Two short videos answer the most important questions: What is ECLASS, and how do you find products in the standard?

The demands placed on ECLASS are growing. The current Content Development Platform (CDP) dates back more than 20 years. That is why the ECLASS Development Platform (EDP) was presented at the General Assembly 2026. Read on to learn what it brings to the community and what the timeline to release looks like.

InspiredE will continue to develop its Configurator and MatClass DataManagement as an independent GmbH and remains an active ECLASS member.

At the IDTA workshop "Sustainability & Lifecycle Data Architecture" in Frankfurt, ECLASS contributed to standards and semantics for sustainable product data. The Digital Battery Passport and the Digital Product Passport were the focus. In the "External Standards & Semantics" team, we took part in the discussions and came away with many ideas for our joint work.

The ECLASS General Assembly 2026 set important directions: the ECLASS Standard is getting a new development platform, and the Board has been newly constituted. Here is what this means for members and users.

At the ECLASS General Assembly, Gerd Schöbel of Bayer was elected to the ECLASS Board. With several years of experience implementing digitalization projects based on ECLASS, he brings a practical perspective from the process industry. In this interview, he discusses his motivation, the importance of standards and his goals for ECLASS.

ECLASS 17.0 expands product descriptions to include metadata for Environmental Product Declarations. The new aspect makes information about EPD documents available in a structured format, complementing the quantitative data captured by the PEF aspect.

How can material master data that has accumulated over time be standardized and kept useful in the long term? Together with D&TS, Emmi structured, cleansed and harmonized its material master data.