Iron & Steel
EN 10204 Mill Test Certificates Go Digital
The 3.1 certificate is steel's oldest data carrier; the problem is that it is a PDF. A structured, sealed certificate is the core of the batch passport.
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DPP for iron and steel
Quality, scrap ratio, embodied carbon and heat-level traceability for iron and steel — ESPR's first delegated act candidate.
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Iron & Steel
EN 10204 Mill Test Certificates Go Digital
The 3.1 certificate is steel's oldest data carrier; the problem is that it is a PDF. A structured, sealed certificate is the core of the batch passport.
Iron & Steel
Heat-Number Batch Traceability for Metals
Metals have no items, they have heats. The heat number ties analysis to certificate; the challenge is not losing it between the mill and the service centre.
CBAM
CBAM Definitive Period 2026: What Steel Exporters Must Do
The liability sits with the importer, the data burden with the producer. In the definitive period, a producer without verified actual data is priced at default values.
Iron & Steel
Steel DPP Data Fields: Scrap, Route, Carbon
The steel delegated act is not adopted yet, but the core fields are predictable: route, scrap share and carbon per tonne. Build the evidence now.
CBAM
CBAM and the Digital Product Passport
Two different regimes, one data source. Merging CBAM and DPP work halves the cost.
Iron & Steel
The Digital Product Passport for Iron and Steel
Steel is an intermediate product: its data flows into thousands of finished goods. That is why it is first — and why it is hard.
Data Carriers
Data Matrix and Direct Part Marking (DPM)
Where labels do not survive, the code goes into the part itself. The rules of DPM from steel to electronics.