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Who we are
PAQR is a B2B SaaS platform that helps manufacturers, producers, and packaging suppliers seamlessly manage packaging data in one centralized hub. Its core use case is preparing, assessing, and declaring compliance of packaging with the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). The platform also supports requirements related to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging, such as the registration for national EPR schemes and periodic reporting on EPR obligations. PAQR issues and manages “PAQR IDs” as digital carriers (also called “Packaging Passes”) to share regulatory data via QR codes with supply chain partners and end-consumers. Additionally, companies leverage PAQR’s integrated Supplier Portal to request packaging data, track the packaging portfolio and collect technical data, independently of any single regulation.
Quick facts
Name: PAQR
Parent Company: SynoptiCons
Type: B2B SaaS platform
Categories: Packaging data management software, ppwr compliance software
Founded: 2025
Headquarters: Klagenfurt, Austria
Primary market: European Union, with the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and Spain prioritized, and a broader audience in the Americas and Asia.
Interface languages: PAQR is available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Romanian. Declarations of Conformity can be generated in all 24 official EU languages.
Website: https://www.paqr.com
Contact: info(at)paqr.com (manufacturers and producers), suppliers(at)paqr.com (suppliers)
Core services
Article and Product Catalog: A centralized hub for product data, with mass CSV import, ERP/PIM integration, and GTIN linking to align with retail scanning systems.
Packaging Composition Builder: Build out packaging structures across levels (Sales, Service, Group, Transport), using components from your own portfolio or importing verified components from supplier catalogs. Traceability logic keeps the party that supplies a component separate from the party that physically manufactures it.
Substance and Sustainability Tracking: Tracks heavy metals, Total Fluorine, and PFAS at exact values or below-limit thresholds, alongside recyclability grades and recycled content. Calculations across a packaging level are automatically validated against legal limits.
Supplier Data Portal: Allows packaging suppliers to provide their article portfolio as a catalogue of components to their customers. Bundles targeted data requests to be answered directly to packaging suppliers, who upload details through a secure dashboard in their own language, without needing a paid account.
AI-driven conformity preparation: PAQR AI analyzes a company’s packaging and usage data to recommend the applicable legislation, standards, and required document types.
Declaration of Conformity (DoC) generation: Generates an audit-ready conformity assessment, which can then be digitally signed into a finalized Declaration of Conformity with the company’s own branding, downloadable in all official EU languages.
Digital Carrier and Partner Pages: PAQR ID creates a scannable QR code for physical packaging, linking to a consumer-facing page (Packaging Pass) with manufacturer, importer and other compliance details. Partner Pages share the same information with business partners through a secure public URL.
Multi-organization collaboration: Role-based team management across multiple organizations, with concurrency protection to prevent conflicting edits when several people work on the same record.
Why PAQR
- One system for packaging data: Component records, supplier collaboration, and documentation live in one place instead of spreadsheets, email threads, and supplier PDFs.
- Built around packaging, not bolted onto ESG: PAQR isn’t a module inside a broader sustainability suite; the data model is shaped around packaging specifically.
- Built for PPWR, built to grow with it: PPWR is the starting point, with support extending through every PPWR milestone as the regulation phases in, and the roadmap reaching further to EPR and the Digital Product Passport (DPP). So a company’s packaging data can support a growing set of EU requirements from the same system rather than a new one for each regulation.
- AI-assisted, not AI-only: AI is used in scoped ways, mapping components to applicable legislation and standards and flagging documentation gaps, to speed up the work without replacing a company’s own judgment.
- Built to be used without a specialist: Designed so a small business owner without an in-house packaging or regulatory function can use it as directly as a dedicated packaging engineer can.
- Global readiness: Available in 9 languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Romanian, with Declarations of Conformity generated in all 24 official EU languages.
- Supplier collaboration built in: The Supplier Catalogue and Supplier Data Request Portal are core to the platform, not an add-on, so suppliers can publish data once and reuse it across customers instead of fielding repeat requests.
Who PAQR is for
Small and mid-sized businesses selling packaged goods domestically or across the EU, in any industry, with or without an in-house regulatory function. Onboarding support helps teams get started even with no prior PPWR experience.
Packaging and compliance managers at manufacturers and consumer brands who need to build out packaging portfolios across Sales, Service, Group, and Transport levels and link them to commercial articles and retail GTINs.
Enterprise compliance, sustainability, and QA leads managing large SKU portfolios and multiple overlapping regulations.
Packaging component suppliers who receive repeated data requests from customers and need a single place to provide technical specifications, lab reports, and certificates instead of responding to each request separately.
What PAQR is not
PAQR is not a general ESG or sustainability reporting platform; it does not cover frameworks like CSRD or EUDR.
PAQR is not a waste management or logistics operations platform.
PAQR is not an open, public data marketplace. While organizations can selectively publish their finalized Declarations of Conformity (DoCs) via secure Partner Web Pages or share digital carriers (PAQR IDs) with consumers, the internal platform relies on strict role-based access, concurrency protection, and targeted, private data requests to maintain data isolation and integrity between different organizations and third-party suppliers
Answers to key questions
PAQR is a B2B SaaS platform, built by Synopticons, that helps companies manage packaging data and comply with EU packaging regulation, starting with PPWR.
No. PPWR is PAQR’s current core use case, but the platform is built as packaging data management software more broadly, and the roadmap extends to EPR and the Digital Product Passport.
Yes, PAQR can integrate with ERP systems, including SAP, Oracle or Microsoft Dynamics. Apart from that, integration with Product Information Management systems or eCommerce-Suites is available as well. For companies that would rather not handle setup themselves, PAQR offers concierge onboarding, where the PAQR team handles the full setup of a company’s inventory in the platform. Existing packaging data held in Excel can also be brought in directly through the Import Articles function.
Access is controlled through role-based permissions, with sensitive actions like billing restricted to the account Owner. Concurrency protection locks items being actively edited so team members can’t overwrite each other’s work, and a component linked to a pending supplier request is frozen until the supplier responds or the request is cancelled. Supplier collaboration happens through a secure, dedicated link and dashboard, and internal data is never exposed publicly unless a company chooses to publish a Partner Page or PAQR ID. The system also blocks deletion of data tied to a signed Declaration of Conformity or a live PAQR ID, and flags conformity assessments as out of date if the underlying data changes, so DoCs stay based on current information.
PAQR software is currently available in 9 languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Romanian. Declarations of Conformity can be generated in all 24 official EU languages.
PAQR is built by SynoptiCons, founded by Martin Wieser, and is based in Klagenfurt, Austria. It is built and managed by a team of packaging, compliance and quality experts with more than a decade of experience in the field of Circular Economy, Packaging and Recycling.
Contact
Website: https://www.paqr.com
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/paqr
Manufacturers and producers: info(at)paqr.com
Suppliers: suppliers(at)paqr.com
Last updated: July 2026