Case Study: How Novalis Uses Digital Product Passports to Drive Sustainability and Supply Chain Transparency

We live in a digital world where information about chemicals is expected to be in one place, accessible to everyone and up-to-date. Companies up and down the supply chain want answers to questions now. Not tomorrow, not in a few hours, but now. If chemicals were people, they would travel with documentation. Just as you have your Passport with you when you travel abroad, so too should chemicals. But what is even better than a physical passport? A digital one.

How Novalis utilizes Digital Product Passports from 3E Exchange to keep its supply chain sustainable and its stakeholders satisfied

Client

Novalis® Innovative Flooring is a multi-national Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) flooring company that shipped the first container of LVT from China to the United States 35 years ago. Novalis has locations spanning multiple regions, from North America to Asia and the company has a diverse group of stakeholders for its products. Indeed, there are architects and designers of the flooring, engineers who build the flooring, construction companies and installers who work with the flooring and ultimately end-use consumers. All of these stakeholders need to know what chemicals are in the products so that they may safely work with and interact with their products during storage, transportation, installation, use and end-of-life. Flooring should contribute to the safety of both commercial and residential buildings. For Novalis, safety intersects with sustainability.