Circularise

03/09/2026

We're taking part in a special session at Circular Economy EXPO in Makuhari on 11 September, on what it takes to move circular data work from proof of concept into implementation.

The frameworks for measuring circularity largely exist now. The Global Circularity Protocol, the Circular Transition Indicators and the digital product passport rules all describe what good looks like. The harder question, and the one this session is built around, is what happens when you apply them across a real supply chain.

What the session will cover:
- Harmonising the GCP with Japan's domestic regulations and digital architecture
- The real bottlenecks in collecting primary data across multi-tier supply chains, and how to protect proprietary data
- How manufacturers turn these standards into more secure supply chains and new revenue

The line-up spans both policy and practice: Filipe Camaño Garcia, who leads the Global Circularity Protocol at WBCSD, Yoshida-san from Japan's Ministry of the Environment, Ishida-san from Toyota's CE Promoting Department, Takagi-san, Partner at Deloitte Tohmatsu, and Ton de Weijer, Deputy CTO at Teijin Holdings Europe. Our co-founder Jordi Robert de Vos joins them on the panel, with Dr Phil Brown moderating.

Jordi, Phil and Nabil will all be in Japan that week. If you're heading to Smart Energy Week, or you're in Tokyo around those dates, we'd be glad to talk, particularly if you're working through supplier data collection in automotive, chemicals or textiles.

If you're going to be at the exhibition, you can add the session to your schedule here: https://loom.ly/3bCx9oY

01/09/2026

February 2027 is when the EU battery passport becomes mandatory for electric vehicles and industrial batteries. What most companies are still figuring out is what it actually takes to comply.

It is not a form you submit once. It is a live data chain covering carbon footprint, recycled content, material sourcing, and due diligence, maintained and auditable across the full supply chain.

Companies like Honda Motor Europe are already building toward this. If you want to read more about what that work involves:
https://loom.ly/5otGNPU

25/08/2026

The battery passport is not a compliance document you submit and forget. It is a record that has to stay alive for as long as the battery does.

In this clip from our battery passport webinar with DEKRA, Mesbah explains why it works more like a birth certificate, and what has to happen to it at three different points in a battery's life. The end-of-life part is the one that catches people out.

Worth a watch if you are working on battery compliance, or on tracing what goes into any product that will need a digital product passport.

Wondering what this means for your products? Get in touch: https://loom.ly/vjgisQk

21/08/2026

18 EU regulations. 8 global jurisdictions. Over EUR 100 billion in funding. All connected to the same set of critical raw materials.

We've put together a guide mapping the full CRM regulatory landscape, from the CRM Act's 2030 benchmarks to China's tightening export controls and the EU funding mechanisms supporting the transition.

If your products contain lithium, cobalt, or rare earths, this is a useful starting point.

Download the guide: https://loom.ly/ee6u7qU

The EU's Critical Raw Materials Act is in force, and it doesn't operate in isolation.

18/08/2026

The EU's End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) Regulation entered into force on 13 August, covering cars, lorries, buses, and motorcycles.

The headline requirements:
- recycled plastic content at 15% from September 2032 (rising to 25% from 2036),
- a Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport for every new vehicle from the same date, and
- recycled content targets for steel and aluminium from 2033.

For recycled plastics, mass balance accounting is one of the accepted methodologies. It generally requires a Chain-of-Custody or batch-by-batch traceability from the ELVs to new vehicles.

Our blog maps the full requirements, the timeline, and a readiness checklist:
https://loom.ly/Te56Q_4

Circularise provides a digital solution to support both the recycled content traceability and the DCVP data layer.
♻️ The Trace module handles batch-by-batch material traceability through the supply chain, mass balance chain-of-custody accounting included.
🪪 The Share module powers the DCVP, interoperable with DPPs from other EU Regulations such as Battery Passport, ESPR and CRM Regulation.

Teijin traced recycled polycarbonate from scrapped vehicles on our platform:
https://loom.ly/a_H6tAc

We traced ELV materials through to new vehicles in the Audi MaterialLoop project:
https://loom.ly/geU1mFs

Contact: circularise.com/contact

The EU's End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation turns vehicle circularity into industrial strategy. Here's what automakers must do, the timeline, and the data behind it.

13/08/2026

New EU rules mean construction products will soon need their own "digital passport", a record of what they're made of, where they came from and how they should be handled at the end of their life.

If you work anywhere in construction materials, from manufacturing to supply to recycling, this affects you. We ran this session in July to a strong turnout, so we're doing it again.

We're taking part in a free live session on 25 August with Axionomic, DigiGo, TNO and the Toekomstbestendige Leefomgeving working group, breaking down what the Digital Product Passport actually requires and showing real examples of it in practice. There's time for your questions too.

📅 Tuesday, 25 August, 9:30–11:00 (Netherlands time)
🗣️ The session will be in Dutch

Sign up here for the free session: https://loom.ly/VygdzFw

10/08/2026

Japan recently joined Horizon Europe, becoming the most populous country to do so as an associated member. The formal connection between EU research funding and Japanese industrial expertise is new. The underlying alignment is not.

Japanese companies have invested in Circularise directly, signalling that they see EU sustainability standards as the benchmark worth building to. We have worked with names that cut across Japanese industry: Teijin Group, Asahi Kasei, Sekisui Chemical, Mitsubishi Chemical, Marubeni. We opened a Tokyo office in January 2025 and joined Japan's national battery traceability programme through NEDO's Ouranos Ecosystem.

Japan joining Horizon Europe makes this collaboration more structured. For industries working across both geographies on circular supply chains and digital product passports, the timing is good.

Read the full announcement: https://loom.ly/JrsUlmE

Highlights, press releases and speeches

05/08/2026

The EU has adopted its new End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation, and it reshapes how vehicles are designed, dismantled, and recycled.

The headline changes: every new vehicle will need a Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport from 2032, EV batteries and motors must be removable before shredding, and recycled-content rules phase in for plastics and metals. Underneath all of it sits one requirement, verified supply chain data.

Our latest blog explains what the Regulation asks of manufacturers, the timeline to prepare, and a checklist to see where you stand today.

Read it here: https://loom.ly/Te56Q_4

31/07/2026

Euro 7 published two new implementing regulations on 22 July 2026, both in force from 23 July.

👉One covers brake particle emission testing for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, including a requirement to upload in-service conformity data to an electronic platform from January 2028.

👉The other covers in-vehicle battery durability, EV range at low temperature, and electrified vehicle system power, setting out how manufacturers collect and demonstrate certified battery energy, OBFCM data, and performance records across approval families.

Together they point to what Euro 7 is really creating: a structured data layer across vehicle systems that connects brake components, batteries, vehicle types, and type-approval records. This connects forward to the Environmental Vehicle Passport and Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport.

Key dates:
📅 29 November 2026: Requirements apply to new M1 and N1 vehicle types
📅 23 January 2028: In-service conformity data uploads required for brake systems
📅 1 January 2030: OBFCM updates for pure EVs

If your team is working through what Euro 7 data collection looks like in practice, we are happy to talk: https://loom.ly/vjgisQk

30/07/2026

Circularise is 10 years old this month. 🎉

It began in 2016 as a graduation project at Delft University of Technology, looking at raw material transparency and geopolitical risk. The idea underneath it was simple enough: supply chains can't get more efficient, more resilient, or more circular unless you can actually trace what's moving through them.

That turned into a company built around one of the harder problems in industry, which is making supply chain data visible, usable, and provable. Companies were increasingly being asked to prove what their products were made of, but proving it often meant handing over supplier information they couldn't afford to share.

Ten years later, that's no longer a niche concern. It's written into regulation.

None of this was built alone, so a genuine thank you to the people who made it possible. Our team, past and present. The customers who trusted us early, when traceability was still a nice-to-have rather than a legal requirement. The partners we've built standards and projects with. Our investors, who stayed patient through a long build. And everyone who pushed back and made the work sharper.

Here's to the next ten. 💚