Product passports for furniture and interior products
Many materials in one product, many suppliers behind it: one record that keeps them together.
Data
The data that matters
- Materials per component: wood, metal, foam, textile, plastics
- Wood species and origin
- Surface treatments and adhesives
- Substances of concern
- Spare parts and repair
- Disassembly and end-of-life instructions
Challenge
The challenge: one product, five material worlds
A chair can contain a steel frame, a foam cushion, a textile cover, plastic glides and a lacquered wooden shell. Each comes from a different supplier with its own way of documenting materials and substances.
Furniture is also long-lived. Information on spare parts and disassembly is needed years after the sale, when the people who knew the product have moved on. A structured record per product is the only reliable memory.
Process
Use case: an office chair programme
A manufacturer documents a chair family with three component suppliers.
Break down the product
The field set mirrors the component groups: frame, mechanism, upholstery, surfaces.
Collect per component
Each supplier is asked for materials and substances of their part.
Add service knowledge
Spare-part and disassembly information is entered by your own service team.
Publish
The passport is published and the code is placed under the seat.
Functions
How the platform supports furniture
- A furniture field set, configured with you
- Fields per component group are set up for your range, including spare parts and disassembly.
- Requests per component supplier
- The foam supplier, the textile supplier and the frame maker each receive their own fields.
- A public page for the long term
- The QR code on the product leads to the current published information, also years later.
- Variants under control
- Product records per model keep the shared data together; variant handling is agreed in the project.
Benefits
What you gain
- Material and substance data per component in one record
- Answers for contract customers who ask for environmental information
- Repair and disassembly information that outlives staff changes
Legal status
Legal basis
- Legal basis
- Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781; delegated act for furniture pending
- Status
- No passport obligation applies yet. The Commission’s working plan names 2028 as the indicative date for furniture and 2029 for mattresses.
- Platform
- Configured per project
The dates above come from a working plan and can change. The field set for furniture is a working assumption until the act is adopted.
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Model, batch and item level
Three audiences per field
Versioned publication
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