Automotive
Gestamp gives a vehicle maker one passport for 4.2M parts
Gestamp, which makes steel and aluminium components for vehicle makers, uses MARCO to share one Digital Product Passport covering 4.2M parts.
4.2M parts
covered by one Digital Product Passport
Digital Product Passport, GHG & PCF
The challenge
Gestamp is a Spanish multinational that designs and makes metal components for vehicle makers: body-in-white, chassis and mechanisms. It has production sites in 24 countries. Steel is its main material, followed by aluminium, and both carry emissions from the way they are made.
Vehicle makers are setting targets for the emissions in the parts they buy, and they ask suppliers for evidence: the carbon footprint of each part and how much recycled material it contains. For Gestamp that means data from the whole supply chain, from the mills that make its steel and aluminium to the scrap its own plants return for recycling. Reporting rules such as the CSRD add to the demand for granular, verifiable data.
Gestamp looks at its whole supply chain, not just tier one suppliers. For steel, that means working with the makers who turn iron ore into the steel it buys.
What MARCO does
Gestamp's first step with MARCO traced its own scrap back to the steel mill as secondary raw material, showing how a closed loop can raise the recycled content of the steel it buys. While low-emission steelmaking scales up, using as much recycled material as possible is one of Gestamp's main levers.
Building on that, Gestamp uses Digital Product Passport to model a part once and issue the passport its customer needs. MARCO combines data from material suppliers with Gestamp's own production records. GHG & PCF calculates the footprint per part from that primary data, and the passport shows the footprint, recycled content and the method behind each figure.
Every record is sealed, so the vehicle maker can check where each value came from rather than relying on averages.
Results
Gestamp now shares one Digital Product Passport covering 4.2M parts with a vehicle maker.
- Carbon footprint and recycled content per part, from primary data
- One passport for the whole volume instead of separate reports
- Evidence the customer can verify through a QR code
- A model that can be reused for other parts and programmes
The customer gets one place to check the data for the programme, and Gestamp answers from its own records rather than industry averages.
Traceability and evidence backed data are essential – both for compliant reporting in an increasingly regulated world, but perhaps more importantly for effective decision making to accelerate digitalization and the journey to net-zero