Product passports for steel, aluminium and metals
Metal data lives at batch level. The platform keeps it there and makes it available down the chain.
Data
The data that matters
- Heat or batch number
- Alloy and grade
- Recycled content
- Carbon footprint per tonne
- Production route and plant
- Certificates and test results by reference
Challenge
The challenge: every batch is different
In metals, the important figures change from one heat to the next. Recycled content and carbon footprint depend on the scrap share, the energy mix and the production route. A statement at product-type level says little.
At the same time, customers in construction, automotive and machinery ask for exactly these figures for their own reporting and their own future passports. Processors stand in the middle: they receive data from mills and smelters and must pass it on, together with their own.
Process
Use case: an aluminium extruder
A processor wants to give customers recycled-content and footprint data per delivery.
Set the level
We define which fields are fixed per profile type and which change per batch.
Obtain upstream data
The billet supplier is asked for recycled content and footprint values.
Add own processing data
Your own plant and process data complete the record.
Share
The published page is referenced on delivery documents by QR code.
Functions
How the platform supports metals
- A metals field set, configured with you
- Fields for grade, production route, recycled content and footprint, with batch as the leading level.
- Requests to mills and smelters
- Upstream producers provide batch-related values through a link.
- Controlled disclosure
- Decide per field what customers, the public or only authorities may see.
Benefits
What you gain
- One answer to recurring customer questionnaires
- Traceable origin of each figure
- A basis for the passport once the act for your material is adopted
Legal status
Legal basis
- Legal basis
- Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781; delegated acts for iron and steel and for aluminium pending
- Status
- No passport obligation applies yet. The Commission’s working plan names 2026 as the indicative date for iron and steel and 2027 for aluminium.
- Platform
- Configured per project
Today the application keeps one record per product. Records per batch at production volume need an interface to your production systems and are scoped in a project. The platform does not calculate carbon footprints; it stores and publishes the values you provide.
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Model, batch and item level
Three audiences per field
Versioned publication
Hosted in Germany