The products will soon be required to have a Digital Product Passport (PDP) that provides information about their durability and reparability, whether it contains recycled materials and in what quantity, or the availability of spare parts. The objective of the PDP is to enable consumers and businesses to make informed purchasing decisions, facilitate repair and recycling, and improve transparency around environmental impacts throughout the product life cycle. It should also allow authorities to conduct controls and verifications more efficiently.

The habitat sector, which encompasses furniture, home textiles, lighting, ceramics, etc., aims to anticipate this legislative requirement. It does so through the HABITPASS project, where a PDP solution will be researched and developed to cover a series of necessary and high-value services and applications for the habitat sector and its value chain. The solution should be easily adaptable and scalable to include more products and companies within the sector.

The project is coordinated by the AMBIT cluster, and the other partners include the TIC Cluster Asturias, the manufacturing companies in the habitat sector ABSOTEC, NOMON, and ROLS, the design studio Lúcid, the technology providers I4life and KOINSYS, and inèdit. For the consortium, “the PDP represents an excellent business opportunity, a digital transition, and an alignment with a more circular economy for the habitat sector”.

The HABITPASS project is led by AMBIT, the cluster for the contract-hospitality sector, in collaboration with the TIC Cluster Asturias and the companies Absotec, Nomon, Rols, inèdit, Lúcid, i4life, and Koinsys. The project is co-financed by the Program for Innovative Business Clusters (AEI) of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and Tourism, with the support of the European Union through the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan – Next Generation EU.