It is tempting to treat the Digital Product Passport as a textiles problem, because textiles is where the first deadline lands. That would be a mistake. The ESPR was designed from the outset to expand across the economy, and its working plan already maps a decade of new categories. If you make physical products for the EU, the question isn't whether the passport reaches you — it's when.
The ESPR working plan
The Commission updates a priority list on a roughly three-year cycle, adding categories as it goes. The 2025–2030 plan already names a sweep of final products and industrial materials, and the framework explicitly anticipates covering nearly all physical goods over time. Each new category arrives through its own delegated act, with its own data requirements — but all under the same passport model.
Furniture and mattresses: the natural next step
For many companies the most relevant categories after textiles are furniture (expected around 2028) and mattresses (around 2029). They're worth watching closely because they share textiles' shape: composition, origin, durability and recyclability data, sold largely by small and mid-sized manufacturers. A company that solves the passport for textiles has, in effect, solved most of it for furniture too.
Electronics, steel and construction
Other tracks are moving in parallel. Electronics is covered through a mix of ESPR and existing energy-labelling rules. Iron, steel and aluminium are treated as industrial materials, where passports emphasise lifecycle carbon and recycled content. Construction products fall under their own revised regulation. The data differs, but the underlying obligation — a verified, structured, accessible record — does not.
Why one platform, not many tools
Buying a single-industry passport tool today is buying something you'll have to replace the moment the regulation reaches your next product line.
This is the strategic case for a general platform. The categories don't need different software — they need different schemas: definitions of the required fields, certifications and indicators for each one. Build the engine once, and adding a category becomes a configuration task, not a new system.
That's the principle Luxima is built on. We start with textiles because that's where the deadline is, but the platform is industry-agnostic by design. As your obligations widen — to furniture, to electronics, to whatever you make next — you add a category, not a vendor. One platform, one login, every passport.