Identification Products for Warehouses

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In fast-paced warehouse inventory management, efficient asset management is essential for maintaining accurate inventory, preventing errors, and meeting customer demand. Durable barcode tags play a critical role in tracking assets, automating workflows, and minimizing costly mistakes.

Metalcraft’s ID solutions are designed for tough conditions—resisting abrasion, chemicals, and extreme temperatures—while integrating seamlessly with your warehouse management system (WMS) or inventory management software.

With Metalcraft, you can:

  • Automate inventory tracking and reduce manual errors

  • Prevent shortages, overstocking, and equipment loss

  • Gain real-time visibility into your warehouse inventory

  • Cut costs and improve operational efficiency

Whether you’re tagging racks, pallets, containers, or equipment, Metalcraft delivers ID solutions that help optimize your warehouse and protect your bottom line.

Durable. Dependable. Data-Driven. That’s ID Made Better®.

Explore Warehouse Barcodes

Pallet Barcode Tags
Pallet Barcode Tags enable reliable tracking of pallets or products, featuring durable adhesive for polypropylene pallets or optional holes for rivet attachment. View Product
Warehouse Rack Labels
Warehouse Rack Labels streamline organization and efficiency in dynamic warehouse environments, adapting easily to various storage configurations and product movement. View Product
Paint-Resist Container Label
Metalcraft’s Paint Resist Container Labels offer unmatched durability with a matte finish that enhances barcode readability, reduces glare, and resists paint, graffiti, and chemicals for long-lasting identification. View Product

Explore Warehouse RFID

RFID Hang Tags
Metalcraft's reusable RFID hang tags offer durable, customizable tracking for assets on various surfaces, with easy attachment and rugged performance. View Product
DuraDestruct RFID Tags – Plastic
The DuraDestruct RFID Security Tag features a dual-destruct design, breaking the antenna upon tampering to limit read range and crumbling if further removal is attempted, ensuring secure, non-transferable tagging. View Product
RFID Flex Hard Tags
Metalcraft's RFID Flex Hard Tags offer a cost-effective, durable, and flexible solution for rugged assets, delivering reliable 22-24 ft. read range performance, ideal for returnable containers and harsh environments. View Product
Stick & Staple RFID Tag
Metalcraft's Stick and Staple RFID Tag combines adhesive with an option for stapling, ensuring secure attachment to hard-to-adhere surfaces without damaging the inlay. View Product
Universal RFID Hard Tag
The Universal RFID Hard Tag provides excellent read ranges on any surface, durable impact-resistant housing, UV protection, and customizable, high-quality labels, ideal for asset tracking in harsh environments. View Product

From The Asset Tracking Blog

November 26, 2024
Metalcraft: 74 Years Of ID Made Better

Metalcraft highlights 74 years of innovation, launching advanced RFID products, expanding services, boosting production, and supporting community initiatives while enhancing asset tracking solutions.

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February 17, 2026
7 Common Mistakes Companies Make With Returnable Containers (and How To Avoid Them)

Discover 7 common mistakes with returnable containers that drive hidden costs, reduce asset utilization, and weaken supply chain control—and how to avoid them.

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December 20, 2024
Why Metalcraft’s RFID Tags Work For Facilities Management

Metalcraft’s barcode and RFID solutions enhance facilities management with durable, customizable asset tracking that improves efficiency, accuracy, security, and long-term reliability.

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Asset Tracking Checklist

So, you want to implement an asset tracking system. Where do you start? This checklist provides an easy-to-follow process to make sure you start off on the right track.

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Asset Tracking Checklist

Warehouse Case Studies

Improving Distribution For Casey’s

A distribution center with reusable totes was experiencing labels coming off or being destroyed. Metalcraft's plastic, conformable, durable label holds up against abrasion, heat, cold and humidity, improving asset identification for the company.

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Information Is Power – Robert Dietrick Company

Robert Dietrick Company and Metalcraft partner to provide value-added service to customers.

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Making Asset Tracking More "Convenient" For Maverik

Metalcraft partners with Maverik for asset tracking solutions on assets such as registers, credit card machines, computers, ovens, freezers and deli cases.

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Warehouse Videos

Photo Anodized Metal Tag: Durability Test

In this video, Metalcraft tests the heat resistance of photo-anodized metal tags against premium polyester tags. Photo-anodized metal tags excelled, maintaining readability, structural integrity, and durability under extreme heat, while polyester tags discolored and warped. The metal tags, designed for tough environments, offer superior performance in high-temperature settings and resist UV rays, chemicals, and wear. Although initially more expensive, their longevity makes them cost-effective, ideal for industries requiring durable, reliable tags like manufacturing, aerospace, and power plants. Watch the video for detailed results.

Photo Anodized Metal Tag: Durability Test
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Tabbed vs. Standard Nameplates: Efficiency Showdown
Defining Metalcraft – ID Made Better

FAQs

Asset management is critical in this industry because tracking inventory and ensuring accurate deliveries are essential to operations. Proper asset tracking helps businesses reduce errors, minimize losses, and optimize supply chain efficiency.

Commonly tracked assets include:

  • Pallets and barrels (reusable for multiple years in shipping cycles)
  • Large shipping containers
  • Individual packages
  • Warehouse equipment such as forklifts and storage racks

Identification products, such as durable barcode and RFID tags, help businesses:

  • Automate inventory tracking
  • Improve load verification to minimize missed deliveries
  • Reduce shortages and incorrect shipments
  • Deter theft and counterfeiting

Enhance supply chain transparency

RFID tags provide long-lasting, automated tracking that enhances security and efficiency. Key benefits include:

  • Durability: withstands harsh handling conditions, heat and dirt
  • Real-time tracking: provides up-to-date location data for assets
  • Process automation: reduces manual labor and human errors in inventory tracking
  • Cost savings: prevents unnecessary purchases and delivery mistakes

 

Missed deliveries cost distribution companies $25-30 million per year nationwide. Automating QA processes and load verification with RFID  helps ensure accuracy, reduce costly errors and improving customer satisfaction.

Metalcraft ID specialists are experts in durable, reliable, and cost-effective ID technologies. Our solutions:

  • Improve inventory accuracy
  • Enhance real-time tracking and process optimization
  • Reduce costs associated with lost or mishandled assets
  • Provide long-lasting durability for harsh environments

Metalcraft specializes in custom-engineered, high-performance asset tracking solutions. We understand the unique challenges of warehousing and distribution and offer rugged, reusable, and reliable ID technologies to keep your operations running smoothly.

Contact us today to discuss your specific asset management needs! Our team will help you find the best barcode, RFID, or customized ID solution to improve accuracy, reduce losses, and optimize your supply chain.