Real-world implementation stories from companies using Digital Product Passports. Learn from their timelines, costs, challenges, and measurable business outcomes.
Real-world compliance case studies: how companies create digital product passports, publish trust centers, and pass buyer audits.
Case studies are usually about customers. This one is about us, and that's why we can publish it without asking anyone's permission: Sustalium's own compliance runs on Sustalium. Our public Trust Hex is live at the same address our customers use, holding the same kind of assets we sell. Seven of them, from GDPR to the EU AI Act to our accessibility statement.
Every compliance manager has heard the objection: "We've never had a problem before. Why invest now?" It's the most expensive sentence in business. Because when compliance fails, it doesn't fail incrementally. It fails catastrophically. A single missing certificate, an overlooked test report, an expired supplier declaration — these are not paperwork problems. They are existential threats.
This isn't theoretical. Here are the real stories — across industries, across continents — of what happens when compliance goes wrong. Not abstract regulatory fines. Real companies, real people, real consequences.
When Portuguese sustainable textiles company Mad Fibers needed to prepare for EU Digital Product Passport requirements, they faced a common SME challenge: limited resources, tight deadlines, and complex compliance needs.
This is the story of how Mad Fibers went from zero to live, EU-compliant DPPs in under 30 minutes using Sustalium's product-agnostic platform.