Challenge

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The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires that natural rubber placed on the EU market is deforestation-free, legally produced and traceable to the plot. For a supplier moving rubber into Europe, that means the evidence has to exist at the level of individual farms, not at the level of a shipment.

Tower Commodities sourced from a base of smallholder farmers whose details sat in scattered records rather than in one verifiable system. Without mapped plots and a consistent risk view, there was no way to demonstrate to European buyers that the material was deforestation-free.

The company needed every farmer and plot captured and screened, and the resulting evidence organised so that it would hold up to audit and keep shipments moving into the EU.

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Approach

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TRST01 deployed TRST01Chain to map the supply base at plot level and put risk assessment and deforestation screening around it.

• Onboarded the farmer base and replaced scattered supplier records with a single digital source.
• Mapped every production plot as a geolocated polygon (GeoJSON).
• Ran deforestation analysis and risk assessment across the mapped plots.
• Organised the resulting evidence so each shipment could be supported with audit-ready documentation.

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Solution

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With TRST01Chain in place, Tower Commodities has a mapped, screened supply base and the evidence to prove it.

• Farmer onboarding with plot polygon mapping across the sourcing network.
• Satellite deforestation analysis on every mapped plot.
• Risk-assessment tooling giving a clear view of exposure across the supply base.
• Audit-ready EUDR documentation supporting shipments into the EU.

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What’s next

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With the supply base mapped and screened, Tower Commodities is extending the same plot-level traceability as its sourcing network and European volumes grow.