Identiv opens Thailand manufacturing facility

Identiv has completed its manufacturing transition from Singapore to its Bangkok, Thailand facility, positioning the company as a leader in multicomponent manufacturing (MCM) for advanced RFID and BLE IoT applications.

The production transition to Thailand represents a significant achievement for the Perform pillar of Identiv's Perform, Accelerate, Transform (P-A-T) strategy, establishing a highly efficient manufacturing operation in a location known for its strong workforce and competitive cost structure.

'The completion of our Thailand production transition is a foundational milestone for Identiv as a pure-play IoT company, marking the end of a successful two-year process and delivering on a key strategic objective for operational excellence,' stated Kirsten Newquist, CEO at Identiv. 'By providing a state-of-the-art, high-quality and cost-efficient base, the Thailand facility is now the engine of our competitive advantage, engineered for the future of IoT and sustained, profitable growth.'

As IoT applications expand from inventory management and asset tracking to complex, high-value applications such as real-time location tracking, condition monitoring and advanced security, simple, single-component inlays are evolving into more sophisticated, multi-component designs. MCM is a production method for this new era of IoT manufacturing, enabling the industrial-scale integration of various components, including chips, sensors and batteries, into advanced RFID and BLE-enabled tags.

'Multicomponent manufacturing is not merely an assembly method; it is the orchestration of interdependent disciplines, including product design, process engineering, material science and testing,' explained Dr Manfred Mueller, chief strategy officer at Identiv. 'The decade of experience our teams have in refining these parameters across thousands of production runs is a key competitive advantage for Identiv. This expertise is what allows us to rapidly prototype and commercialize complex systems for critical high-value applications, cementing our role as the infrastructure layer shaping IoT's future.'

MCM is expected to play a key role in expanding Identiv's specialized IoT offerings, including advanced BLE capabilities for healthcare and logistics applications.