Steel Passports — your CBAM + datasheets, one pipeline
You're already compiling CBAM embedded-emissions data. TracePass reuses it as structured fields in your steel DPP, adds grade / chemistry / mechanicals from the mill datasheet, and publishes a batch-level passport per heat.
Our promise
Compliance-ready in 2–4 weeks, without changing your existing systems.
Who this is for
Steel mills, rerollers, distributors, and downstream converters placing steel coils, sheets, long products, pipes, or wires on the EU market.
How TracePass helps — Iron & Steel
Concrete things TracePass does for this category — not a list of what the regulation requires.
AI suggests composition, mechanical properties and typical grade values from your mill datasheets, each with its source, for you to approve.
CBAM fields (scope 1, scope 2, precursor emissions, grid intensity) as first-class structured data — the same numbers feed your DPP and your quarterly CBAM return.
Heat-number + batch-number lineage built-in, because that's how the industry already tracks.
Inspection-certificate URI field with evidence capture — point at the EN 10168 cert and we keep it attached to every coil passport.
Corporate sustainability-report metrics (recycled scrap %, EAF vs BOF) filled from your existing ESG disclosures.
What's in the Iron & Steel template
84 fields — The fields aren't abstract — here are the groups you'll actually work with:
- Grade + EN designation
- Chemical composition per element
- Mechanical properties (yield, tensile, elongation, hardness)
- Heat + batch number, inspection-cert URI
- CBAM embedded emissions (scope 1 / 2 / precursor)
- Electricity grid intensity, kWh/tonne
- Recycled (scrap) content % + facility type
Questions buyers in this category ask
When will a steel Digital Product Passport be mandatory?
No ESPR delegated act for iron & steel has been adopted yet. The indicative timeline from the ESPR Working Plan (COM(2025) 187 final, CELEX 52025DC0187 — a Commission Communication adopted 16 April 2025, not a binding act) points to a delegated act in 2026; the ~2028 mandatory date comes from the Commission's DPP roadmap (DG GROW, May 2026), consistent with ESPR Art. 4's minimum 18-month transition. Treat those as best-estimate dates; the obligation only becomes firm when the delegated act is formally adopted. Note that CBAM (Regulation (EU) 2023/956) already requires embedded-emissions data for steel imports today — that data is a natural head start for the future DPP.
Can we avoid double data-entry between DPP and our CBAM reports?
That's the point. TracePass stores CBAM fields as structured data on each passport. Export per-batch CBAM contribution for your quarterly return from the same source your DPP reads from.
One passport per coil is a lot. Is there a less granular option?
Passports are per heat or per batch, not per coil — industry practice. Each physical coil carries a QR back to its heat-level passport. Typical throughput: one passport covers 20–40 tonnes.
Can you trace the production route — smelting, rolling, finishing — as EPCIS events?
Yes. Each production step serialises as an EPCIS 2.0 TransformationEvent — smelting, casting, rolling, finishing — using GS1 Core Business Vocabulary where it exists and TracePass-published vocabulary URIs for the steel-specific steps it doesn't cover. The event history is a standards-valid EPCIS 2.0 document, included on every plan, Free included (plans differ by monthly event volume), and advertised on the product's GS1 Digital Link QR. The Capture interface lets mills and processors push events directly; queries in the EPCIS 2.0 query grammar are answered by an EPCIS 2.0 query interface we operate in the EU. Volume meter scales by tier — high-throughput mill operators sit on Scale (1M events/mo) or Pro (10M); Enterprise is unlimited. EPCIS 2.0 is the GS1 standard for supply-chain event traceability.
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