuanzhun sincerely hopes that the market for eco-labels will become bigger and bigger, and more players in the industry will be able to participate in the cause of environmental protection and promote the development of eco-labels together with players in the industry.
With the steady advancement of the national policy of carbon neutrality, the concept of environmental protection and sustainable development will gradually penetrate into the hearts of every industry player. Now, many large group companies have begun to try to use more environmentally friendly methods to reduce carbon emissions in their production activities. In the future, Yuanzhun will face the RFID market with an open and cooperative attitude, and welcomes more companies to devote themselves to the R&D and production of environmentally friendly RFID. Only by jointly promoting the concept of environmental protection can we achieve the goal of carbon neutrality in the future. Yuanzhun has spent seven years grinding out a sharp sword in the research and development of RFID environmental protection antenna products. It will officially launch this RFID environmental protection label to the domestic market in September, providing a high-quality product for industry customers with environmental protection concepts. solution.
