Unique IDs help carpet maker cut mistakes, paperwork and payroll
Warren Buffett is reputed to be one of the smartest investors in the United States. So maybe it’s no surprise that Shaw Industries, America’s leading carpet manufacturer and a subsidiary of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is the first company in its industry to invest in RFID technology.
The company started testing RFID housings in the fourth quarter of 2004, according to David Milligan, a systems engineer at Dalton, Ga.-based Shaw. The housings—a heavy-duty composite shell protecting an RFID inlay—are manufactured by a small company called EmbedTech Industries of Raymond, Maine, which says it’s the only company in the United States encapsulating RFID inlays in three-dimensional plastic housings via an injection molding machine.
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