Compostable RFID Antenna Applications

Eco-friendly, RFID Antennas. Recyclable, biodegradable, additive copper on paper tags.

Copprinting RFID Antennas overview

Reducing Environmental Impact of RFID tags with Copprint

RFID tags are essential for digital asset tracking, with applications in supply chain management, inventory control, access, payments, and more. However, with over 45 billion plastic and aluminum RFID tags produced annually, their polluting chemical etching and non-degradable materials are contributing to a growing environmental crisis, filling landfills and oceans with tag waste.
Copprint offers an eco-friendly solution by enabling manufacturers to use compostable copper and clean, additive fabrication processes. Our copper-on-paper RFID antennas provide a low-cost, non-hazardous, biodegradable alternative to traditional tags. These smart green tags offer a sustainable, on-shore solution for trackable, connected products (IoT), significantly reducing the environmental impact of RFID technology.

RFID tags and antennas that don't outlive your clothes.

Compostable RFID tags

Copprint conductive inks enable simple printing of RFID antennas. Our additive copper inks are recyclable, biodegradable and compostable.
Copprint lets manufactures replace aluminum/plastic RFIDS with eco-friendly materials and processes, for sustainable copper/paper RFID tags, reducing overall environmental impact.

Lower RFID Manufacturing Costs

Copprint copper inks make it possible to shift from chemical etching to additive copper manufacturing, reducing 40-55% of RFID fabrication costs. Printed copper eliminates costly and toxic chemical etching processes including copper sheet waste, CU laminate, along with increasing environmental regulatory costs of pollutants and energy required for plating (PTH), photolithography and stripping/etching.

Cut Carbon Emissions by 50% on Every RFID Tag and Antenna

Additive copper manufacturing of RFIDs reduces CO2 emissions by minimizing material waste, energy consumption, and additional processing. Printed RFIDs also lower pollutants, enabling clean, onshore manufacturing that significantly cuts transportation emissions (since 90% of chemical etching RFID manufacturing is in APAC).

ISRA Cards Pioneers Eco-Friendly RFID with Copper-Printed, Temperature and Humidity Sensors

ISRA Cards, a leading RFID manufacturer producing over 50 million cards annually, introduces the first copper-printed temperature and humidity sensor RFID using Copprint inks.

This shift to copper-based sensors reduces material waste and resource use, setting a new sustainability benchmark and solidifying ISRA’s position as a leader in eco-friendly RFID production.
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Copprint Copper Inks for RFID Antennas

LF301
LF301

Conductive Copper Ink, Thin Layer Antennas on Paper

Antenna/RFID
Paper
Screen printing
Flexo/Gravure
Dispensing
Low viscosity
Flexible substrates
Small particle size
LF361
LF361

General Purpose Conductive Copper Ink, Thin Layers.

Antenna/RFID
Heaters
Membrane switches
PET
Screen printing
Low viscosity
Thin layers
Flexible substrates
Low sintering temperature
Small particle size
LF350
LF350

Conductive Nano Copper Ink—Thin Layers

PET
Aluminum/Alumina
Glass
FR4
Screen printing
Flexo/Gravure
Inkjet
LIFT & EHD
Dispensing
Thin layers
Flexible substrates
Rigid substrates
Low sintering temperature
Fully Nano
LF360
LF360

General Purpose Conductive Copper Ink

PCB
Heaters
Membrane switches
PET
Aluminum/Alumina
Glass
FR4
Screen printing
LIFT & EHD
Dispensing
Flexible substrates
Rigid substrates
Low sintering temperature
LF302
LF302

Conductive Copper Ink, Thick Layer Antenna on Paper

Antenna/RFID
Paper
Screen printing
Thick layers
Flexible substrates

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