TL;DR:
Orobo provides compliance-grade infrastructure for issuing and validating digital product passports across borders. build on $IOTACreate a shared, auditable layer of trust to help manufacturers meet evolving international regulations, ensure transparency and verifiability of product data, and enable global trade.
Battery cells manufactured in China. It will be assembled into modules in Singapore. Installed on electric buses in the Netherlands. At the end of their useful life, they are recycled in specialized facilities in Europe. 4 different actors. 3 continents. 1 product. And until recently, there was no reliable way to verify the data connecting them.
That’s the challenge Digital Product Passport is designed to solve. DPP is Verifiable digital records attached to physical productsobtain important data about its materials, origin, environmental impact, and life cycle. This data plays a key role in tracking the different parts that go into a product, its journey from production to recycling, and how the parts are extracted and reused. This is not a label or PDF that can be easily misplaced, tampered with, or lost along the way. It is a machine-readable record that can be independently checked by anyone with appropriate authority within the supply chain.
The transition to DPP is driven by regulation on two fronts. In Europe, Ecodesign Regulation for Sustainable Products (ESPR), battery regulations and construction product regulations We need product lifecycle data across priority sectors, including batteries. In China, National DPP Roadmap for Textile Industry The one to be announced in April 2025 is shaped in line with international requirements, including ESPR. These regulatory developments emphasize that transparency is no longer voluntary. Verified product data is becoming a condition of trade for manufacturers seeking access to key global markets.
Voluntary transparency alone is not the solution. What we’re talking about is mandatory and verifiable product data. oroboThe Singapore-based Sustainability Data Clearinghouse $IOTA Provides a compliant infrastructure for issuing and validating DPPs across borders.
Orobo: From traceability to compliance infrastructure
Orobo started as a traceability-focused solution and has since evolved into a compliance-focused DPP platform in line with new global regulations. It focuses on high-compliance, high-volume use cases where auditability and interoperability across multiple parties and jurisdictions are non-negotiable.
The platform enables manufacturers to issue and manage digital product passports across their supply chain, focusing on the following industries with the most pressing regulatory requirements: batteries, textiles, and construction materials. Participation in accelerates development $IOTA‘s Business Innovation Program has supported technical iterations and real-world deployments over the past year.
Evidence: Using DPP in the real world
Orobo’s platform is already deployed in multiple industries and geographies, and fits exactly into the cross-border, multi-actor use cases targeted by the new DPP regulations.
- Battery passport for electric buses. Our supply chain spans from OEM manufacturers in China to coordination at our headquarters in Singapore, expansion to the European market via public transport in the Netherlands and recycling.
- Reuse properties: Digital passport for Dutch steel building materials.
- move wave: DPP supports consumer transparency and a product take-back system for sustainably made wooden sunglasses
- metapharm: Cocoa bean traceability from farm-level production to downstream distribution supports export preparation
These cases have something in common. That means verifiable, structured data needs to be attached to physical products as they move through complex value chains.
Why is neutrality important?
Independence of the infrastructure provider is a prerequisite for systems built on third-party validation. Orobo participates in the European Commission’s working group on DPP standards and serves as a knowledge partner for the Intergovernmental Committee on Digital Product Passports for Asia. This high-level positioning underlines Orobo’s neutrality. Orobo does not own or control the product data, but provides an infrastructure that allows all participants to independently verify the data.
In a fragmented global landscape where manufacturers, regulators and downstream partners operate across different jurisdictions and with different interests, independence prevents a single entity from unilaterally controlling or changing product records. Trust in the system depends on the system.
structure
Orobo uses $IOTA Public blockchain infrastructure as a validation layer supporting the DPP platform. The hash is $IOTA Creating a ledger prevents tampering and allows for independent verification by authorized parties without requiring pre-existing trust relationships between participants.
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This is especially important in cross-border supply chains where manufacturers, recyclers, customs and regulators may have no previous commercial relationship but need to rely on shared product data.
What’s next for Orobo and DPP?
Orobo is positioned as the infrastructure for products that need to meet regulatory requirements to access international markets, and DPP is integrated into trade and supply chain operations. In the short term, this means deepening its presence in the battery and textile sectors, which face the most immediate regulatory pressures in both Europe and China. On the European side, Orobo is working with upcoming certification and registry initiatives that will define standards for certified DPP providers.
Orobo founder Sann Carrière said: “Digital product passports will become the foundational layer of global trade. At Orobo, we are building an infrastructure that allows product data to move across borders, across systems, and across value chains as seamlessly and reliably as the goods themselves. This change is not just about transparency, but also a move towards verifiable and interoperable data as a condition of market access.”
For the future
Currently, most DPP implementations operate in relative isolation. Passports are issued by one platform and read by a limited number of parties within a specific commercial relationship. As global trade adoption expands and regulatory requirements expand, this siled model will come under pressure. A compelling long-term direction is for product data to be captured and exchanged across interconnected ecosystems. This means multiple actors contribute information at different stages of a product’s lifecycle, improving discovery and interoperability across platforms.
solutions such as twin This refers to a decentralized data environment where the digital record of a product evolves throughout its lifecycle and where that data can potentially support additional services such as incentive mechanisms for recyclers or new models for cross-border coordination.
As regulatory requirements continue to expand globally, the ability to publish, verify and exchange trusted product data will become a foundational capability for international trade, and enabling infrastructure like Orobo will be at the center of that change.
For more information or to start your first DPP, contact Team Orobo at hello@orobo.tech.
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