PPWR Compliance Services
for Businesses

Our warehouse team found out about a labeling problem the way most teams do: a shipment got held at customs in Rotterdam. Nobody had checked whether our new bottle format met the updated recycled content line. After that, we stopped trusting an annual review and moved the whole thing onto Lappa’s PPWR compliance service. Now a label gets checked before it ever reaches a printer, not after a customs officer finds the gap. We have shipped through four new countries since then without a single hold.

I run compliance for a company with no EU office at all, just a warehouse in Poland we rent by the pallet. Every authority wanted proof we had someone local responsible for our filings, and none of the forms were in English. Lappa’s team became that local contact in six countries within about five weeks. I still get an email in plain language a week or two before anything is due, something our old consultant never once managed.

We buy up small skincare brands, usually two or three a year, and each one shows up with its own mess of local filings or none at all. The last acquisition had exactly zero PPWR paperwork on file anywhere, which our lawyers only caught during due diligence. Lappa’s ppwr compliance service mapped that brand’s obligations in nine days and had it registered before the deal even closed. Our next acquisition took less time to onboard than it took to sign the contract.

Glass was never really our problem, our plastic closures and shrink-wrap multipacks were. When the recycled-content minimums for plastic components landed, nobody on our packaging team had mapped which SKUs used which resin or supplier. Lappa ran our full catalog against the incoming thresholds and told us which twelve closures actually needed a different supplier, not all forty. That single list saved our design budget for the year. Our whole approach to packaging compliance changed almost overnight, and we are still on schedule for next year’s deadline, with the twelve reworked and the rest left untouched.

Clients hire us to manufacture their packaging, so when they ask whether a format is compliant, we used to guess or wait on an external consultant for two weeks. Since we put our catalog into Lappa, that answer comes back the same afternoon, material by material. It has become part of our pitch now: we can tell a prospective client which of their current formats already pass and which do not, before we have even quoted the job.