Steel & Iron Producers: Miss This 2026 Deadline and You Could Lose Access to the EU Market

_{Published: April 2025}

_{Estimated reading time: 5 min}

Table of Contents

1. The Clock Is Ticking: What Happens in 2026
2. What is ESPR and Why Should Steel & Iron Care?
3. What’s a Digital Product Passport (DPP)?
4. How Will This Impact Your Business?
5. Your 5-Step Action Plan to Get Ready
6. How Fluxy.One Can Help
7. Final Call: Book Your DPP Readiness Review

⏳ The Clock Is Ticking: What Happens in 2026

Starting January 2026, the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR 2024/1781) will mandate Digital Product Passports (DPPs) for iron, steel, and related categories. This is confirmed in the official 2025 - 2030 Working Plan, which places these materials among the first categories in scope.

❗ Delaying action could mean falling behind — or losing access to high-value EU contracts.

What is ESPR and Why Should Steel & Iron Care?

The ESPR is the EU’s most ambitious sustainability regulation yet. It demands full product transparency, circularity, and environmental accountability — enforced via Digital Product Passports.

For steel & iron producers, this means:

• Full traceability of inputs and emissions
• Lifecycle data must be machine-readable
• Only ESPR-compliant producers will remain eligible for major buyers and public procurement

What’s a Digital Product Passport (DPP)?

A DPP is a dynamic, scannable digital file tied to every product — not a document, but a data passport.

It includes:

• Product serialization and traceability
• ESG and circular economy indicators
• Supply chain and end-of-life information
• Multilingual output in GS1 Digital Link and JSON-LD
• Schema.org-based markup for maximum compatibility and reusability

How Will This Impact Your Business?

If you're not DPP-ready by 2026, here’s what you risk:

• ❌ Disqualification from green public tenders
• ❌ Buyer rejection due to non-compliance
• ❌ Reputational damage and delays in export approval

But there’s a competitive upside:

• ✅ Faster access to regulated markets
• ✅ Stronger ESG positioning for investors and clients
• ✅ More resilient and data-rich supply chains

Your 5-Step Action Plan to Get Ready

1. Understand ESPR Article 9 & Annex III – these define your data duties
2. Audit your current data – what’s missing? What’s verifiable?
3. Digitize your compliance – no more PDFs; go machine-readable
4. Deploy a DPP system – integrate with your ERP or workflows
5. Educate your teams – align sustainability, compliance, and sales

Not sure how your process stacks up? We offer free DPP readiness reviews — no commitment needed.

🚀 How Fluxy.One Can Help

Fluxy.One is your fast track to full DPP compliance — without the bureaucracy.

We offer:

• Built for GS1 standards, JSON-LD, and Schema.org
• Integrated with a decentralized Resolver Network for online data exchange
• Live DPP generation from ERP/CSV/API
• Templates for ESG, CEAP, and SCIP data
• Multilingual support, GDPR-ready infrastructure

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Final Call: Book Your DPP Readiness Review

You don’t have time to delay — and you don’t have to figure this out alone.

✔️ We’ll assess your data
✔️ Identify gaps and risks
✔️ Help you build a clear action roadmap

📩 Book your DPP Readiness Review → info@fluxy.one
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