🔊 INSIGHTS FROM THE RAIN RFID EVENT IN FLORENCE!
The future of industrial traceability is taking shape under the RFID and Digital Product Passports (DPP), and Europe is preparing to make them mandatory in several sectors, from textiles to tyres.
At the Rain RFID Conference, major players like Decathlon and companies in the mattress industry demonstrated how RFID technology is already transforming product lifecycle management. With RFID, products can be tracked not just during their active use, but right up until the end of their life and into recycling. It’s this end-to-end tracking that holds the key to better waste management and optimized recycling processes.
So, what exactly is the Digital Product Passport?
The DPP is essentially a digital ID for every product. It’s linked via an RFID tag and contains crucial details about the product. For industries like tyre recycling, this means gaining unparalleled insights into each tyre’s journey—from production to disposal—and ensuring they’re recycled in the most efficient, environmentally-friendly way.
RFID IN THE TYRE INDUSTRY 🛞
Today, in France, for the tyre industry, with organizations like Aliapur, we have to justify the fate of tyres according to the volumes in our trailers. But with the DPP, we'll soon have to justify each tire individually, from manufacturing to recycling. This represents a major change in the way we manage end-of-life products.
Today, GDSO (Global data service for tyres and automotive components), a consortium of major manufacturers, is working on the integration of these digital passports, and REGOM is playing a key role through the CIRPASS-2 - Digital Product Passport project, where we are developing demonstrators capable of reading RFID tags and accessing tyre DPPs. The DPP obligation that will be introduced in the coming years will transform the industry, imposing new standards of transparency and traceability on every player in the sector.
REGOM IS READY FOR THE TRANSITION
RFID antennas at TC Environnement
REGOM is already prepared for this transition! With our innovative system for separating and aligning tyres before they are processed in our machines, we simplify and optimize the process. Unlike other industries, which may encounter difficulties with serial RFID reading and product alignment, our solution is perfectly designed to integrate DPP smoothly and efficiently.
This seamless integration of DPP will enhance our ability to collect and use key data on every tyre. Indeed, the more tyre data we can access, the better we can sort and recycle them. Sorting is only one step, but an essential one for recycling. The DPP will complement our current systems, providing valuable additional information, particularly for new recycling technologies such as pyrolysis.
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