CCL Label in partnership for smart solutions

CCL Label, one of the largest label printing company in North America, has joined the Team Tag-it Program, a partnership of industry-leading companies dedicated to the development and adoption of RFID high-frequency (HF) and ultra-high frequency (UHF) smart label solutions.

CCL Label designs and packages label solutions at its 26 manufacturing facilities for a variety of industries including consumer packaged goods and pharmaceutical. The company holds 100 patents on special construction labels. CCL Label converts RFID inlays to pressure sensitive labels, PVC cards, disposable paper tickets and disposable wristbands.

The company will leverage its TI Team Tag-it partnership to expand RFID sales for key applications including product authentication, inventory management, anti-counterfeiting, diversion control and security. An important RFID growth area for CCL Label is pharmaceutical, already the firm’s largest market.

One of CCL Label’s largest RFID implementations was for the 75th Annual Academy awards (otherwise known as ‘the Oscars’) in March 2003. The company manufactured 11,000 RFID badges and also embedded them with additional security credentialing technology. CCL Label will open a second manufacturing facility for RFID products in January 2004, in Hightstown, New Jersey.