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Alien Technology® Announces Milestone of 50 Million EPC Class 1 RFID Tags Shipped
April 11, 2005, Morgan Hill, CA -- Alien Technology today announced that the company has now shipped 50 million EPC Class 1 RFID tags. The Alien® RFID tags, which are manufactured using Alien's patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA®) technology, are widely deployed in a large percentage of Wal-Mart and DoD-related RFID implementations. Alien continues to lead the market in delivering reliable, high volume, low cost EPC tags.
"Alien is pleased to pass this milestone of 50 million tags delivered in response to the rapid pace of demand for tags in the RFID market over the last 12 months," said Keith McDonald, Sr.V.P. Sales & Marketing, Alien Technology. "We are continuing to build a strong pipeline of tag supply to meet escalating customer demand."
Alien delivers RFID tags to the market leading label converter partners including; The Kennedy Group, Paxar, NCR, Moore Wallace, Plitek, MPI, and CCL. As the industry leader in providing EPC compliant RFID tags and readers, Alien's extensive "Qualification Program" establishes the highest levels of confidence for performance and reliability of labels containing Alien tags.
About Alien Technology
Alien Technology provides UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products and services to customers in retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, defense, transportation and logistics, pharmaceuticals and other industries. Organizations use Alien's RFID products and services to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and security of their supply chains, logistics and asset tracking operations. Alien's products include RFID tags, RFID readers and related training and professional services. Alien's patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) technology and related proprietary manufacturing processes are designed to enable the manufacture of high volume, low cost RFID tags.
Alien was founded in 1994. The company's facilities include: its corporate headquarters in Morgan Hill, CA; an RFID tag manufacturing facility in Fargo, ND; the Alien RFID Solutions Center, in the Dayton, Ohio area, and sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia. Alien is a member of EPCglobal. More information about Alien is available at www.alientechnology.com.
Alien, Alien Technology, the Alien logo, Squiggle and FSA, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Alien Technology Corporation in the United States and other countries. Copyright 2007 Alien Technology Corporation. All rights reserved.
