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  "url": "https://proudtek.com/case-studies/industrial-laundry-pps-rfid-tag/",
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  "title": "250+ Wash Cycles — Industrial Laundry PPS Tags",
  "description": "A European uniform-rental operator deployed Proud Tek PPS-housed UHF RFID laundry tags across 1.8 million garments in three rental pools (workwear,...",
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  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Can these tags survive ozone treatment?",
      "answer": "Yes. The PPS housing is chemically inert to ozone at the concentrations used in commercial laundry (<5 ppm). The customer's healthcare-uniform pool runs ozone disinfection on every cycle and survival data is indistinguishable between the workwear pool (no ozone) and healthcare pool (ozone every cycle) over 250+ cycles."
    },
    {
      "question": "What read-rate degradation should we expect on heavily-wrinkled garments?",
      "answer": "Within 1 percentage point at the portal. The PPS tag is rigid and small (26 × 11 mm) so wrinkling around the tag is minimal even on bunched-up garments in a sorting bin. The dominant read-rate impact is metal interference (steel buttons, zip pulls). The customer's portal antennas are positioned to read the garment label side, which carries the tag, avoiding the metal-heavy seam side."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is the PPS housing food-safe for kitchen wear?",
      "answer": "PPS itself is FDA-compliant for indirect food contact (21 CFR 177.2415) and the customer's kitchen-uniform pool has run on this tag for 18 months with no compliance findings. The tag is heat-sealed onto the inner garment label, not in food-contact surfaces."
    },
    {
      "question": "How is end-of-life tag recovery handled?",
      "answer": "When a garment is retired, the PPS tag is mechanically cut from the garment label and recycled as a separate plastic waste stream. The chip itself is not recoverable in a useful form (it would need re-bonding to a new antenna), so the tag is treated as recyclable plastic. The customer is currently piloting a chip-reuse programme with Proud Tek where retired tags are returned for chip salvage and re-bonding to new antennas at 40% of new-tag cost."
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  "author": {
    "name": "Proud Tek Co., Limited"
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  "publisher": "Proud Tek Co., Limited",
  "credentials": [
    "ISO 9001:2015",
    "ISO 14001:2015",
    "RoHS Compliant",
    "CE Marking",
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