About TrenStar

TrenStar’s vision is to become the gold standard for asset tracking and management solutions. Our asset management, supply chain technology and logistics services significantly reduce operational costs, improve return on investments and enhance business processes for our customers. In the longer term our aim is to do this not only for our customers, but for entire industries as well. In everything we do for our customers, we will deliver results.

TrenStar’s history is steeped in leveraging Auto ID technology to track and manage assets. Since our inception in 2001, our mission has been to provide visibility into the supply chain for our customers’ asset fleets – reducing operating expenses, improving return on investment and creating actionable business intelligence from the vast amount of data generated by these asset management implementations.

TrenStar’s end-to-end solutions include:

• Software and services to track and manage assets
• Auto ID-enabled tracking technology and strategic logistics services
• Information-based business process improvement services

We have extensive and unrivaled experience in asset tracking and management, and, in certain niche industries, have actually acquired the majority of assets ourselves (brewing and synthetic rubber for example). By doing so,we actually use our own track and trace technology to manage our fleets, and now leverage that invaluable experience in designing implementations for our customer base. We bring that experience directly to customers who want to use our proven technology to more effectively track and manage their assets.

TrenStar is deeply rooted in the use of Auto ID technology for asset tracking and management applications. In 2001 TrenStar Inc acquired leading edge middleware provider KTP (based in the UK) which became the heart of TrenStar’s Auto ID Smart Center. TrenStar’s UK operation has been delivering Auto ID solutions since 1977, and installed its first RFID asset tracking project in 1998 – one of the first companies in the industry to do so.

TrenStar is also the first company to offer its unique combination of technology and services to support the pooling of common, non-strategic containers and other mobile assets. Industry asset pooling helps participating companies achieve savings and economies of scale that they could not achieve on their own.

Consistently ranked as one of the top software developers in the Denver area and named to the 2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in North America, TrenStar has offices in Denver, the United Kingdom Germany and South Africa.

Watch TrenStar's new 3-D Video. In the video you can see how TrenStar brings to the market asset acquisition, along with an RFID technology-enabled management service outsourced on a pay-per-use basis so that you can improve your customer service, reduce operating expenses, and manage assets and asset contents effectively.

Industries

Airlines and cargo operators have a history of outsourcing key operational activities to outside suppliers, yet outsourcing ULD management has not been one of them. That is until Lufthansa Cargo and TrenStar introduced their joint venture Jettainer in December 2003. Jettainer helps airlines break through the barriers of excess ULD inventory, traffic imbalances, low utilization and hidden holding costs. Jettainer has created the first outsourced solution for the airline industry that efficiently manages and tracks ULDs and their contents as they travel around the world, and the first to support the formation and management of a global ULD pool. Download Air Cargo Industry Sheet

TrenStar owns, manages and tracks millions of beer kegs in Europe. In fact we own more than 60 percent - and counting - of the total number of kegs in the UK, where customers with long-term contracts with us including Carlsberg and Scottish and Newcastle benefit from our mobile asset management solution.

Our Auto ID based rack management solution tracks the returnable metal racks that glass producers use to transport product. It uses tracking enablers such as RFID (link to RFID page) to track glass racks and their contents through the supply chain including the automated capture of empty racks at the float plant receiving areas, the association of rack ID with contents, and automated capture of full racks at the dispatch areas. This solution increases visibility, helps limit losses, increases the utilization and availability of your rack fleet and ultimately improves customer service and allows you to focus on your business.

The inability to track equipment location, usage, service and maintenance causes companies to lose money on lease and service agreements. Lost, stolen, or broken heavy equipment can cost a company hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets as well as thousands in lost productivity and revenue. TrenStar can help you with inventory control, theft recovery, preventive and proactive maintenance (reduction of downtime), performance information, engine hours, and geo-fencing.

TrenStar knows that lost, stolen or broken equipment can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets as well as lost revenue and decreased productivity. Our asset tracking solution for the industrial parts and equipment sector can improve your inventory control, augment theft recovery, provide preventative and proactive maintenance and prevent shrinkage whilst providing a level of tracking information that companies have never experienced before. TrenStar’s asset tracking and management technology provides a solution that enables you to have complete visibility of your industrial parts and equipment. We are currently working with a variety of companies, from rail and rail equipment leasing companies to Oil and Gas providers, who are interested in exploring how they can achieve better traceability and utilization of their assets.

Synthetic rubber producers want to get back to focusing on core activities, but they are burdened with a variety of problems associated with the distribution of their product. To solve these problems and help producers deal with existing and future requirements, TrenStar delivers a unique outsourced container management solution that includes the supply of industry-preferred aluminum containers that leading rubber producers have been using for more than 30 years. Download Synthetic Rubber Industry Sheet