Industry · Chemicals & plastics
The product passport for chemicals & plastics: affected across every customer industry.
There is no dedicated DPP act with a date for chemicals and plastics – and yet the product passport hits the industry earlier than most: substances of concern are a mandatory component of practically every product passport, recycled content must be evidenced, and the data requests come from all downstream industries – from textiles through electronics and construction to automotive. REACH, SVHC and SCIP provide the starting data.
- Cross-cuttingAffected via the customer industries – no dedicated delegated-act date
- SoC obligationSubstances of concern in practically every product passport
- Since 2021SCIP database – a notification duty today, a DPP data source tomorrow
- RecyclateRecycled content becomes evidence-based – per batch instead of per brochure
01 — Situation
The cross-cutting industry: no date of its own – but every customer deadline.
To be honest, first what is not true: there is no delegated act called “Digital Product Passport for Chemicals” with a date. The exposure of chemicals and plastics processing runs via the customer industries – and that is exactly what makes it so broad. Whether textiles (act expected end of 2026/2027), furniture (expected 2028), electronics (expected 2028–2029), construction products (~2029–2030) or automotive with the battery passport from 2027: every one of these passports contains polymers, additives, paints, adhesives and coatings – and therefore your data.
The core of every passport is information on substances of concern. Here the industry is not starting from zero: REACH information duties along the supply chain, the SVHC candidate list and the SCIP database (notification duty since 2021) are reality today – and will become data sources of the DPP. The difference: in future this information must be available machine-readable, per product or batch, and ready to pass on – not as a safety-data-sheet PDF.
Then there is the recyclate topic: plastics processors must document and evidence recycled content – customers need those figures for their own passports. All customer-industry deadlines in the DPP timeline.
02 — Requirements
What data your customers will demand.
The details vary per customer industry and delegated act – but the core categories of the requests reaching material suppliers are foreseeable:
Substances of concern
Substances of concern per material and formulation – beyond SVHC, with concentration data and machine-readable pass-through instead of an SDS PDF.
Recycled content with evidence
Post-consumer/post-industrial recycled content per compound and batch – robustly documented, auditable, compatible with certification schemes.
Material composition
Polymer base, additives, fillers, masterbatches – at the granularity the end product’s passport requires, while protecting formulation know-how.
Carbon & environmental data
Product carbon footprints per material – from industry average to supplier-specific value, because customers have to calculate with them.
Circularity
Recyclability, sortability, possibly information on degradability and suitability for mechanical recycling – a design criterion for your customers.
Batch & identifier logic
Data must be attributable to the batch or lot the customer processes – the precondition for your figures arriving in their passport.
From how many industries are you already receiving substance and recyclate requests?
Textiles, furniture, electronics, construction, automotive – as a cross-cutting supplier you will soon be answering the same questions in five formats. We will show you how a central data model turns that into one process.
03 — Approach
Readiness for material suppliers in five steps.
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Exposure mapping
Sort the customer portfolio by customer industry and their DPP deadlines: who requests which data when – battery passport 2027 first, then textiles, electronics, construction?
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Data audit substances & recyclate
Take stock of REACH/SVHC/SCIP data, formulations and recyclate evidence: what exists in structured form, what sits in SDS PDFs and lab folders?
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Involve upstream suppliers
Additives, masterbatches, recyclates: pass data requirements on to your own procurement in a structured way – otherwise gaps remain in your ability to respond.
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Data model & access rights
A central material data model with batch linkage, tiered access rights (formulation protection) and connection to ERP/LIMS – one data record, many customer formats.
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Pilot data package
A real compound or product as a DPP-ready data package for a key account – as the blueprint for all further requests.
04 — FAQ
Frequently asked questions from chemicals & plastics processing.
Is there a dedicated DPP date for chemicals and plastics?
No – as of July 2026 there is no delegated act and no date specifically for chemicals/plastics. Exposure runs via the customer industries: battery passport fixed from 18 Feb 2027, textiles expected end of 2026/2027, furniture 2028, electronics 2028–2029, construction products ~2029–2030. Their deadlines effectively become your deadlines via data requests.
We already notify SCIP – are we not prepared with that?
Partly. SCIP (notification duty since 2021) and your REACH/SVHC processes are genuine groundwork and will become DPP data sources. But the passport demands more: batch- or product-specific, machine-readable data with pass-through logic into the chain – not just one authority notification per article.
How do we evidence recycled content robustly?
What counts is documented material flows per batch and a traceable mass-balance method – ideally backed by recognised certification schemes. Blanket percentages in a datasheet will not satisfy customers’ DPP requirements. We help set up capture and evidence management so they hold up as a process.
Do we have to disclose our formulations?
No – the DPP works with tiered access rights. Customers and authorities need defined information (for instance on substances of concern above thresholds), not your complete formulation. A clean data model separates who may see what – exactly that is part of our consulting.
What should we do now, concretely?
Three things: (1) map customers by DPP exposure and deadlines, (2) transfer substance and recyclate data from PDFs and island solutions into a structured material data model, (3) establish a repeatable process for customer requests. Whoever can deliver first wins tenders across all customer industries.
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One material data model, all customer industries – that is the efficient route.
Tell us briefly which materials you supply and into which industries – you will get an honest assessment of which requests come first and how you become answer-ready.
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