Awarepoint's Active RFID technologies and real time location systems (RTLSs) include its real time awareness platform, firmware, RFID tags, sensors, and bridges. Awarepoint's technologies collect raw sensor data and transform that data into high-value positioning information that can be used to add location awareness to a variety of healthcare, manufacturing, security and other applications. Requiring no hard wiring, Awarepoint's "plug and track" network is a fully managed service, including hardware, software, remote monitoring and maintenance, offering the only truly practical, enterprise-wide RTLS technology solution on the market today. The company is headquartered in San Diego, California and serves clients across the United States through a national sales and operations workforce.

bielomatik, a pioneer in RFID technology, is considered the leader in field-proven high production UHF / HF converting and qualification machines. Lowest cost and highest quality per unit are the distinguishing features of bielomatik's solutions for the production of Smart Labels, Tags and Tickets. The building blocks of our line of machines are interchangeable modules, which accommodate changes required by customer demand and evolving technology. bielomatik in partnership with NXP, recently introduced the RF-LoopTag program. RF-LoopTag enables converters to produce their own UHF inlays reliably and economically in order to accelerate the widespread use of RFID.

DELO is a leading manufacturer of industrial adhesives with its head office close to Munich, Germany and more than 45 years of experience in the field of industrial adhesives. The company with more than 200 employees provides tailor-made special adhesives for applications in all lines of business - from electronics to the chip card and automotive supplier industry as well as in glass and plastic design. Accompanied by several patents, DELO is well established with high-tech adhesives and individual solutions on the international market. Being one of the leading suppliers of ACP and NCP adhesives for flip-chip applications, the products are supplied either in the smart card as well as in the smart label sector. In order to provide the best possible solution for the customer, DELO works in very close cooperation with its technology partners like antenna manufacturers, chip producers and equipment suppliers. In a tight relationship with the customer technical requirements are analyzed and extensive conceptions are created, e. g. for the integration of bonding processes in large production lines. Of course detailed introductory tests, continuous monitoring and consequent development guarantee first-class products for the markets needs. DELO's customers are, for example, Bosch, DaimlerChrysler, Festo, Infineon, Philips and Siemens. In the financial year 2006/2007 about 170 employees gained a turnover of nearly Euro 27 million. DELO has a network of worldwide distributors and sales partners.

InkSure Technologies Inc., with its corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and its research and development center in Science Park, Rehovot, Israel, specializes in comprehensive, covert security solutions designed to protect high profile brands and documents of value from counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. The Company's sales and marketing activities target a number of market opportunities, including pharmaceutical, branded products, transportation, financial products and government/institutional, on a global scale.

The Company is currently working on the development of a next generation "chipless" RFID technology that will allow multiple industries to expand identification to a new item level. InkSure's vision is to develop a multi-class chipless RFID code which could be printed and applied for less than one cent per item.

The Company's common stock is listed on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol "INKS".

 

Mühlbauer is a global, independent consultant and manufacturer of turnkey automation solutions for the smart card, smart label, semiconductor backend and vision industries. In addition, the company is active in the areas of data enrollment and verification, precision parts and OEM production. With about 1,800 employees in 29 locations on five continents, Mühlbauer is a leading supplier of production equipment for the smart card industry.

 

Mühlbauer solutions enable to manufacture any type of chip card, including ID cards, contact and contactless cards, dual interface as well as multimedia cards and smart labels for access control, supply chain management, tracking of textiles and applications for the retail industry.

PowerID is the industry leader in the field of Battery-Assisted, Passive (BAP) RFID. The company provides reliable and cost-effective BAP RFID labels for selected applications in industries involving freight, metals, chemicals, paper, people tracking, and cold chain.

 

With corporate headquarters in Israel, PowerID is a privately-held company backed by first-tier investors such as Partech International, Apax Partners, Clal Industries and Investments, Amadeus Capital Partners, Infinity Venture Capital, and Bank of America.

Stork Prints Group is the leading provider of system and application know-how in textile and graphics printing processes as well as 2-dimensional, high accuracy, metal precision products.

Founded in 2000 as an MIT start-up company, TagSense is a provider of RFID hardware for handheld systems, printers, asset management, access control, and smart shelves. With a portfolio of both passive RFID and high-performance active RFID solutions, TagSense designs and develops custom RFID hardware and sensors for a variety of clients.

TagSense core competency includes antenna design, RF circuit design, and passive sensors. In 2006, TagSense created the world's smallest UHF EPC reader module, the Nano-UHF.

 

In 2007, TagSense released its Active RFID platform, the ZR-HUB, which is the first industry software platform to support both active RFID and passive RFID with the same software API. The TagSense active RFID tag portfolio includes the ZT-10, ZT-50, and ZT-100 active tags which support multiple sensor inputs and data logger functionality based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard operating at 2.4 GHz.

 

The TagSense hardware platform is available to resellers, OEM, and private label companies.

TAGSYS is the global leader in item-level RFID infrastructure. TAGSYS provides RFID systems and tags for end-to-end item-level tracking that automates labor-intensive processes, authenticates and safeguards goods, and enables real-time inventory and asset visibility. With a proven track record of delivering Reliable, Accurate and Secure (R.A.S.) RFID systems and tags, TAGSYS has deployed over 100 million tags and 60,000 reader systems to over 500 customers in more than 40 countries. TAGSYS' RFID solutions are currently being deployed in a range of highly specialized vertical markets that include pharmaceutical, fashion apparel, libraries, and textile rental. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with offices and R&D Centers in France, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania and in Hong Kong. More information on TAGSYS can be found on their website.

Cymbet Corporation—a green technology company—is a leader in thin-film, solid-state storage devices and energy harvesting technology. The company is the first to market a component-class energy solution that designers can use to realize new embedded systems capabilities. Cymbet's EnerChip thin-film devices enable innovative energy storage applications for integrated circuits and new products for process control, medical, sensor, RFID, communications, consumer and portable electronic devices.

Datacon, the world's leading supplier of advanced-packaging equipment, is first source for high capability chip assembly equipment for RFID inlay manufacturing. With a small die capability down to 0.3 mm flip chip and a placement accuracy of 15µm@3 sigma the big number of installed Datacon RFID chip assembly lines are already capable to handle smallest chip sizes which will become standard in the next couple of years. As a pioneer who introduced high speed dot dispensing technology up to 10,000 dots per hour for chip-on-web attach Datacon has set the challenging benchmark for the best in class total cost of ownership. Based on the TTT-program ("Triple-T") Datacon offers total solutions for RFID inlay/tag manufacturing.

Enfucell, Ltd is a dynamic, innovative company offering state of the art customer solutions for disposable low voltage (1,5 - 3.0 V) power needs.

 

Enfucell's thin, flexible and environmentally friendly Softbattery™ represents the next generation of battery technology, offering a completely new level of performance and thinness. The manufacturing process is based on traditional paper printing and lamination technology, making it cost competitive, using freely available industrial raw materials thus offering the company a key competitive advantage.

 

The Softbattery™ can be used in a wide range of new applications such as semi-active RFID, functional printing, senor based tags and transdermal drug delivery patches.

For 25 years, Hanita Coatings has specialized in the coating, metallizing and laminating of PET films for applications ranging from label face stock to solar control films. Hanita's newly created Flexible Electronics Division has established itself as the one of the leading providers of copper RFID tag antennas to transponder manufacturers worldwide, delivering low-cost, high-performance antennas manufactured by a proprietary semi-additive process.

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High performance splicing, rewinding and tension control systems. Martin Automatic Inc is a U.S. based company with locations in Europe and the Pacific Rim. An engineering-intensive company with nearly 8,000 installations in more than 50 countries, Martin Automatic is best known for its extensive line of automatic splicing unwinds, automatic transfer rewinds and tension control systems based on its patented inertia compensation technology. For more than 40 years, Martin has provided innovative solutions for the most demanding web handling challenges.

Meco Equipment Engineers B.V. (member of the BESI group) is a leading equipment supplier of plating systems for the semiconductor, connector and film & foil industry.

 

Meco's new development, the Flex Antenna Plating system (Meco FAP) is the solution for tomorrow's low cost antenna production where high volume, product flexibility and process robustness become key!

 

Over the years, the Meco systems have established an international reputation for high performance, outstanding reliability, top quality and unbeatable economy.

ODIN technologies is the leader in the physics of RFID solution design, deployment, research and optimization software. RFID is all we do. Global corporations on five continents leverage ODIN technologies' expert engineers and patented RFID optimization tools to achieve accuracy, speed and visibility for their RFID deployments. In addition to client deployment services, ODIN technologies is also the publisher of the RFID Benchmark Series™, the industry's first and most referenced head to head performance analysis of RFID equipment. ODIN's RFID optimization software suite EasyRFID™ has been successfully used in dozens of sites to ensure accurate RFID implementations. ODIN's founder, Patrick J. Sweeney II, is also the author of RFID for Dummies published by John Wiley & Sons and Wiley's CompTIA RFID+ study guide. ODIN serves clients from offices in Dulles, Virginia, USA, Tokyo, Japan and Budapest, Hungary.

Omnitrol Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of converged service-oriented application network solutions for the emerging wireless, RFID and sensor automation market. The company's award-winning OMNITROL appliance and Edge Application and Services Engine (EASE™) software have pioneered the market for "Always On" real-time web-based operational visibility and automation solutions. The OMNITROL's unique edge-centric solution architecture offers the industry's most flexible and reliable means to deploy scalable application intelligent networks at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. Omnitrol Networks is a privately held company with corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. Additional information about Omnitrol Networks' products and services are available at www.omnitrol.com.

PolyIC produces printed electronics in a high-speed printing process. Printed electronics means that in a printing process electrical conducting and semi conducting plastics, so called polymers, are applied in several layers on a polyester film. The printing process is conducted in an exactly defined design so that electronic devices can be created. These devices are integrated, for example, into a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag. PolyIC's product line for RFID is called PolyID. Printed electronics makes low-cost RFID tags possible that can be used for mass applications. Furthermore, this new technology is also used in displays and complex systems, called smart objects. PolyIC sells smart objects under the name of PolyLogo.

 

PolyIC is a joint venture between Siemens AG and Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG and is located in Fuerth, Germany. PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2003.

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Soligie is the leading company to utilize high speed manufacturing to produce printed electronics with a variety of conductive, resistive and proprietary materials on flexible substrates such as PET, paper and foil. The Company is on the cutting edge of a new industry that will enable production of electronic components using high speed, fully additive roll-to-roll processes. Soligie offers a full range of services from concept design, circuit design, design for manufacturability and final volume production, and currently serves the medical device, smart packaging, RFID and flexible interconnect markets. Through the combined use of emergent materials and proprietary manufacturing processes, electronics components such as memory, sensors, displays and batteries will soon be integrated into applications on thin flexible substrates. Soligie is also investing in the development of processes for printed thin-film transistors that can be used in products such as smart labels, medical patches and chipless RFID tags.

Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, is a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales over $3 billion and 11,000 employees, Sun Chemical operates in 110 countries worldwide. Leveraging 50 years of experience as a supplier to the printed circuits industry, Sun Chemical has recently commercialized a range of new products for membrane switch, RFID and photovoltaics markets. Through an ongoing commitment to developing innovative products that provide value to our customers, Sun Chemical is investing in facilities and technologies targeted at the evolving printed electronics market.

Teslin® sheet, produced by PPG Industries, is a silica-filled porous substrate used in global e-passport inlays, contactless SMART cards, RFID cards and labels, security and identification documents, healthcare cards, and specialty graphic printing. Teslin sheet prints as easily as paper, but provides the durability of plastic - exhibiting a broad thermal flexibility range, and resisting tearing, abrasion, and chemical attack. It provides tamper-resistant / tamper-evident adhesive bonds, electrostatic dissipation, prolonged contactless IC card service life, digital print capability, and consistent high-quality print image. In high-security applications, customer-specific covert and forensic security features can be incorporated into the Teslin sheet during production making them less susceptible to counterfeiting or alteration.