Strater Global

Digital Product Passport

A passport for things, not people.

A record that travels with a physical product and answers, verifiably: what is it made of, what did it cost the environment, can it be repaired, and what happens to it at the end of its life.

What it actually is

A Digital Product Passport is a structured, machine-readable record tied to an individual product or batch. A buyer reaches it by scanning a code; a regulator or recycler reads the same record through a standard interface.

It is a disclosure instrument. Its value comes from the data being complete, current and attributable — not from the technology used to store it.

That is why it is a supply-chain problem before it is a software one.

Appliances and consumer electronics alongside a passport — a passport for products.

Why it is arriving now

Two forces, pushing the same direction.

Regulation

European sustainability rules

The EU's ecodesign framework makes product-level digital disclosure a condition of selling into the market, phased in by product category — batteries, textiles, electronics and construction among the first.

If you sell into Europe, the question is not whether, but which category and when.

Market

Buyers who ask

Corporate procurement increasingly requires evidence, not assurances. "Sustainable" as a claim is worth little; "sustainable" as an auditable record changes who you can sell to.

Companies that can produce the record early stop competing on price alone.

The part nobody warns you about

The data does not exist in one place, and some of it is not yours.

  • It is scattered. Material composition sits with suppliers, emissions with a consultant, repairability with engineering, end-of-life with nobody.
  • It is second-hand. Much of what you must disclose is produced by your suppliers — and you are accountable for its accuracy.
  • It has to stay current. A passport is not a launch project. Change a component and the record must change with it.
  • Wrong is worse than missing. A published record that turns out to be false is a liability, not a gap.

How we work on it

First

Scope and obligation

Which of your products are in scope, under which category, and what specifically must be disclosed for each.

Then

Data reality check

Where each required field lives today, who owns it, how current it is, and which fields nobody can produce yet. This is usually the uncomfortable part.

Then

Architecture and partner

How the record is stored, made verifiable and kept current — and which infrastructure partner delivers it, chosen against your actual volume and product mix.

Find out where you stand

Tell us what you manufacture and which markets you sell into. That is enough for a first read on scope and timing.

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