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Exciting News: TrustTag Now Has a Factory in Vietnam

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Bringing You Better Service and Zero Tariffs!


Dear Valued customers

We’re thrilled to announce that TrustTag has successfully relocated its factory to Vietnam! This strategic move allows us to continue providing you with the highest quality products and services, while offering several exciting benefits:

  • Zero Tariffs: Thanks to Vietnam’s favorable trade agreements, you can now purchase TrustTag products without any import duties or tariffs. This translates to significant cost savings for you, our valued customers.
  • Streamlined Production: Our new, state-of-the-art Vietnamese facility boasts optimized production processes and advanced technology. This means faster turnaround times, increased efficiency, and even better product quality.
  • Unwavering Commitment: Our dedication to your satisfaction remains our top priority. The Vietnam relocation allows us to maintain our rigorous quality control standards and exceptional customer service, ensuring you receive the best possible experience.

We understand that change can be uncertain, but we assure you that this move is solely designed to enhance your TrustTag experience. We’re confident that the benefits of zero tariffs, faster production, and continued high quality will exceed your expectations.

As always, we’re grateful for your continued support and partnership. We look forward to serving you even better in the future.

Sincerely,

The TrustTag Team

Great Benefits of EAS and RFID Combination

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TrustTag's Security tags with RFID Technology

Today TrustTag presents our dual-frequency tags with a great pleasure! It is based on suggestions and comments that several customers have requested. So we believe our customer will benefit from this combination technology a lot. RFID, which stands for radio frequency identification, it has been used in a variety of applications. When it comes to retail and inventory management, this technology has become an unstoppable force.

A dual-purpose tag can offer its retail customers a means of leveraging RFID tools for in-store inventory visibility while continuing to use the EAS tags as a theft deterrent—without having to apply two separate tags to their products.

TrustTag's RETAIL SECURITY TAGS WITH RFID

Here’s how dual technology can help improve your management:

  • Better inventory control:

With RFID technology, thousands of tags can be scanned in seconds reducing the operational time to a great extent. It does not have any line-of-sight limitations. RFID systems can automatically pick up tag IDs from a distance and, in some cases, through obstacles between the tag and the reader. This makes the process fast and reliable.

  • Cost-saving

Although RFID technology is still typically expensive to set up and use, RFID systems bring their own cost benefits, such as reduced labor costs and improved efficiency. It provides better control and visibility at each step of the supply chain. For example, clothing industries maintain large stocks which are difficult to manage manually. RFID technology allows them to improve their efficiency, reduce time consumption and minimize human errors.

  • Improve shopping experience

RFID can also help reduce wait times at the checkout as well, while traditional barcodes require line of sight for scanning, and each item has to be scanned individually, an entire shopping cart can be scanned all at once, instantly, with no items being removed from the basket. This is the time-saving advantage of RFID, where entire areas can be scanned in seconds.

  • Durable and reusable

The traditional RFID hangtag and labels can get tampered and damaged due to wear and tear. But, RFID tags are highly durable and long lasting. They do not get damaged in harsh environments, heat, dirt, and mud.

  • Data Security

The RFID tags have a dedicated chip with a unique number that cannot be copied. It also reduces any chances of missed items when used to collect data on large numbers of items at once thereby minimizing chances of a human error. Moreover, as compared to traditional tags and barcodes. RFID tags can store more data in the non-volatile memory.

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Specifications of ET-L084

TrustTag's New RFID Security Tags

EAS Frequency:58KHz
RFID Frequency:860-960 MHz
Chip Type: M4QT/H4/MR6
Interface Protocol: EPC Class 1 Gen2 ISO 18000-6c

Dimension: 79.52mm*32.43mm*20.64mm
Color: Gray/White or customized
Lock: Stardard/Super
RFID Read Range:3-5m
Packing:500pcs/ctn, G.W:6.00kgs/ctn, 0.037cbm

Choosing Source Tagging For Increased Retail Security

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TrustTag provides source tagging solutions for retail loss prevention demands

By Simon Shi

Having a secure retail store is at the forefront of every merchant’s mind. And with theft being a constant threat to retail security, more stores are looking to source tagging as both an effective and painless way to bolster loss-prevention methods.

Not every retailer using these methods are implementing source tagging effectively; some are pointed in the entirely wrong direction. Let’s take a look at an overview of source tagging and how to make the best use of it for your retail store.

What is Source Tagging?
Source tagging (a type of Electronic Article Surveillance, or EAS), is when a small electronic device is embedded into packaging or is sewn unobtrusively onto the product itself. The tiny detectors are placed on products at or near the source (the supplier or manufacturer) rather than at the retailer.

The retailer’s vendors are authorized to obtain the security tags and tag the items themselves before shipment, cutting down expensive labor costs for employee time spent tagging items in the store. Source tags come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but are always easy to handle and are incredibly effective for loss-prevention.

Why Retail Theft is a Problem
More companies are choosing to use source tagging because of the overwhelming statistics of shoplifting. In taking the United States into account, there are over 550,000 incidents of shoplifting per day, and a startling 13 billion dollars’ worth of goods stolen every single year – equating to 35 million dollars every day! Even 75 percent of employees have been found to engage in shoplifting.

Retail thieves are only caught 1 in 48 times, and they often wear large coats or use baby strollers, umbrellas, or large shopping bags to drop items into. Source tagging aids in mitigating the substantial losses incurred by retail losses.

Source Tagging Benefits
Source tagging is a reliable method for theft detection for products of any size or value. A Visible Source Tag (VST) extends high security and deterrence factors, and a sewn-in label can offer discreet EAS protection. Either option is easily deactivated or removed at the retail POS and chips away at valuable employee time often bogged down by tagging items. Additionally, source tagging decreases shrinkage, helps to increase in-stock rates, and can be a driving force in increasing sales. But above all, source tagging is one of the most effective ways to increase loss prevention.

How To Implement Source Tagging
The source tagging supplier you choose should be a professional entity and should be located close to a retailer’s manufacturing vendors. Many retailers in the United States choose their packing companies to aid with source tagging, which doesn’t end up working to the retailer’s advantage as manufacturers don’t provide the quality and professionalism that professional source tagging companies can offer. Source tagging companies communicate directly with vendors to ensure a retailer’s security needs are met. Make sure to choose trusted source tagging companies with dependable reputations – your products are your business, and your business is your livelihood!

TrustTag is a Chinese source tagging company that provides a myriad of source tagging and other precision-engineered security services for any manufacturers located in Asia. Contact us for any questions about how we can help your retail store mitigate loss prevention.


Read below link to understand more about source tagging
Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) Source Tagging: 20+ Years of Innovation

Will RFID Improve The Loss Prevention Function of Chinese Retail

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Loss Prevention Committee of China General Chamber of Commerce announced that the Chinese retail lost value has reached 181 billion in 2016, commercial loss rate is 0.71% and it has been going up gradually in these recent 5 years. Internal and external theft is the main reason for the commercial loss. In the analysis report that the internal theft value is higher than the external theft. Therefore to control the internal theft is the main task in commercial loss prevention. Traditional loss prevention solution is not able to save retail loss prevention, that means loss prevention technology shall be upgraded.

Many big retailers domestic and international have led in modernized anti-theft solutions including EAS, CCTV, POS/EM and so on. EAS security system is ususally installed at the conspicuous place of the shopping mall or supermarket, and it can detect the active EAS security tags attached on the commodities items and trigger warning light and sound.

To use EAS anti-theft solution has powerful deterrent force on reducing external theft during retail stores opening. But the current EAS anti-theft security system has the defecs of low detection rate, faulse alarm, weak anti-interference, being shielded by metal, narrow protection range, non-recyclable EAS soft label and so on, which is already not able to meet the needs of existing anti-theft requirements.

CCTV acts mostly as a deterrent for external and internal theft and records the entire process of the event.  While its shortcoming is that closed-circuit monitoring systems are usually installed in hidden locations to remotely monitor specific areas, and the camera’s viewing angles has not covered areas, so it is difficult to play a role at densely populated shopping mall. The CCTV system of the shopping mall needs to have a 24-hour special person for operating, generally speaking, it is difficult for someone in the actual operation to continuously monitor the image for a long time, so it cannot guarantee detection and suppression on the store theft intime.

The see from the above that the traditional retail loss prevention solution is not able to meet the current needs of the market. While in this time, RFID has brought new changes.

RFID has brough new changes to retail loss prevention.

  1. Quick cycle counting to reduce human losses.

After adopting RFID technology on the merchandise, managers can quickly cycle through the inventory and track the goods in real time. The staff only needs to check the inventory in the warehouse and sales area, monitor the real-time inventory, compare the differences and discover the changes of the goods during the operation, and clearly understand the loss of goods. In addition, the quickly counting feature of RFID can reduce the number of staff involved and reduce the theft rate.

Of course, the RFID technology comparing to EAS system, it still has the problem of weak protection of goods in the vicinity of the store entrance. At this stage, an RFID technology based EAS system, plus an RFID chip which is that a tag and two technologies can be for commodity protection and inventory management.

  1. Realize traceability of goods and reduce natural loss.

Low-temperature fresh food is prone to deterioration, using active temperature shelf label can sense the temperature and change real-time accurate price. With the handheld device, base station and software, it can display the freezer temperature in real time. When the temperature is high or low, the system will remind the staff to adjust the temperature in time through the background management system promptly to avoid the loss of food treatment caused by the power failure of the refrigerator.

In addition, the RFID shelf label can also display the existing inventory of the product in real time. Each time the item is sold, the system transmits the updated data to the sensing layer through the sensor. When the staff receives insufficient inventory, the product can be replenished in time.

  1. Automatic cashier to reduce cash loss.

The radio frequency tag based automatic cash register can instantly read the product information and complete the settlement on the helpf of radio frequency tag, without taking out the goods from the shopping basket and scanning the barcode one by one. The automatic cash register method reduces the cash loss caused during checking at the counter.

The functions of RFID achieving in the retail industry are not only preventing loss, but also improving the efficiency of the supply chain, the service quality of the store and so on. At present, the technology premium brought by RFID to the retail industry has begun to appear, and many retail companies have begun to deploy RFID systems.

The ‘S’ and ‘W’ of hot-melt adhesive coating and ultrasonic cutting on Eas Pocket Label Tag

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Eas pocket label tag is known as one of the security products to be used on garment clothing for retail stores anti-theft. The specialty of such kind of security label tag that different from normal hard tag is that it is more suitable for source tagging that to be tagging at source of manufacturing, and most importantly, cost-effective.

The security label tag is with Eas alarming soft label coated inside with fabric pocket, to be sewn on clothes. And how to make the alarming sensor soft label being coated with the fabric pocket? The normal and traditional production technics of the Eas pocket label tag is hot-melt adhesive coating on the fabric with the sensor alarming soft label.

Hot-melt adhesive glue is a kind of glue that does not have harm on the environment, and the glue is solid state in ordinary temperature, like massive, layer, strip or granular, which makes it convenient for easy package, storage, transport and usage. Moreover, when the glue is being hot-melt to coating on fabric, it can fastly stick and coat when the glue is cooling and curing. This makes the hot-melt adhesive glue quite fit for auto production line with high manufacturing efficiency. Because of these advantages of the hot-melt glue, therefore it’s widely and mostly used for Eas security pocket label tag’s manufacturing.

While at the same time, using hot-melt adhesive for security pocket label tag coating also has its own defects.

  1. Not great heat resistance and not strong enough adhesiveness; Have high requirement on hot-melting and coating equipment.
  2. Some of the hot-melt adhesive glue will easily turn to yellow when temperature is over 30℃, and it will be yellowing the fabric as well if in this case.
  3. The fabric can be wrinkle during hot-melt adhesive coating, thus the high requirement on coating equipment.
  4. The hot-melt adhesive coating fabric can be too stiff for sewing machine needle to pass through and has certain damage on sewing needle.
  5. Coating cost is a bit too high to manufacture with hot-melt adhesive glue.
  6. The fabric material will easily stick on the cutter because of the glue.

Due to the above listed defects of using hot-melt adhesive glue for security pocket tag coating, security pocket tag manufactures can receive oftenly claims from garment factories for not easy for sewing needle to pass through the pocket tag or from garment retailers that the yellowing on the fabric making their new clothes with stains and so on.

Based on the above facts and situation, security tag supplier has found out another better solution to solve the problems——Ultrasonic cutting technics.

Ultrasonic cutting is totally different from traditional cutting. Ultrasonic cutting is to use the power of ultrasonic transducer to heat and melt the cutting fabric material so fast as for cutting off. So ultrasonic cutting does not need sharp cutter edge or very strong pressure, and will not break or damage the cutting fabric edge. In this case the cutting sealing edge on the fabric will not have rough selvage, creases, silk running or laddering and so on.

Another big advantage of ultrasonic cutting is that, it fuses the fabric cutting part and automatically seals the cutting edge quite well when cutting on the fabric, avoiding fabric sealing edge turning loose. What’s more, the fabric material will not stick on the cutter even after ultrasonic fusing, which in some way to improve the cutting efficiency. And clothing factories do not need to worry about the damage on sewing machines needle when sew the label tag on.

The manufacturing efficiency is much higher with ultrasonic cutting technics comparing to the hot-melt adhesive coating so it’s now widely used by security tag manufactures. Ultrasonic cutting manufacturing can increase the production speed, expand production capacity and most importantly, highly reduce cost.

 

Meet TrustTag at ISC WEST 2018 in Las Vegas

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Dear Customer,

As ISC WEST (The International Security Conference & Exposition) is taking place soon in Las Vegas, NV, USA. We hereby sincerely invite you to visit our booth#21135 at the SANDS EXPO CENTER on April 11-13, 2018.

Since the company’s founding in 2004, TrustTag has focused on solving the problem of retail theft with various solutions while anticipating the needs of retailers. Leading retailers worldwide have been using TrustTag’s innovative and high quality EAS&RFID retail security products to help decrease shrinkage, enhance inventory management, and improve efficiency as well as customers experience. What’s more, by taking advantage of TrustTag’s Source Tagging solution, retailers will be able to protect and keep track of their merchandise throughout the supply chain.

Interested in attending the show and learn more about our solutions? Please click here to register for a FREE Expo Pass offered by TrustTag today. We look forward to meeting you at the show to communicate face to face soon!

Sincerely,

Simon Shi(President)

TrustTag

 

First simple look at Source Tagging

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Comparing to traditional tagging and recirculation of reusable hard tags, today we are more attracted by source tagging solution in Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS), which emerged like 20 years ago. Source tagging solution is the process of embedding security label into any packaging or into the merchant itself at the source of manufacturing to protect the item from shoplifting at retail places.

Source tagging now is widely used in apparel & fashion accessories, electronics, food & beverage, health & beauty for the most part, and some other categories. And it will continue to expand and increase focus in the near future for loss prevention.

Now you still have no idea about how source tagging works in loss prevention? No worry, let us explain more.

Source Tagging is the process of dispatching the EAS security tags or labels from tags manufacturer to the point of merchandise manufacturer, for example, garments, cosmetics, electronics, food, beverages and so on. The source tag will be embedded into the item itself during manufacturing at the sourcing place. Completed merchandise with source tag is shipped and dispatched at the stores and being placed on sales floor. Throughout all this process, retailers can reduce in-store labor costs incurred from applying security labels or hard tags inside the store and get complete reliability of the merchandise tagging.

To catch up with the development, TrustTag has devoted itself to source tagging solution for retail loss prenvetion to help retailers increase sales, solve shrink issues, and optimize store labor.

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ET-E008 Battery Replaceable Alarming Tag

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If you have been using any alarming tags, you may find it unsatisfactory to your usage. First of all, main problem of alarming tags in the market currently is that the battery dies quickly and you will have to abandon them afterwards as you can’t replace the battery.

The other problem that alarming tag users complain a lot is that the lanyards are not secured enough for high end products, not to mention about deterring shoplifters.

To solve these problems, we have done a lot of research and developed a new alarming tag to meet customers’ need. So here comes TrustTag’s ET-E008 Battery Replaceable Alarming Cable Lock, which is also more secured and deterrent with heavy duty coated steel lanyard.

This is a great improvement on the series of Alarming Tags , which always come with battery that doesn’t last long enough. Even most manufacturers claim that the battery life can last for 3 years, but wait until the end user are using it, the battery life would run out much quicker than they expected.

Moreover, TrustTag’s new alarming tag is more environment-friendly as they are battery replaceable and reusable with strong housing.

So how to replace the battery of TrustTag’s ET-E008? It is simple and convenient just using a small stick like screw driver. You can replace the battery in only 15 seconds! Check out the 15 seconds video on Youtube . You may think the thieves can then take out the battery and disalarm the alarming tag. The truth is, you can’t reach out to the battery unless the tag is detached! This is another advantage of our alarming tag that we have taken into account during designing.

If you are interested in learning more of our ET-E008 Alarming tag, or more new designs from TrustTag, please visit our website at www.trusttag.com.

The innovated combination of traditional EAS tag and RFID with laser printing

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Traditional EAS tags are widely used in retail loss prevention/anti-theft for many years, with the unique function to act as protection guard for most of the hypermarket, supermarket, textile stores, outlet and so on. Due to the progress of the time and social requirements, RFID as a new technology is becoming more and more popular. RFID is well known in logistics, manamgement of inventory, retails, foods, parking and so on. Its application range is so big and it’s near us everywhere.

 And since RFID can be used in retails management, most of the stores are using EAS security tags and RFID tags together for anti-theft and product management. Under this situation, some of the stores put forward to an idea: how about combine these two tags together? Not only can simplify the non-commercial products, but also can save cost! Why not?!

 And then another question is that, what if we want to have barcode consistent with RFID data? Or what if we want to have permanently print a barcode on tags for scanning?

 So here comes the EAS and RFID combination tag with laser printing!

 TrustTag as a professional manufacturer in EAS field, now positively comform to the requirements of the time and needs of our customers by devoting into the production of EAS and RFID combination tags. Our RFID laser printing machine combines the function of reading, writing RFID data, laser printing, high speed auto-testing and auto-eliminating defective tags with very fast speed and good accuracy.

 The laser printing we can do, for example, to print barcode on the tag. The data of the barcode is consistent with the data in RFID inlays. Or if you want to print like company logo or any other images, it’s also ok too!

 Customers don’t need to worry about putting two seperate tags on commodities and pay extra cost for manual printing, With this solution, they can increase retail sales while reducing cost. With only one tag they can solve all the problems!

 

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