Q03 · Techniques & MethodsTrial▲ AcceleratingHorizon: 12-18 mo
Digital Product Passport
Structured, machine-readable records of a product's materials, provenance and lifecycle.
Extended-producer-responsibility and circular-economy regulation in multiple markets are converting product passports from a sustainability nice-to-have into a market-access requirement.
Signals behind this placement
- —Extended-producer-responsibility rules are converting passports into market-access requirements.
- —Several regions have published phased timelines affecting specific product categories.
Digital Product Passport across other industries
Machine-readable provenance and lifecycle records, increasingly a market-access requirement.
SustainabilityCompliance
From the Manufacturing & Industrial Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.
An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.