VeChain, Rekord, & AMRC Launch Production-Scale Digital Product Passport Infrastructure for the EU

VeChain and Rekord are entering the next phase of their strategic partnership, building the foundational infrastructure for Europe’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) rollout. By combining VeChain’s enterprise-grade blockchain with Rekord’s intelligent trust layer, the collaboration delivers production-ready solutions designed to meet the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and related mandates.

By mid-December, the joint stack on VeChainThor is expected to handle more than one hundred thousand DPP events per month, placing VeChain and Rekord among the first providers delivering DPP infrastructure at an industrial scale.

Launching in collaboration with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), the partnership will enable manufacturers to move from fragmented supply chains to transparent, compliant, and circular ecosystems powered by public blockchain and real-time operational data.

With large businesses required to meet EU Digital Product Passport mandates from 2026, the timing is critical. ESPR is arriving alongside other major regulations, including the EU Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR), the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Together, they are making lifecycle traceability a core condition for accessing the market across twenty-seven member states.

VeChain’s advanced technical infrastructure makes its blockchain a natural fit for enterprise-grade DPPs, built for scale, sustainability, and long-term regulatory readiness. DPPs build on VeChain’s established role in supply chain transparency and extend it into integrated sustainability reporting for one of the world’s most advanced economic regions.

What comes next is the tokenization and digitization of products entering the European Union to comply with real regulatory needs — a vision we have been building on since launch — the true embodiment of Real-World Assets (RWAs), driving actual value on-chain.

Regulatory Calls for Transparency

Following the introduction of the ESPR in Europe, the continent is shaking up how products and goods are manufactured. In this new paradigm, sustainability, recycling, and the circular economy sit at the core. ESPR states that products should be as sustainable as possible, including repairs and ultimately, recycling.

Critical to this mission is the Digital Product Passport (DPP) — a digital record that tracks the lifecycle of products, including sourcing and production. Public blockchains are perfectly suited to deliver on the needs of DPPs, being uniquely able to record and imbue immutable trust and transparency across data trails.

Mandatory DPP rollout in the EU begins for large enterprises in 2026, with a phased rollout to other sectors and sizes of business continuing to 2030. This makes DPP technology an integral aspect of European commerce, creating a tremendous market opportunity for leaders who can drive scale and adoption early in its rollout.

“Despite the urgency, most manufacturers are still in planning or pilot mode”. Rekord said. “Digital Product Passport initiatives and roadmaps significantly outnumber the production-ready systems that will be live before the first enforcement dates. Our collaboration with VeChain and the AMRC is focused on closing that readiness gap by delivering an industrial-scale stack that can be deployed in factories today.”

Rekord, the AMRC, and VeChainThor

Rekord has built its DPP platform in close collaboration with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), one of the world’s leading hubs for industry-focused manufacturing research and development.

The AMRC is part of the UK’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult and works with global giants such as Boeing and Rolls-Royce alongside a broad network of partners across aerospace, automotive, energy, and medical devices. For more than twenty years,the AMRC has combined cutting-edge research with real factory environments and trained the next generation of manufacturing professionals through the AMRC Training Centre.

“Digital Product Passports are rapidly moving from concept to mandate in the European Union,” said a spokesperson for the AMRC. “Working with Rekord, we see one of the first stacks that can realistically meet ESPR and DPP requirements at industrial scale, using real-time data instead of PowerPoint slides.”

VeChain brings a decade of real-world delivery to this collaboration, with organizations such as Walmart and Lululemon China having used VeChain’s technology for data provenance, tracking, authentication, and evidencing of sustainability claims across global supply chains. With a battle-tested Layer 1, mature tooling, and deep experience working alongside both industry and academia, VeChain is the logical fit for DPPs and the natural home for scaling real-world uses of blockchain applications.

VeChain Uniquely Positioned for Mass Adoption

VeChain’s underlying infrastructure brings real weight to this partnership. The VeChainThor blockchain provides an energy-efficient, enterprise-grade network that anchors proofs, secures records, and makes every passport instantly verifiable for partners and regulators.

Rekord’s trust layer sits on top of this infrastructure, turning raw data into privacy-preserving proofs that can be verified without exposing proprietary information. AI services analyze dynamic inputs such as IoT signals, satellite imagery, and ERP events, while VeChainThor provides logic-based, on-chain execution. AI is probabilistic, blockchain is execution, and together they create mathematically provable records that regulators, auditors, and markets can trust.

With Rekord building on the VeChainThor stack, organizations can issue and manage DPPs through familiar interfaces and APIs. Passports connect to product identifiers such as QR codes, NFC, or RFID, with a simple scan revealing a product’s verified story. The same digital fabric can support EU-focused compliance, sustainability reporting, carbon data, repair and take back schemes, resale flows, and audit-ready transparency across the full product lifecycle.

VeChain’s infrastructure is purpose-built for this kind of scale. Its two-token model separates the value token VET from the gas token VTHO, keeping operating costs predictable and suitable for high-volume enterprise use. Native features such as clauses and multitask transactions are designed to handle the high-throughput events that supply chains generate. An API first, developer-friendly design allows teams to integrate VeChain without disrupting legacy systems.

As governments and global brands move toward full visibility across product lifecycles, VeChain and Rekord offer technology designed to meet that demand at the exact moment it becomes mandatory. Together with the AMRC, they turn verified transparency into core infrastructure for the real-world economy and create the missing bridge between real-world product data and real-world assets.

About VeChain

VeChain, founded in 2015, is a purpose-built Layer 1 public blockchain for real-world impact. It combines enterprise-grade infrastructure, a dual token model, and predictable transaction costs to support applications in supply chain transparency, tokenization, and sustainability. With over 5 million users and more than 350 applications built on VeChainThor, global brands and builders use VeChain to anchor verifiable data, unlock circular business models, and bring Web3 to everyday users.

For more information, visit https://vechain.org.

About Rekord

Rekord is the Trust Layer for Real World Assets. Its mission is to make data verifiable, interoperable, and trusted across industries, turning any log, even,t or document into tamper-proof, audit-ready evidence. Rekord provides a production-ready platform used for automation, traceability, and sustainability solutions, establishing the standard for verifiable enterprise data at scale.

For more information, visit https://rekord.io.

About the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)

The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) is a world-leading cluster for research, innovation and training. Part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult network, it has almost 100 industrial partners and works with manufacturing companies of all sizes from across the globe to deliver cutting-edge products and processes, and train new talent and skills. It’s driving sustainable manufacturing technologies for net zero, creating the vital step-changes needed in the low-carbon transition to help businesses increase economic performance, boost productivity and sharpen their competitive edge.

For more information, visit www.amrc.co.uk.

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