Research of 300 Product Stewardship leaders finds market access now drives investment, but data and systems are not keeping pace
CHICAGO, IL (November 5, 2026) – Sphera® today announced new product compliance capabilities, along with new Sphera AI sustainability solutions, that help organizations keep pace with evolving regulations and secure market access with trusted product data.
The launch comes as the ability to prove a product is compliant, sustainable and transparent increasingly determines whether it can be sold. In new Sphera research of 300 Product Stewardship leaders in the US, UK and Germany, market access and customer requirements were the most-cited factor in investment decisions (42%), ahead of compliance and risk reduction (39%). With 81% of companies now managing product compliance and product sustainability together, the pressure to deliver trusted data across both is growing.
Yet many organizations are still working to build the data and systems to meet those demands. Respondents cited regulatory and market requirements (41%), data quality (40%) and systems and scalability (39%) among their top challenges. The EU’s Digital Product Passport, which will bring product compliance and product sustainability data together in a single product record, will make the need for a unified, trusted data foundation even more important.
“It is no longer enough for a product to be compliant. Customers, OEMs and regulators now expect products to also be sustainable and transparent, and increasingly that decides whether it can reach the market,” said Paul Marushka, CEO and president of Sphera. “Companies that invest in building a trusted product data foundation will stay competitive as requirements change. That is where Sphera AI comes in, helping organizations produce the data and insights needed across their portfolios to bring products to market with confidence.”
Sphera is introducing new sustainability solutions powered by Sphera AI that automate the mapping of product data to trusted environmental data and make it easy to find lower-impact materials. Teams can generate carbon footprints, life cycle assessments and environmental product declarations across an entire portfolio rather than one product at a time, with expert review built in. Non-experts can also search by everyday material names, putting sustainability decisions in the hands of the people who specify and source products. Built on Sphera’s DEKRA-verified environmental data, the solutions produce results that hold up under customer and regulatory scrutiny.
On the product compliance side, new capabilities help teams keep safety data sheets and labels accurate across jurisdictions as regulations change and streamline the collection of supplier declarations. They also generate the signed declarations of conformity now required for packaging sold in the EU under the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), so teams can respond to regulators and customers with confidence.
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