RAIN Alliance

You know your event is big when you start getting press coverage....we were thrilled to see EE Journal is spotlighting RAIN in Action Madrid! 🎉 Their latest article covers this year's theme — "From Infrastructure to Impact" — and gives a taste of what's in store when industry leaders, innovators, and end users come together in Madrid, Spain from 29 September – 1 October. Think Digital Product Passport compliance, RAIN-enabled smartphones, healthcare innovation, and more — all explored through hands-on demos, real-world case studies, and workshops. It's shaping up to be our best event yet. 📖 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gt72UGVV 🎟️ Register now: https://lnkd.in/gHX79sWn

Great to see RAIN Alliance member Shenzhen Vanch Intelligent Technology Co.,ltd showcasing their industrial-grade RAIN RFID readers and smart logistics solutions at the China International Logistics Equipment and Technology Exhibition last month. Their industrial-grade RAIN RFID readers are tackling the real-world challenges of warehousing and logistics digitalisation — enabling intelligent sorting, asset management, material traceability, and MES production line upgrades that make operations smarter and more connected across the supply chain. 👉 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gE2ABxPh #RAINAlliance #RAINRFID #SmartLogistics #Warehousing #SupplyChain #AssetTracking

🎤 Curious about this year's RAIN in Action end-user lineup? It's extraordinary! From the retailers rewriting store operations to the hospitals transforming patient care, from the manufacturers reshaping supply chains to the innovators building the circular economy — the 2026 stage in Madrid is where you'll hear directly from the people making it happen. Early end-user speakers confirmed include leaders from Primark, IKEA, JD Sports, VF Corporation, Intersport France, Fresenius Kabi, Texas Children's Hospital, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Semperit, Christie Lite, Intrauma Europe, and COLEO — with more to be announced soon. ✨ Register now for RAIN in Action Madrid, 29 September – 1 October ⏰ Early Bird rates close 5 August 👉 Explore the full agenda and register: https://lnkd.in/gHX79sWn #RAINinAction2026 #InfrastructureToImpact #RAINAlliance

⏰ The countdown to RAIN in Action is on, and we couldn't be more excited for the conversations ahead — starting with a preview from our sponsors of the big questions they're tackling. In this feature, Juho Partanen, VP of Market Transformation at Impinj, reflects on RAIN RFID's long game: the road from retail success to true ubiquity, where every item — every blister pack, surgical instrument, carton of strawberries, and bottle of Rioja — carries a digital identity that can be read, traced, and acted upon at every step. Two decades of retail deployments proved RAIN RFID works and can scale, but as Juho points out, that was the easier part. Sectors like food, pharma, and healthcare aren't inheriting a pre-tagged supply chain; they're building tagging programs and reader infrastructure from the ground up. In this piece, he discusses the real barriers to getting to ubiquity, alongside the powerful accelerants pulling RAIN forward. His core message: ubiquity isn't an accident. It's the outcome of deliberate choices being made right now. A big thank you to Impinj for being a RAIN in Action sponsor and helping drive these conversations forward. 🙏 📖 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gF_PDNu6 Want more insights like this — live and in person? Join us at RAIN in Action and connect with the people shaping the future of RAIN RFID. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gyrHnziZ #RAINRFID #RAINinAction2026 #InfrastructuretoImpact

The language of circular fashion is everywhere. The infrastructure to back it up is still being built, and RAIN RFID is showing promise as part of that foundation. In this recent article, Samin Aayanifard from RAIN Alliance member Impinj examines what the early evidence from sortation pilots and recycling trials actually tells us, and is honest about what still needs to happen. The results so far are encouraging! 🎉 Sortation pilots by Avery Dennison with TEXAID demonstrated near-perfect identification accuracy — including for black garments and mixed fibres that challenge optical systems — and dramatic reductions in scanning labour. Mechanical and chemical recycling trials, including work by Primo1D and Avery Dennison, found that thoughtfully integrated RAIN tags are compatible with recycling processes, with no trace of tag components in finished recycled material. But getting to scale requires the industry to move together — brands committing to embedded tagging, technology providers delivering lifecycle-ready tags, and sorters and recyclers aligning on the data they need. The evidence base is building. The infrastructure is being laid. 👉 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gsE3ieJ3 #RAINAlliance #RAINRFID #Textiles #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #Recycling #DigitalProductPassport #Fashion

Exciting news from RAIN Alliance member Checkpoint Systems, who have just introduced READFINITY® — a next-generation all-in-one RAIN RFID reader family built for the modern retail environment. READFINITY® reads RAIN RFID tags at ultra-fast speeds, processes data in real time directly on the device, and integrates seamlessly with existing POS infrastructure and self-checkout kiosks — improving inventory accuracy, strengthening loss prevention, and accelerating checkout without the need to overhaul existing infrastructure. A great example of the continued innovation happening across the RAIN ecosystem. 👉 Learn more! https://lnkd.in/gvZqMjTi #RAINAlliance #RAINRFID #RetailTech #InventoryManagement #Innovation

Looking for a good weekend read? This new report from the ASHP Foundation makes a compelling case for where RAIN RFID in healthcare is heading. It is moving beyond isolated use cases toward enterprise-wide infrastructure spanning inventory, automation, and patient care workflows. The greatest value, as this report makes clear, comes not from counting inventory but from the data-driven decisions that RAIN RFID makes possible: improving patient safety, compliance, and operational efficiency. Two themes stand out. First, interoperability is the foundation for scaling RAIN RFID beyond single-purpose deployments, and proprietary systems that create vendor lock-in are a significant long-term risk, particularly as pharmaceutical manufacturers increasingly ship products with pre-applied RAIN RFID tags. Second, upstream tagging at the manufacturer or wholesaler level is consistently identified as the most scalable long-term strategy. Health systems that invest in flexible, standards-based RAIN RFID strategies today will be best positioned to reduce costs, meet regulatory demands, and enable safer, more connected patient care. 👉 https://lnkd.in/enpkcwcc #RAINAlliance #RAINRFID #Healthcare #PatientSafety #Pharmacy #Interoperability #SupplyChain

Congratulations to RAIN Alliance member XERAFY! Their smart RAIN RFID labels for pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging will be featured by AIPIA on the Innovation Stage at CPHI 2026, taking place 8–10 July in Bangkok. Their featured smart RAIN labels, XSKIN Gamma and Metal Skin® Delta, show how application-specific smart RAIN labels and compact healthcare RAIN tags can support gamma-sterilized packaging, on-metal healthcare assets, medical device identification, and compliance-supporting traceability workflows. Learn more!👉 https://lnkd.in/gJDMxXQX #RAINAlliance #RAINRFID #Healthcare #Pharmaceutical #Traceability #CPHI #Innovation

✨ We're getting excited about the conversations and insights coming to RAIN in Action this September, and thanks to our sponsor TSC Auto ID Technology we have a preview of what some of that might look like. In this feature, TSC explores the strategic evolution of RAIN RFID — the shift from isolated point solutions and data silos to connected, enterprise-wide ecosystems. TSC lays out what it takes to scale successfully: prioritizing open standards from GS1 and ISO, treating hardware as an integration project rather than a one-off rollout, and partnering with solution enablers that connect tag encoding, printing, mobile capture, and infrastructure into systems like ERP, WMS, and MES — where the data can actually drive decisions. 📖 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/dbH_D4Fr Want more insights like this — live and in person? Join us at RAIN in Action and connect with the people shaping the future of RAIN RFID. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gyrHnziZ #RAINRFID #RAINinAction2026 #RiASponsor #InfrastructuretoImpact

The fashion industry generates 92 million tonnes of waste every year, and product traceability is one of the most powerful tools the industry has to address it. Regulators are taking note: the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) will require every garment sold in the EU to carry a Digital Product Passport (DPP), and California’s Responsible Textile Recovery Act (SB 707) is setting similar expectations in the US. The moment to start preparing is now. In this guest article for GO TRACE - More Traceability, for Responsible Fashion, RAIN Alliance President Aileen Ryan explores why RAIN RFID is uniquely well-positioned to serve as the data carrier of choice for textile Digital Product Passports — and why the infrastructure many retailers need may already be closer than they think. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gabn3hFK #RAINAlliance #RAINRFID #DigitalProductPassport #DPP #Textiles #Fashion #ESPR #Circularity #Sustainability