In the age of sustainability and digitalisation, the digital product passport (DPP) is becoming increasingly important: it accompanies a product throughout its entire life cycle, makes material origin and reparability transparent and thus creates the basis for genuine circular economy thinking.
At the beginning of February 2025, Stannol hosted the ‘Journey into the circular economy’ organised by the SME Digital Centre Future Culture initiative. One highlight of the event: insights into the practical implementation of the digital product passport, which Stannol plans to introduce in early summer.
Ingo Lomp, authorised signatory and Head of Innovation at Stannol, and Stephan Multhaupt, Project Manager of the SME Digital Centre WertNetzWerke, shed light on the framework conditions required to successfully establish the digital product passport. A joint blog post summarised how Stannol intends to use the digital product passport today to optimise maintenance intervals, automatically record life cycle assessment data and seamlessly document supply chains. From initial development to disposal, all information is made centrally accessible – a real game changer for Industry 4.0 and sustainable product design.
Why the digital product passport is so important:
- Process reliability: Standardised data formats allow quality and compliance requirements to be checked automatically.
- Resource efficiency: Material and energy flows become visible, reorders and waste are avoided.
- Repairability & recycling: Consumers, disposal companies and repair service providers receive all the information they need at the touch of a button – from circuit diagrams to spare parts sources.
Insights into practice
Stannol demonstrates how metal and electronic components can already be provided with a digital product passport, for example to make soldering processes traceable and monitor them in real time throughout their service life. A convincing example of how a traditional trade can be seamlessly integrated into the digital circular economy.
Your added value as an ISTE partner
As the Institute for Sustainability Technology and Education, we support you in integrating the digital product passport into your business models:
- Workshops & webinars on the introduction of DPP technologies
- Hands-on labs at the Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld to develop prototypes
- Research and funding advice for your funding applications within the framework of EU initiatives
Curious to find out more? Read the full blog post at Stannol and find out how the digital product passport makes your company fit for the future:
👉 ‘The digital product passport’ at Stannol
Stay tuned – with ISTE you can shape your next stage of sustainable production!