Testing and Certification for Sustainability-ready Products
Independent verification enables faster regulatory approval, improves brand credibility, and ensures reliable entry into global markets. As the global landscape shifts, it is crucial to understand how these services align with evolving sustainability requirements.
Global demand for sustainable products is rising. Manufacturers must now comply with new sustainability rules and provide transparent, verifiable product information, in addition to existing safety and compliance standards.
Sustainability is becoming a prerequisite for market access, building on the previous regulatory landscape. Frameworks such as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the EU Battery Regulation, and the Digital Product Passport (DPP) initiatives introduce additional requirements for product transparency, performance, and conformity across global markets.
DEKRA helps manufacturers address these requirements with third-party testing, verification, and validation. This structured approach enhances compliance, proves sustainability performance, and enables reliable market access.
What Makes a Product Sustainable?
Sustainable products are defined by measurable performance across key sustainability dimensions. These include durability, energy efficiency, material responsibility, and use-phase performance.
DEKRA services support key sustainability topics, including:
Reliability and Durability
Durable, reliable products support sustainability by reducing early replacements, minimizing waste, and enabling longer product lifetimes.
- Reliability testing
- Durability testing and product longevity evaluation
Resources and Energy: Use and Efficiency
Energy efficiency and optimized consumption are increasingly driving regulatory requirements and market expectations across product categories.
- Energy consumption testing
- Standby power testing
- Energy labeling and classification support
- LED and lighting technology efficiency testing
Substances of Concern and Material Compliance
Responsible material selection and restricted substance control are essential product requirements across many markets.
- Chemical compliance services (e.g., REACH, RoHS)
- Restricted substances and material compliance evaluation
Recyclability and Recycled Content
Circularity expectations require greater transparency on recyclability and recycled content in products.
- Recyclability evaluation and assessment
- Recycled content evaluation, where applicable
Product Transparency and Digital Product Passport
Expanding product transparency requirements make DEKRA's verification and validation essential for compliance documentation, risk reduction, and customer confidence.
- Verification and validation services supporting Digital Product Passport requirements
- Support for Digital Battery Passport-related information and evidence readiness, where applicable
In-use Performance and Connected Products
Sustainability performance extends throughout the use phase. Testing approaches support optimization strategies and evidence generation for connected products.
- Smart products (IoT) testing supporting energy optimization
- Field monitoring and residual-life assessment support
Services Supporting Clean Energy Technologies
DEKRA supports key clean energy technologies through testing and evaluation services, including:
- Battery testing for energy storage systems (BESS)
- Renewable energy-related testing activities (e.g., PV modules and inverter testing)
- Smart grid-related validation activities, including interoperability and grid-code relevant aspects
- Testing and evaluation services supporting emerging low-carbon energy technologies
Services Supporting Sustainable Mobility
DEKRA backs sustainable mobility with testing, verification, and validation services, including:
- EV testing and homologation services supporting regulatory requirements and market access
- EVSE testing activities covering safety and performance aspects
- Radio and wireless testing and certification for connected charging infrastructure
- Validation support for interoperability and connectivity requirements (e.g., V2G-related aspects)
- Fuel cell component-related services supporting compliance and homologation requirements
Manufacturers face complex, evolving regulations. DEKRA offers bundled services that combine testing, verification, and validation across topics.
This approach streamlines compliance, saves time, and ensures readiness for changing regulations and global opportunities.
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With DEKRA’s support, manufacturers gain straightforward regulatory compliance, credible sustainability credentials, and easier access to international markets.
Testing and certification for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure technology.
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State-of-the-art assessment to ensure the safety, reliability and compatibility of electric vehicle charging solutions, equipment and supporting infrastructure.
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We support customers in testing and certifying their batteries, from cell to module, to pack. Our services cover a wide range of products.
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DEKRA and Sphere partner to redefine how battery cells are validated by combining physical testing with a unique AI-based simulation to enhance safety.
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Regulatory testing to minimize risk and protect consumers by identifying hazardous substances and chemicals used in manufacturing or found in finished products.
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Material testing and chemical analysis according to automotive standards.
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