File 0203Updated 2026-07-26Owns DPP software for used textiles
DPP software for used textiles that never carried a tag.
Every passport platform on the market distributes data a brand already holds about new, tagged products. None of them serves the material already in circulation. TexFile originates the record for those items from the documentation sewn into them, and projects it into the Digital Product Passport format.
§For brands and retailersThe passport assumes data that was never recorded
ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, entered into force on 18 July 2024. The central EU registry is live from 19 July 2026 and the delegated act that makes the passport binding for textiles is expected in 2027. A passport is per item, and for a garment made before any of this it describes data that nobody ever wrote down.
That is not a small residue. It is most of the material a sorting facility handles, most of the stock sitting in a returns warehouse, and every item a second hand or resale programme takes back. The passport format is ready for it. The data is not.
What the export produces
- A record before a passport
- Fields are assembled against the EU Digital Product Passport data model from the first reading, so an export is a projection of the record rather than a migration into a new shape.
- Confidence that travels with the value
- Each field carries a calibrated confidence, so a passport built from the record can state how sure a value is instead of asserting every value equally.
- Provenance under every claim
- PROV-O links each field to the document and the reading that produced it, which is what makes a published passport answerable when somebody asks where a number came from.
- Identifiers that resolve
- GS1 identifiers with Digital Link resolution, so an item can be pointed at from outside our systems and reach the same record.
- Validation before publication
- SHACL shapes are checked before a record is sealed. A payload that does not conform is never emitted.
How it lands in an existing operation
Read where the item is handled
At the sorting line, the returns desk or the intake bench: wherever the garment is already in someone's hands, its labels are captured and read.
Reconcile into a record
Label text is normalized into controlled EU vocabularies and resolved into fields, each one scored and each one keeping its source.
Decide the tiers
A passport publishes some fields and restricts others. Provenance is what lets an operator decide which is which, per field, with a defensible reason.
Emit and resolve
The payload leaves as a passport, as custody events, or through the API, and the identifier resolves back to the record for anyone entitled to see it.
| Question the passport asks | New tagged garment | Used untagged garment |
|---|---|---|
| Who states the composition | The brand, from its own product data. | The garment itself, read from the sewn in label and scored. |
| Where does the identifier come from | Assigned at manufacture and printed on the product. | Assigned when the record is originated, resolvable through GS1 Digital Link. |
| What supports a published value | The brand's internal system of record. | The source document, the reading, and the confidence at the time of reading. |
| Who can produce a passport for it | The brand side platform the brand already runs. | Whoever handles the item next, from the evidence the item carries. |
The two columns are not in competition. A brand side platform holds what the brand knows; this originates what nobody has recorded, and hands it over through the same open standards. The layer sits below them.
What the payloads conform to
- EU Digital Product Passport
- The record is built to the passport data model, so the export is a projection and not a translation.
- GS1 Digital Link
- Resolvable identifiers, the way the rest of the supply chain already resolves them.
- EPCIS
- Custody events in the standard vocabulary, so a chain reads the same to every party in it.
- SHACL
- Shape validation before sealing. A record that does not conform does not ship.
- PROV-O
- Provenance as a property of the data rather than a note beside it.
Common questions
What is DPP software for used textiles?
Software that produces Digital Product Passport data for garments that carry no digital identifier. It originates the record from the documentation the item already holds, its composition, care, origin and brand labels, rather than distributing product data a brand recorded at manufacture, which for used stock does not exist.
How does it differ from a brand side passport platform?
A brand side platform distributes data the brand already holds about new, tagged products. This originates data for items nothing has recorded, at the point where they are handled, and hands the result over through open standards. The two connect rather than compete: one is the source, the other the channel.
Can a passport state how reliable a value is?
Yes, when the record behind it carries the score. Every field TexFile writes has a calibrated confidence and a link to the source document, so a passport can publish a value together with the basis for it instead of presenting every field as equally certain.
When does the textile passport become binding?
The ESPR registry is live from 19 July 2026, and the delegated act setting the textile requirements is expected in 2027. Records built to the passport data model now are what turn that date into an export rather than a project.
Sources
File 0101Published 2026-07-26Updated 2026-07-27≈ 11 min read
What a textile Digital Product Passport holds
The ESPR rules, the dates, the data model and the carrier standards behind a textile Digital Product Passport, and the stock they leave uncovered.
File 0110Published 2026-07-27≈ 6 min read
The ESPR textile delegated act, tracked
Where the ESPR delegated act for textiles stands: what is already binding, what is expected in 2027, what the act will fix, and what to watch. Dated.
File 0108Published 2026-07-27≈ 6 min read
Who sees what in a textile DPP
The public and restricted tiers of the textile DPP: what anyone can read by scanning, who can access the rest, and how the access split is enforced.
File 0109Published 2026-07-27≈ 6 min read
The textile DPP for sorters and for brands
One regime, two positions: what the textile DPP obliges brands to do, what it assumes about sorters and recyclers, and where the two must meet.
File 0106Published 2026-07-26≈ 6 min read
Chain of custody for recycled textiles
Segregation and mass balance both assume a producer at the top of the chain. Post consumer textiles do not have one. What replaces the certificate.
File 0104Published 2026-07-26≈ 7 min read
The EPR and ESPR timeline for textile sorters
Five EU and German instruments, their dates, and what each one actually changes for a sorter, a recycler or a producer responsibility scheme.
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Tell us what the items are and where they are handled. We will show a passport payload built from their own labels, field by field, with the confidence attached.
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