DPP4CD: Digital Product Passports for Circular Denim
October 2025 to September 2027
Publicly funded research
Saxion leads a two-year applied research project that tests a Digital Product Passport across a working denim supply chain, from fibre to finished jeans. MUD Jeans is the pilot company.
What the project tests
Whether one passport holds when its data comes from several companies along a denim chain, from fibre to finished jeans and back into recycling, each working in its own system.
Material origin
Where the fibre came from, including recycled content and its source.
Production process
Each step the material passed through, and who carried it out.
Environmental impact
The calculated impact of making the jeans.
Repair and recycling
What can be done with the jeans once the first owner is finished with them.
The consortium
Funding
The national call on Digital Product Passports opened in December 2024. Seven projects were selected.
| Saxion University of Applied Sciences | Lead, research |
| Hogeschool van Amsterdam | Research |
| MUD Jeans | Pilot company |
| tex.tracer | Industry partner |
| Tejidos Royo | Industry partner |
| bAwear | Industry partner |
| GS1 Netherlands | Industry body |
| Denim Deal | Industry body, dissemination |
| MODINT | Dissemination |
| EuFSI | Dissemination |