A DMPP ALONG VALUE/PRODUCTION CHAINS OF SANDWICH PANELS: MASTERING THE REGULATION JUNGLE

A DMPP ALONG VALUE/PRODUCTION CHAINS OF SANDWICH PANELS: MASTERING THE REGULATION JUNGLE DigiPass project has been funded by the European Commission for the programme HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, Grant Agreement No 101138510 WIKKI LIMITED, UK participant in Horizon Europe Project DigiPass, is supported by UKRI grant number 10100819: DigiPass Advancements for Metal Buildings CONGRESS of the European Association for Panels and Profils Natalia Konchakova (Hereon) and Peter Klein (Fraunhofer ITWM) Prague, Oktober 16, 2025 ECODESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS REGULATION (ESPR) The ESPR introduces a Digital Product Passport (DPP) to support products’ sustainability, promote circularity and strengthen legal compliance. Delegated Acts for specific topics announced. •Preliminary list of DPP content: ✓Product’s technical performance ✓Materials and their origins ✓Repair activities ✓Recycling capabilities ✓Lifecycle environmental impacts 2025: first working plan priorities iron and steel, aluminium, textiles, furniture (including mattresses), tyres, detergents, paints, lubricants, chemicals, energy related products, other electronics Know Your Products! https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32024R1781&qid=1719580391746 CROSS-ENABLING TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES A Competitiveness Compass for the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) recognized as a key enabler of digitalization across the EU and beyond. ✓Digitalization ✓Implementing EU legislation ✓Use of digital tools and AI ✓Full cross-border interoperability ✓Digital formats based on standardised data Know Your Products! https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/10017eb1-4722-4333-add2-e0ed18105a34_en https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32024R1781&qid=1719580391746 Know Your Products! How to handle that kind of regulation's pressure on industries? EU DIRECTIVE, REGULATIONS, FRAMEWORKS … 4 SSbD Safe and Sustainable by Design FRAMEWORK Supply Chain Law Directive DPP Digital Product Passport (ESPR) REACH Regulation PFAS Regulation CRM Act Critical Raw Materials Act CONSORTIUM 5 Know Your Products! Start: 01.04.2024, 36 month Budget: 1 999 300 € (lumpsum) Coordination: Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon DigiPass-CSA: Overview | LinkedIn https://ms.hereon.de/digipass/ HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-39 (CSA) Coordination and knowledge sharing across materials development communities Fostering digitalization of innovative advanced materials and co-innovation processes in circular ecosystems DigiPass – Know Your Products by DIGITALIZATION OF INNOVATIVE ADVANCED MATERIALS Strengthening the digital maturity: pick materials communities up where they are Harmonizing materials data sources and infrastructures Ensuring Interoperability and standardization of materials data Enabling Digital Materials and Product Passport Digital Product Passport: legislation/ regulation → openly accessible Digital Material Passport: finetuned access rights → used in co-innovation processes 6 Know Your Products! DigiPass KOM, APRIL 2024 Know Your Products! COM(2024) 98 final “Advanced Materials”,27.02.2024 Requests by DG RTD Education/ Training not in the scope of DigiPass Align the Workplan with the policy COM on AdMa Further small adaptations of the DigiPass Workplan Energy Mobility Construction Electronics IAM renewable energy x x Advanced Composites x x Prepainted metal x x x (70%) x Health&Safety Nanomaterials x x x x DigiPass: INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP Know Your Products! COM(2024) 98 final priority markets DigiPass Demonstrator Cases: value chains DigiPass DMPP towards priority markets ! MEASURES IN COM RELATED TO DigiPass Know Your Products! One priority of IAM4EU DigiPass Scope: from raw/recycled to IAMs to intermediate products: take into account circularity as KPIs. Interoperability is Key! 9 EoL R-strategies Innovative Advanced Materials Intermediate Products Use phase of products Product Assembly Raw/ recycled materials BATTERY REGULATION/ PASSPORT Know Your Products! DigiPass CSA 17 DPP4EU, BRUSSELS (JUNE 2025) 7 Technical Sessions, a Poster Session, a Panel Discussion on the DPP and material digitalization future 55 contributions from EUand nationalfunded projects and initiatives! 6 Keynote talks from 4 European Commission DGs (GROW, ENVI, CONNECT, RTD) as well as the Joint Research Center (JRC) 11 participants from the European Commission and HaDEA representatives from CEN/CENELEC JTC-24 Over 900 experts attended the meeting during 3 days (both online and in person) Sectors Represented: Industry: more than 50% of attendees Academia: about 20% of attendees Civil Society / NGO: about 20% of attendees Government / Public Sector: about 5% DigiPass, CIRPASS-2, THESEUS PRECURSOR OF DigiPass: VIPCOAT 18 VIPCOAT is one out of three EU projects on Open Innovation Platforms, all projects started in 2021 and concluded in end of 2024spring 2025 All OIP Platform projects are part of the OITB Initiative Strong collaboration of the three projects VIPCOAT: OPEN INNOVATION ALONG VALUE/ PRODUCTION CHAINS Specifications/requirements •downstream: technological as quality KPIs •upstream: technological design options and business KPIs (pricing) Collaborative Decision Making Along value/production chains open new “degrees of freedom” → overall improvements DIGITAL PLATFORM SUPPORTING OPEN INNOVATION: STANDARDIZED WORKFLOWS 2 0 Workflow at each company structured as standard BPMN processes VIPCOAT OIP: repeatable innovation workflows in a B2B2B environment VIPCOAT result: New Cr-VI free paint at TRL 6, Patent strategy of (some) VIPCOAT partners. New kind of Intermediate Know Your Products! 21 PRODUCTION IN A CIRCULAR ECONOMY DPP as instrument to drive the transition towards a circular economy Digitalized collaboration along value chains - a must ! High requirements on data sustainability and accessibility !! Raw material Material Innovation & SSbD Recycling Waste disposal Second life DigiPass IAM4EU Intermediate Production process innovation Intermediate Product Product Use Phase End of Life Know Your Products! 22 INNOVATION AND A CIRCULAR ECONOMY SSbD: An innovation framework including stage-gate transitions. Implementation as an innovation process. Advocate for collaborative decisions on chemicals and materials in stage-gate transitions, regulatory sandboxes. DigiPass idea Raw material Material Innovation & SSbD Recycling Waste disposal Second life DigiPass IAM4EU Intermediate Production process innovation Intermediate Product Product Use Phase End of Life DigiPass PLATFORM –COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR DPP 23 Know Your Products! https://digital-passport.io How to generate and utilize the forms requesting data from the user? ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS Industrial Association ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES Industrial Innovation Hub HEALTH & SAFETY OF ADVANCED NANOMATERIALS Innovation in Research and Engineering Solutions INNOVATIONS IN PRE-PAINTED METALS SUPPLY CHAIN Industrial Association CASE 4CASE 2 CASE 3CASE 1 24 DEMONSTRATORS 25 DigiPass DEMONSTRATION CASE 4 Innovations in Pre-painted Metals Supply Chain Coil coating has a long, multi-company supply chain - from resin supplier through to the building owner. The industry must ensure efficient transfer of chemical information between various parties. Today, this is still a manual and paper-based process in many cases. DigiPass PLATFORM –CALL FOR ADDITIONAL DEMONSTRATION CASES 33 Know Your Products! https://digital-passport.io Beginning of December – publication of an Open call and conditions December`25 – webinar “How to apply and what is expected?” January 15, 2026 – application deadline January 31, 2026 – selection of 3 demo cases and notification of the results March 31, 2026 – negotiation and NDA with the applicants April-December 2026 – implementation of the demo cases March 2027 - reporting Funded by the European Union Know Your Products! DigiPass project has been funded by the European Commission for the programme HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, GA No 101138510 WIKKI LIMITED, UK participant in Horizon Europe Project DigiPass, is supported by UKRI grant number 10100819: DigiPass VIPCOAT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, GA No 952903 THANK YOU! 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