Starting in 2024, the European Union will implement a new regulation requiring nearly all products sold in the EU to feature a Digital Product Passport (DPP). This initiative aims to enhance transparency across product value chains by providing comprehensive information about each product’s origin, materials, environmental impact and disposal recommendations. 

The DPP is designed to provide reliable product data supporting sustainability, circularity, value retention for re-use, remanufacturing and recycling. 

Traceable Digital is a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform enabling EU SME manufacturers to create, manage and publish DPPs in compliance with the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and the EU Battery Regulation.

Their solution is aimed at SMEs because existing solutions are designed for large corporations with significant IT budgets. SMEs (99% of EU businesses) lack affordable, self-service alternatives.

Traceable provides a pay-as-you-go platform that manufacturers can deploy in days. 

It has pre-built templates mapped to ESPR delegated acts for batteries, textiles, electronics and furniture. Manufacturers answer questions and the platform generates compliant passports automatically.

It has separate interfaces for manufacturers (DPP creation), suppliers (data collection), verifiers (validation) and consumers (QR-linked passport viewer).

It is aligned with CIRPASS-2, GS1 Digital Link, UNECE Transparency Protocol and W3C standards for data portability.

The beta platform is operational, and the company is onboarding pilot customers in Germany and gathering feedback on SME implementation barriers.