Digital Product Passports for Fashion & Textiles

Intro

• Pressure on fashion to prove material origin, production, and end-of-life
• Core pain: Limited visibility into material origins
• Digital Product Passports as the solution

Why traceability is no longer optional in fashion

• ESPR → Digital Product Passports for priority product groups (incl. fashion & textiles)
• CSRD → supply-chain risk, environmental impact, and due diligence
• Voluntary schemes (OEKO-TEX, GRS, RCS, Fairtrade) increasingly demanded
• Hidden assumption: ability to track products from fiber to final piece

The reality today – scattered data and manual work

• Excel sheets in different departments
• PDFs from mills and dye houses
• Certificates in email threads
• PLM/ERP systems that don’t talk

Result:

• No single source of truth
• Weeks of manual work per questionnaire
• High greenwashing risk

How Etmita Passport helps fashion brands

Using landing card copy:

• ❌ Limited visibility into material origins
• ✅ Digital passports with full traceability

Etmita Passport provides a per-SKU Digital Product Passport that links to:

• Fiber composition (e.g. Cotton 95% / Elastane 5%)
• Yarn, fabric, trim suppliers
• Dyeing/finishing stages
• Country of origin + factories

Includes:

• QR code for consumers, buyers, auditors
• Public vs. private data model (consumer vs. auditor view)

Key features for Fashion & Textiles

• Fiber-to-final-piece traceability — single structured passport
• Supplier transparency — mills, factories, logistics + tier/risk
• Material & impact profiles — composition, certifications, carbon, water, durability
• Consumer-facing QR page — simple, branded, showing care + recyclability
• Auditor mode (Private Extended) — HS codes, batch info, certificates, due diligence

Pros and cons of implementing DPP in fashion

Pros

• ✅ Ready for EU DPP (ESPR)
• ✅ Faster retailer/auditor responses
• ✅ Stronger consumer trust (show, don’t tell)
• ✅ Less Excel/email chaos
• ✅ Easier to launch circular services (take-back, resale, repair)

Trade-offs / challenges

• ⚠️ Need supplier buy-in for structured data
• ⚠️ Legacy PLM/ERP integration work
• ⚠️ Internal shift to “data-first” workflows

Example use cases

• EU brand piloting ESPR DPP on 50 SKUs
• Marketplace requiring verified material data to list products
• Sustainability team building CSRD reports from product-level data

Call to action

DPP is becoming a basic requirement for real traceability.

Book a 30-minute walkthrough of Etmita Passport for Fashion & Textiles.