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New initiative to support retailers with digital product passports
Work on digital product passports is now moving from regulation into everyday practice. For many retail companies, the challenge is no longer understanding the requirements, but figuring out how to put the right processes and structures in place.
Highlights from the SwePass Open Project Meeting
The SwePass Open Project Meeting brought together representatives from industry, research organisations, public authorities and technology providers to share updates and experiences related to the Digital Product Passport (DPP) and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). The meeting offered an opportunity to discuss how the regulatory framework is evolving, how standardisation work is progressing, and how companies and projects are beginning to explore practical solutions for implementing Digital Product Passports.
Data sharing is easy. Understanding is harder.
Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are often discussed as a way to make product information more accessible. In practice, their value depends on something more basic: whether organisations can exchange data and still understand it in the same way.
How It Turned Out for the Palm House in Trace4Value
Accenture shares experiences on traceability and data maturity in SwePass
In SwePass, Accenture contributes experience from work on traceability, data quality, and digital structures. Through its engagement in several working groups, the company supports shared learning while also gaining deeper insights into how technology and organisational structures interact in practice.
Knowledge that prepares industry for change
Digital product passports will soon be inplaced, and companies across Sweden are beginning to adapt. Within SwePass, Chalmers Industriteknik helps businesses understand what these new requirements mean in practice and how traceability can be integrated into everyday operations.
Rethinking workwear transparency
As industries move toward stronger sustainability standards, workwear producers face increasing expectations to show where materials come from and how products can be reused. Through its participation in SwePass, Ted Bernhardtz At Work is exploring how shared data methods and digital tools can support a clearer, more circular future.
Building trust through transparency – lessons from Micki
As the European Union prepares to introduce requirements for digital product passports (DPPs), companies across Europe are exploring what increased product traceability will mean for production, design and consumer information. Swedish toy manufacturer Micki is one of the companies participating in SwePass, where real products and supply chains are used to develop and test procedures for digital product passports.
Glass that speaks: Tracing the future with Saint-Gobain
Digital product passports are gaining traction across the construction sector as a way to trace materials, improve recycling rates and enable more circular business models. At Saint-Gobain Glass, the concept ties directly into ongoing efforts to reduce waste and support a circular economy - but the path forward is not without its complexities.