EU Digital Product Passport
Your buyers will require verified production data. Be ready before they ask.
Under the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), every textile product sold in Europe will need a Digital Product Passport — and the data burden lands on factories like yours. StitchProof makes you DPP-ready.
What is a DPP?
A digital identity for every product you make
A Digital Product Passport is a verified digital record — accessed via a QR code on the product — showing fibre composition, manufacturing origin, chemical compliance, environmental footprint and traceability across every supply-chain tier.
2024
ESPR entered into force. The legal framework requiring Digital Product Passports for textiles is already law.
2027
Textile-specific rules (delegated acts) expected — defining exactly which data every product must carry.
2028
Enforcement phases in after an 18+ month transition. Brands selling into the EU must comply — wherever their suppliers are located.
Why this reaches your factory
The obligation flows down the supply chain
The DPP applies to any brand selling into the EU, regardless of where production happens. That means fabric mills, dye houses and garment factories worldwide — Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers — will be required by their brand customers to provide verified, machine-readable production data. Only about a third of top apparel companies currently track their full value chain. The factories that can deliver this data will win the orders.
If you supply EU-selling brands…
- Your customers will demand batch-level production data in digital form.
- Requests are already appearing in commercial requirements — ahead of the legal deadline.
- Suppliers who can't provide it risk losing programmes to those who can.
If you prepare now…
- You become the low-risk choice for compliance-driven sourcing decisions.
- The same data improves your own quality, efficiency and waste performance today.
- You avoid a rushed, expensive scramble when deadlines land.
Our DPP-readiness approach
Five steps from paper records to passport-ready data
We don't sell compliance paperwork — we build the factory data foundation that makes compliance a by-product of good operations.
Capture
Digitise the production data that matters — fibre composition, batch numbers, facility and date, chemicals used, energy and water consumption — at the point where it's created.
Structure
Organise data into standard, machine-readable formats with unique identifiers, ready to plug into brand and regulatory systems.
Trace
Link records across production stages — this yarn lot, into this fabric roll, dyed in this batch, sewn into these garments — building an unbroken chain.
Verify
Back every claim with system records, certificates and test reports — because a passport with wrong data is worse than none.
Share
Deliver verified data upward to brands and DPP platforms through clean exports and integrations — on demand, without manual effort.
Be the supplier your buyers don't have to worry about
Start a DPP-readiness assessment: we review how your production data is captured today and map the shortest path to verified, shareable, passport-ready records.
Start a DPP-Readiness Conversation