Consumer Durables Industry

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, expands the EU ecodesign framework beyond energy performance and creates the legal architecture for requirements on durability, reparability, resource efficiency, recycled content and product information, including Digital Product Passports where product-specific delegated acts require them. Energy-related products and ICT/electronics are included in the 2025-2030 ESPR work programme. The EU Right to Repair Directive, Directive (EU) 2024/1799, has also applied through national measures since 31 July 2026 for covered products, reinforcing access to repair and spare parts. Existing WEEE and energy-labelling requirements remain important for product design and market compliance.

For manufacturers, the practical priorities are to quantify life-cycle hotspots, reduce use-phase energy, extend service life, improve repairability, control critical materials and increase recoverability at end of life. Product data architecture is becoming more important because sustainability attributes increasingly need to be traceable at model or product level. Scenario analyses can compare design changes such as recycled polymers, lightweighting, component modularity, energy-efficiency improvements and lifetime extension without assuming that one intervention is automatically preferable.

Metsims can support consumer-durable manufacturers with product LCA, Product Carbon Footprint, material and energy scenario modelling, eco-design and circularity assessments. These studies can quantify the effect of efficiency improvements, lifetime assumptions, repair scenarios, recycled content and end-of-life options, while providing a technical basis for product development and environmental claims.

For companies preparing for ESPR and Digital Product Passport requirements, Metsims can map sustainability data fields, identify data gaps and develop a structured product-information model that can later be integrated into digital systems. At corporate level, Scope 1-3 inventories, supplier engagement and decarbonisation roadmaps can connect product-level changes with wider climate targets. The result is a single evidence base supporting regulatory readiness, R&D decisions, customer requests and measurable emissions reduction.

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