Reflections on Digital Product Passports, sustainability, and business opportunities with Lingon. Learn more about what the new directive from the European Commission means for your business and how Lingon can provide both compliance and business value to your company.
Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are an initiative from the European Commission to improve the transparency, traceability, and sustainability of products. DPPs will eventually be mandatory for certain products, initially in the electronics and textiles sector. Hence, good stuff that will improve society and make a better world for our children!
The challenge here, and what is new from a technology perspective, is that each individual actual product - the chair you bought, the battery in your electric bicycle, and so on - needs its own digital representation; a “digital twin.” This is because DPPs are about tracing each instance of a product through its whole life cycle - from raw material, via the product sold, back to the recycled material.
How does this relate to Lingon? Well, we have already developed technologies that solve the technical challenges and meet the requirements for DPPs - and beyond!
Our starting point was not DPP compliance though, but considerably more user-value-oriented use cases like product authenticity, provenance, proof of ownership, and product storytelling. To do this, we had to solve the product traceability and metadata challenges. As it turns out, with this we also cover the DPP set of requirements pretty much 100% - even the suggestion from the EU that DPPs need to be instantiated on blockchain infrastructure.
What sets the Lingon solution apart when it comes to DPPs is that our ambition was way higher than compliance already from the get-go. In fact, this wasn’t on our mind since DPPs wasn’t even on the EU’s radar when Lingon got started.
Using our solution, Lingon partners will be onboarded and compliant with DPPs, quickly and at low cost, but from our perspective this is the easy and less exciting part. Where the real value is found and where it gets truly interesting, beyond compliance, is in all the cool things our producers and their customers can do with the Lingon platform and the Lingon certificates.
DPPs is still early days yet, but thanks to our head start, we at Lingon feel we are already years ahead of the game.
Currently, we are working with furniture manufacturers to further enhance our solution with relation to DPPs by adding RFID and other product marking technologies and to adapt our platform to common manufacturing processes. Find out more about Lingon and the Swedish furniture manufacturers and designers here.
However, we are actively looking to find new partners and expand into other sectors. Contact us and let’s discuss how we can make DPPs, digital twins, and product certificates more than just a matter of boring compliance for you and your company!
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