SOURCE/PASSPORT
DPP INTELLIGENCE / 2026
FOR MANUFACTURERS, BRANDS & SUPPLY-CHAIN TEAMSINDEPENDENT DPP INTELLIGENCE / FIELD 001

EVERY PRODUCTHAS A SOURCE.

Some can prove it.

Independent Digital Product Passport intelligence for manufacturers, brands, and supply-chain teams. Explore EU requirements, read sourced research, and understand the technology providers shaping traceability.

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02EDITORIAL STATEMENTINFORMATION / CONTEXT

PRODUCTS TRAVEL.
Information gets lost.

01Material02Origin03Process04Ownership05Afterlife

A product can cross countries, factories, suppliers, and marketplaces before reaching the person who owns it. SourcePassport follows the information that should travel with it.

WHY SOURCE MATTERS
03SELECTED READINGS13 PUBLISHED RECORDS

SELECTED
readings

Essential essays for understanding product identity, persistent data, and the systems being built around both.

01FundamentalsWhat Is a Digital Product Passport?8 min readJAN 14, 202603PerspectiveEvery Product Will Need a Memory8 min readFEB 11, 202606InfrastructureWhy Traceability Is Becoming Infrastructure8 min readMAR 25, 202607IndustriesDigital Product Passports for Fashion9 min readAPR 08, 202610CircularityFrom Ownership to Circularity8 min readMAY 20, 2026
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04TRACE A PRODUCTILLUSTRATIVE PRODUCT JOURNEY

ONE OBJECT.
Six recorded lives.

A product passport connects a physical item to records across its lifecycle. Explore this illustrative six-stage journey.

ILLUSTRATIVE PRODUCT JOURNEY / SP-00814EXAMPLE / NOT A LIVE RECORD
Location
AL WUSTA / OM
Date
2025.09.14
Material
RECYCLED ALUMINIUM
Process
EXTRACTION / SORT
Status
SOURCE RECORDED
Verification
SAMPLE DATA / NOT VERIFIED
  1. 01Raw materialSOURCE RECORDED
  2. 02ProcessingBATCH VERIFIED
  3. 03ManufacturingIDENTITY BOUND
  4. 04DistributionCHAIN CONTINUOUS
  5. 05OwnershipCUSTODY UPDATED
  6. 06ReusePATH AVAILABLE
05THE FIELD08 AREAS OF INQUIRY

THE FIELD

Subjects we follow as products become persistent records.

01Digital Product Passports

Persistent product records and the systems that carry them.

04 ARTICLES02Traceability

How events, materials, and claims become connected evidence.

05 ARTICLES03Provenance

The origin stories behind products, components, and data.

02 ARTICLES04Materials

The physical substances whose histories products inherit.

03 ARTICLES05Circularity

Information designed to survive use, repair, and recovery.

05 ARTICLES06Authenticity

Identity, verification, and the limits of product claims.

01 ARTICLES07Regulation

The policy environment shaping traceable product systems.

02 ARTICLES08Connected Products

What changes when physical products keep a digital context.

04 ARTICLES
06PASSPORT COMPOSITIONIDENTITY / NOT DESCRIPTION

A PASSPORT IS
not a label.

A label describes what a product claims to be. A passport records where it came from, what it contains, how it was made, and what can happen to it next.

READ THE DISTINCTION
07INDUSTRIES08 INDUSTRIAL CONTEXTS

ONE SYSTEM.
Many industries.

01 / 08FIBRE / DYE / GARMENT / RESALE
08 / MANIFESTOPERSISTENCE / IDENTITY / FUTURE

THE FUTURE IS NOT

ONLY DIGITAL.

IT IS TRACEABLE.

PRODUCT IDENTITY SHOULD OUTLIVE THE SALE.

Products should not lose their identities when they leave the factory. Their source, materials, impact, ownership, and future should remain connected.

09DPP INTELLIGENCEPROVIDERS / DEADLINES / SOURCES
MARKET + REGULATION / LIVING RECORDS

TRACK THE MARKET.
Track the rules.

Follow the companies building the passport layer and the dates shaping implementation. Every intelligence record links back to a public source and distinguishes binding requirements from indicative timelines.

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10FIELD NOTESOCCASIONAL / NO NOISE

FOLLOW THE
SOURCE.

Field Notes are being prepared. Until the first dispatch, follow SourcePassport or contact the editorial desk directly.

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