Digital product passport
DPP-ready, before it's mandatory.
The EU is about to ask every garment sold into Europe to carry a digital record of what it is and where it came from. Most accessories suppliers aren't thinking about it yet. We are.
The regulation
What the rule actually asks for.
The EU's Ecodesign for sustainable products regulation is bringing the digital product passport to textiles and apparel. A delegated act specific to textiles is expected around 2027, with mandatory compliance realistically landing in 2028, and it will apply to every apparel and footwear product sold into the EU, wherever it was made.
That means every label, tag and packaging item in your supply chain may soon need to carry a persistent, machine-readable identifier pointing at verified product data: material origin, composition, recyclability and compliance history.
As it stands today:
The regulationEcodesign for sustainable products (ESPR)
Textile Delegated ActExpected around 2027
Mandatory complianceRealistically 2028
Who it coversAnything apparel or footwear sold into the EU
What carries itLabels, tags and packaging
What a digital passportmeans to us
To us it isn't paperwork. It's a code that has to sit on a physical trim and still resolve years after the garment left the floor.
So the data has to come off the order, not out of a form, composition, origin and certification as they actually ran on the line.
For a client it should feel like nothing. You order the trim you always ordered, and it turns up able to carry the record.
Which makes the label the carrier. The woven tab, the hang tag, the polybag: the parts we already make are the parts the record hangs off.
We already track order status, production stage and delivery end to end. The passport is that record turned outward instead of inward.
And being early is the whole point. When the act lands we want the awkward questions already answered, not a scramble to answer them.
Digital-ready tagging
The carrier, built in from the start.
QR and NFC-enabled labels and hang tags, engineered to carry DPP data from day one rather than being retrofitted later.
CarriersWoven and printed labels, hang tags, packaging
What they holdA persistent, machine-readable identifier
How it's appliedEngineered into the trim, not stuck on afterwards
StatusIn development across our label lines
Traceability infrastructure
The data already exists.
Order status, production stage and delivery are already tracked end to end in Tailorbird, the same foundation DPP compliance will need.
Order statusTracked digitally, end to end
Production stageRecorded as the order runs
DeliveryLogged against the order it belongs to
StatusAlready in place
Compliance partnership
Ready before the deadline, not after it.
We're building the systems now, so when the Textile Delegated Act lands our retail and factory partners are already positioned.
End-to-end traceabilityAlready in place
DPP-ready taggingIn development
EU Ecodesign (ESPR)Tracking
Textile Delegated ActWatching the drafts
Partner readinessBriefed as the rules firm up
The catalogue
The products this runs on.
The passport is not a separate product. It rides on the trims you already order from us.
See the label range- QR & NFC-enabled tags
- Security & anti-theft tags
- DPP-ready woven and printed labels
- Hang tags & price tickets
“While the industry waits for the final regulation, we're building the infrastructure to make digital product passport compliance simple for our partners, not a last-minute scramble.”
