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IP Texarkana Mill Project

Thursday, August 14, 2003

RFID Journal - IP Unveils RFID Enabled Warehouse

“Aug. 14, 2003 - A lot of companies are talking about putting RFID in their warehouse. International Paper has done it. IP, the world’s largest paper and forest products company, announced today that it has gone live with a fully IP’s Texarkana paper mill automated RFID Warehouse Tracking System (WTS), which manages inventory at its Texarkana mill and warehouse.”

I have a special place in my heart for this project, as I was on location during its development in February of this year. [end] 

B.O.S. Better Online Solutions announced that it has completed a RFID traceability project in Spain at Barcelonesa de Metales, S.A. (BAMESA) corporation.

BAMESA is a steel service center organization for automotive, home appliances and metal engineering industries, among others, with eight locations in five different countries.

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Global teleco vendor Comarch announced that it will begin offering NFC technology in its portfolio of products and services, starting with an NFC-enabled art exhibit in the National Museum in Krakow, Poland.

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Mobile operator 3UK has asked the European Commission to investigate “Project Oscar,” a U.K. mobile payments joint venture from Everything Everywhere, O2 and Vodafone, according to PCWorld.

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Three University of California, Riverside scholars have received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to launch a program that will use facial recognition software to identify unknown subjects in portrait art.

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The Department of Transportation and Communications (Philippines) announced a proposed project to install a contactless ticketing system for Metro Rail Transit (MRT), according to Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation.

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The German Banking Industry Committee has partnered with Infineon Technologies to launch one of Europe’s biggest contactless payment trials in the metropolitan area of Hanover, Braunschweig and Wolfsburg.

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