Powering Sustainability with the Digital Product Passport
The Digital Product Passport enables a system in which every product provides a comprehensive record of its journey, from origin to recycling, supporting the circular economy.
At its core, the Digital Product Passport (DPP)[1] is a powerful enabler of the circular economy. By providing essential data on a product’s environmental footprint, materials, performance, and—most importantly—end-of-life options, it supports key processes such as predictive maintenance, repair, remanufacturing, and recycling, maximizing product value while minimizing waste.
To achieve this, the DPP is redefining how product information is collected, processed, and shared across supply chains and value networks. This dynamic digital record serves as a single, reliable access point, enhancing transparency and regulatory compliance, while also driving sustainable innovation.
Advancing Circular Economy with Digital Product Passports
The Digital Product Passport is a game-changer for the circular economy, driving efficiency, recyclability, and full transparency across a product’s lifecycle. By unlocking access to product-level data, the DPP enables smarter repair, reuse, and recycling decisions.
This enables manufacturers to extend the lifecycle of their products and materials -ultimately reducing waste and conserving valuable resources- and enhancing resource recovery efforts. It also empowers consumers to make informed, eco-conscious choices—turning sustainability into a seamless part of everyday decision-making.
Unlocking Transparency for a Sustainable Value Network
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) revolutionizes traceability and transparency across a product’s entire lifecycle—from raw material sourcing to end-of-life management. Facilitating tracking across supply chains, harnessing information on product composition, social and environmental impact, it empowers businesses to build a better future.
Seamless Data Sharing
& Interoperability
With standardized protocols and formats, DPP enables frictionless data exchange, ensuring compatibility across platforms and unlocking real-time insights for all stakeholders.
Strengthening
Collaboration
From manufacturers and retailers to regulators and recyclers, DPP fosters a connected ecosystem where transparency drives smarter decision-making and greater sustainability impact.
Prioritizing Data Security
& Privacy
Built with compliance and data protection in mind, DPP safeguards intellectual property while maintaining strict adherence to data privacy regulations, ensuring trust at every stage.
Applications in Battery and Textile Sectors
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is reshaping sustainability and transparency across key industries, starting with batteries and textiles.
- Battery
- Textiles
The Battery Passport concerns different categories of batteries, from portable to industrial batteries, including batteries for EV or lighter means of transport. This record provides essential data on battery composition, carbon footprint, performance, and recyclability while ensuring compliance with the EU Battery Regulation. It enhances traceability of raw materials, responsible sourcing, and carbon footprint reporting, while supporting second-life applications and optimized recycling. By increasing transparency, stakeholders can better understand the environmental impact of batteries. The passport also plays a crucial role in facilitating battery reuse and recycling, reducing waste, and optimizing resource efficiency.
The Digital Product Passport for Textiles aims to enhance traceability, transparency, and circularity in the industry. It will introduce a digital identifier system containing comprehensive data about product composition, supply chain, environmental and social impact, usage, distribution, recyclability, and end-of-life management. This innovation drives circularity, reduces raw material consumption, and enables brands to differentiate through sustainability and product quality. For instance, a fashion brand could trace a garment’s cotton origin, chemical treatments, and recycling options, visible to consumers via a QR code.
However, battery and textile companies are not the only companies concerned, soon other industries like tire, construction products, toys, electronics manufacturers or chemicals will also need to meet digital product passports requirements.
Unlocking Opportunities Through Digital Product Passport Compliance
Complying with the Digital Product Passport requirements opens new opportunities for manufacturers to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and market competitiveness.
- Driving Innovation: Establishing advanced technical standards and data formats enables seamless product tracking, paving the way for smarter, more sustainable product designs
- Strengthening Collaboration: A more interconnected and collaborative ecosystem aligns manufacturers, distributors, consumers, and regulators, fostering transparency and efficiency
- Boosting Data-Driven Insights: Enhanced data collection unlocks valuable lifecycle insights for improving product lifecycles, optimizing resource efficiency, enabling new business models and enabling consumers, manufacturers, and authorities to make informed decisions regarding sustainability and compliance.
- Building Consumer Trust: Robust data security and privacy measures reinforce confidence in product authenticity and sustainability claims, while upcoming certification frameworks ensure compliance and reliability
Dassault Systèmes Solutions for Digital Product Passport
Dassault Systèmes empowers manufacturers to seamlessly comply with Digital Product Passport (DPP) regulations—and unlock new opportunities for sustainability and innovation.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides a collaborative environment where all necessary data for DPP compliance is centralized, enabling real-time collaboration and enhancing traceability and transparency across the entire value chain.
With lifecycle assessment capabilities, businesses can optimize product design, assess material durability, and reduce environmental impact, aligning with circular economy goals. By extending product life and minimizing raw material consumption, manufacturers can make smarter, more sustainable decisions—turning compliance into a competitive advantage.
Virtual Twin Technology: Enhancing DPP Implementation
Virtual twin technology enables manufacturers to collect, visualize, and analyze product data in real time. When combined with Digital Product Passports (DPP), it provides a holistic view of a product’s entire lifecycle—from raw material sourcing to end-of-life recycling.
By integrating virtual twins for DPP, manufacturers gain unmatched transparency across the value chain, optimizing product performance, reducing waste, and streamlining production processes. This seamless fusion of data and intelligence drives better decision-making, fuels innovation, and accelerates the transition to a more sustainable future.
FAQ on Digital Product Passport
The Digital Product Passport contains key product information, including environmental footprint, origin of raw materials, material composition, durability, repairability, hazardous substances, and end-of-life disposal options. It ensures transparency and traceability across the product's entire lifecycle.
The DPP will be gradually introduced as part of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR[1]). The first industries expected to implement the requirements for the digital product passport include batteries, textiles, and electronics, with full adoption anticipated by 2033.
A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a structured digital record containing essential product information, accessible via a QR code or similar identifier. It includes details on product composition, environmental impact, reparability, and recyclability, ensuring compliance with EU regulations. The format follows standardized data models to enable interoperability across industries.
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is primarily an initiative of the European Union under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). While its requirements currently apply to products placed on the EU market, similar initiatives are emerging globally as other regions consider adopting comparable frameworks to enhance sustainability and transparency. It is the case of China who has established a comprehensive framework to manage the traceability of batteries across their life cycle and their recycling.
The Digital Product Passport enhances sustainability by improving product transparency, circularity, and resource efficiency. It helps track materials, repairability, and recyclability, reducing waste and supporting a circular economy.
By providing accessible data on environmental impact, the DPP empowers consumers and businesses to make informed choices, promoting more sustainable consumption patterns. It is also integrated into EU policies like the Battery Regulation and Sustainable and Circular Textiles Strategy to encourage responsible sourcing and sustainable production.
Additionally, the DPP supports emissions reduction by improving product lifecycle management, minimizing waste, and lowering carbon footprints. As part of the EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan, it plays a crucial role in driving sustainable production and consumption.