Impinj Adds Chinese RFID technology Firm to VAR Network

Submitted by nestorb on Wed, 2007-05-30 23:52.

Chinese RFID technology provider Yeon Technologies has joined RFID chip and reader provider Impinj's value-added reseller program and will resell the latter's Speedway UHF Gen 2 RFID reader in Taiwan. Impinj hopes its relationship with Yeon Technologies will support the growth of Chinese RFID product manufacturers and distributors, while helping ramp up RFID end-user adoption in Taiwan. Production quantities of the Speedway reader are available today from Yeon Technologies and Impinj's other VAR and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners worldwide. The reader is certified to operate under Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) regulations. The reader also carries both EPCglobal's Gen 2 compliance and interoperability certification marks. Yeon Technologies was founded in the fall of 2006 by YFY Group, a conglomerate of Chinese businesses that includes packaging material manufacturer Yuen Foong Yu Paper. The company is developing a means for RFID-enabling corrugate material used for product packaging by embedding EPC Gen 2 inlays into it (see RFID-Enabled Boxes Inch Closer to Production).