Syngenta orders 10,000 new RFID tags for Grangemouth
Syngenta – one of the world’s largest producer of agricultural chemicals – has ordered a new consignment of RFID tags which are used to track ingredients at its Grangemouth plant and which have helped it to boost production. The company has ordered 10,000 new tags from its supplier CoreRFID to replace the originals, which have been in regular use since the RFID tracking system was introduced in 2014. Syngenta’s Grangemouth site employs over 350 staff and produces the ‘active ingredients’ used in its fertilisers and crop protection products. The ingredients are then put into bulk containers or ‘bags’ and either shipped to production plants overseas or moved to another plant on site and used to make the finished products. The use of RFID has allowed Syngenta to track the bags as they are moved around the site, and to gain better control over the entire production process. Every bag is fitted with a tag which can be scanned by fixed readers or by staff with hand-h...