Tilkal named a Market Shaper in Gartner's Emerging Market Quadrant for Digital Product Passport

We're proud to share that Tilkal has been recognized as a “Market Shaper” in Gartner's Emerging Market Quadrant for Digital Product Passport - Established Vendors, published 6 July 2026.

In a very competitive and populated landscape, just a handful of vendors made the cut worldwide, and Gartner placed Tilkal in the top right corner of the quadrant, the intersection of the strongest potential to execute and the strongest potential for market disruption.

Digital Product Passports: why this recognition comes at a pivotal moment

The DPP market sits within a broader wave of EU circular economy regulation, including the Battery Regulation taking effect in February 2027 and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation later that year.

As implementation timelines approach, Gartner highlights persistent challenges around collecting verified data from multi-tier suppliers and points to a market converging on open standards such as The United Nations Transparency Protocol (UNTP) and GS1 EPCIS 2.0 to ensure product data remains interoperable across the value chain.

Against this backdrop, the market has attracted a crowded mix of vendors, including basic, vibe-coded DPP providers, even as data models and technical standards continue to mature, making the selection of an established, future-proof technology partner increasingly challenging for businesses.

What the Emerging Market Quadrant for Digital Product Passports recognizes

Gartner's Emerging Market Quadrant for Established Vendors evaluates larger, more established providers whose Digital Product Passport capabilities build on broader domain expertise.

The quadrant assesses vendors along two dimensions: their potential to execute today and their potential to disrupt the market. Market Shapers occupy the top-right corner, representing the strongest position across both.

According to the report, Market Shapers combine deep, hands-on experience delivering traceability solutions at scale with architectures built on open, shared data standards, giving them an advantage in the foundational data work that Digital Product Passports require.

The report also notes that this group is among the first to apply AI to make data integration and management more efficient. It highlights their ability to extend DPP beyond compliance into a tool for supply chain risk management and customer engagement.

On execution, Gartner points to Market Shapers' track record of large-scale production deployments rather than pilot-stage projects, as well as their broad supplier networks and extensive implementation experience. The report also cites their active role in shaping DPP standards through initiatives including the United Nations Transparency Protocol (UNTP) and CEN-CENELEC. Tilkal actively contributes to both initiatives, helping shape the open standards that underpin interoperable Digital Product Passports.

Why this matters for Tilkal

We believe Digital Product Passports are about far more than regulatory compliance. Building a DPP requires companies to map supply chains, structure product data, and connect fragmented systems, creating a deeper understanding of products, suppliers, and value chains.

Combined with dynamic, end-to-end traceability, DPP become more than a static record: they become a continuously enriched digital representation of how and where products are sourced, made, moving, and transformed. This enables businesses to improve decision-making, manage risks, and build greater trust with customers and partners.

That is the challenge Tilkal has been addressing since 2017. At the core of our platform is a Supply Chain Data Hub that collects and aggregates N-tier operational, environmental, and social data, from raw materials to end products to end-of-life, transforming fragmented supply chain information into real-time, actionable intelligence.

Built on GS1 EPCIS, UNTP standards, and a B2B blockchain infrastructure for data provenance and auditability, the Supply Chain Data Hub tracks products at any level of granularity, from purchase orders and batches to serialized units, while managing complex value chain transformations such as mixing, aggregation, mass balance, and transport. Through its modular architecture, it enables companies to power compliance, transparency, and operational use cases, including Digital Product Passports built on trusted supply chain data.

"For us, this recognition confirms something we've believed since founding Tilkal: a Digital Product Passport is only as credible as the traceability data behind it," said Matthieu Hug, CEO and co-founder of Tilkal.

"It's also a reflection of the trust our customers place in us every day, and of the work our team has put into solving one of the hardest problems in this market: turning fragmented, multi-tier supply chain data into something reliable enough to build a passport on. We take this as motivation to keep pushing the DPP market forward, not just toward compliance, but toward a standard of transparency that gives brands and their customers real confidence in the products they make and buy."

What's next

Gartner's market analysis highlights a shift we strongly believe in: as regulatory deadlines pass, the conversation around Digital Product Passports will move from compliance alone to the broader business value they unlock, as product data is becoming a prerequisite for global market access.

The long-term value of DPP will come from the capabilities they enable when built on a trusted, end-to-end supply chain data backbone. Organizations that invest in this foundation today will be better positioned not only to meet evolving requirements, but also to improve operational agility, strengthen supply chain resilience, and make better decisions over time.

We want to thank our customers, partners, and the Tilkal team for making this recognition possible. This is a milestone, not a finish line. We look forward to continuing to build the infrastructure that makes Digital Product Passports genuinely useful - not just compliant.

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Source: Gartner, "Emerging Market Quadrant for Digital Product Passport - Established Vendors," Kevin Lawrence, Marta Muñoz, Rajan Saini, 6 July 2026.