15 Oct 2025
Hana RFID Honored with the Prestigious Allan Gilligan Award by AIM Global
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Award highlights Hana’s role in shaping the future of sustainable, connected mobility through embeddable RFID innovation.
According to the AIM Award judges, “The judges felt Hana RFID was a worthy recipient for the Allan Gilligan Award because the company embodies the very qualities the award was created to recognize with the visionary innovations in tire-tagging, long-term technical leadership, and cross-industry collaboration in advancing automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) within supply chain logistics.”
This recognition highlights Hana RFID’s pioneering role in embeddable RFID tire tagging, an innovation that enables individual tire identification for improved traceability, safety, and sustainability. The company’s early focus on tire lifecycle management and European Product Passport readiness has positioned Hana as a trusted partner to global tire manufacturers and mobility ecosystems.
“AIM is happy to announce Hana RFID as the Allan Gilligan Award winner for 2025,” said Mary Lou Bosco, CEO at AIM Global. “Hana RFID anticipated the needs of the tire and automotive sectors years before global regulations required digital traceability. Their early investment in embeddable RFID tags for tires laid the groundwork for individual tire identification, which is now central to global initiatives.”
Michael Allen, who personally presented the award to Hana RFID during his visit to the company’s Solon, Ohio headquarters, commented: “I was grateful to get the opportunity to tour the impressive Hana facility in Solon, Ohio, and see the state-of-the-art facility in action. Watching firsthand the development of modern tire logistics at the ground level gave me an added level of appreciation to the work Hana does on a daily basis.”
The Allan Gilligan Award was established in 2012 to honor Allan Gilligan, a visionary in the development of global supply chain standards. It is presented annually to an individual or organization that has made outstanding contributions to advancing AIDC applications in materials handling and logistics.
Receiving the award on behalf of Hana RFID, John Erdmann, President and CEO, expressed his gratitude and reinforced Hana’s commitment to advancing the RFID industry:
“We are deeply honored to receive the Allan Gilligan Award from AIM Global, an organization that has played a pivotal role in building trust and collaboration across the AIDC community. This recognition reinforces our mission to innovate responsibly and to deliver technologies that connect everyday items in meaningful ways. Our success with embeddable tire tagging is just the beginning — as part of the Hana Microelectronics Group, we are already developing new embeddable RFID solutions for other industries that will expand the possibilities of intelligent product identification and traceability.”
