2025 at Vugge til Vugge: A Year of Global Growth, Certified Products, and Circular Impact

As 2025 comes to an end, we look back on a year defined by meaningful growth, international collaboration, and a record number of Cradle to Cradle Certified® product achievements. For Vugge til Vugge ApS, this has been a year of strengthening our team, expanding our reach, and supporting companies in developing products that are safer, and more circular, and responsibly made. 

From electronics and footwear to interiors, paper, flooring, and building materials, our work continues to demonstrate that product circularity is not only possible—it is scalable across industries, supply chains, and continents. 

Stronger Together: Growing Our Assessment Team 

This year, we welcomed three colleagues whose expertise and dedication reinforce our mission as an accredited Cradle to Cradle Certified® Assessment Body: 

• Sebastian Häfele joined as C2C Lead Assessor, bringing extensive experience from the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and global auditing programmes. 

• Mikkel Barfod Boll joined as Sustainability Engineer and has begun his training to become a certified assessor. 

• Virginia Pelliccioni returned as C2C Assessor, re-joining our expanding assessment team. 

Their contributions enable us to support more clients, dive deeper into material and supply chain insights, and ensure rigorous assessments aligned with the latest Version 4.1 requirements of the Cradle to Cradle Certified® Product Standard. 

With these additions, the team now brings together six nationalities and five native languages — Danish, German, Spanish (including Argentinian and Galician), Swedish and Italian — alongside fluent English across the team, reflecting the truly international nature of Vugge til Vugge’s work. 

Recognition for Purposeful Growth 

In 2025, Vugge til Vugge was awarded the Børsen Gazelle Award for the second year in a row—a distinction given to fewer than 1% of Danish companies. 

We also earned ISO 9001:2015 certification for our Quality Management System—an important milestone for our clients and operations.

Global Assessments Across the Value Chain 

In 2025, our work took us around the world as we conducted on-site assessments across diverse industries. 
This year included factory visits in:

• China

• Italy

• Vietnam

• Romania

• Denmark

• Austria

• Finland

and remote site visits via video with suppliers in:

• China

• Latvia

• North America. 

Behind each certificate is a value chain, a production line, and a team of people committed to designing better products.  

These site visits and close collaborations are an essential part of the Cradle to Cradle Certified® assessment process. They allow us to verify that the information, data and claims provided are supported by real, physical production practices — not just paper documentation. 

In this way, all five certification categories are examined in an integrated manner, based on what is actually taking place in the factory environment. 

Over time, this hands-on assessment work has given us in-depth, practical expertise across production systems, industries and geographies. It allows us to assess products with a level of contextual understanding that can only be built through direct exposure to manufacturing realities — strengthening both the quality and credibility of the certifications we support. 

Certification Highlights: A Record Year of Achievements 

A Milestone Year in the Transition to Version 4 

In 2025, all new projects supported by Vugge til Vugge were delivered under Version 4 of the Cradle to Cradle Certified® Product Standard. Throughout the year, long-standing clients successfully transitioned from earlier versions of the standard, while new clients achieved certification directly under Version 4.1. 

These organizations met requirements across the five performance categories of: Material Health, Product Circularity, Clean Air & Climate Protection, Water & Soil Stewardship, and Social Fairness — under the Version 4.x framework. 

An important milestone in this transition was that Vugge til Vugge became the first assessment body approved by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute for one-step verification for both Versions 4.0 and 4.1. This approval was granted on the basis of our consistently high-quality assessments, robust documentation, and thorough verification practices. The one-step process enables a more efficient certification pathway without reducing technical rigor and reflects a strong level of trust from the Institute in our assessment approach. 

Version 4 Certification Highlights 

Under Version 4, companies across multiple sectors demonstrated leadership in circular product design and implementation. In 2025, Vugge til Vugge supported, among others, the following certifications: 

Consumer electronics 

• Bang & Olufsen — Beoplay H100, Beoconnect Core, Beosound A1 3rd Gen, Beosound Level, Beosound Theatre, Beolab 8, Beosound Premiere 

• Teufel — MYND portable Bluetooth speaker  

Footwear and fashion 

• glerups — Wool slippers  

• roccamore — Vegetable Tanned Collection and Traceable Collection 

Building materials, interiors and flooring 

• MinAltan — Balconies  

• Dansk Wilton — Colortec Origin+ and Axminster Origin carpets  

• furnipart — Furniture handles and profiles 

• Windmöller GmbH — PU Flooring System Collection and Sound, Noise and Decoupling System 

Paper and publishing 

• Hellefoss Paper AS — Book Paper  

• Johnsen Print & Digital Media A/S — Printed products 

Together, these certifications illustrate how Version 4.x is being successfully implemented across diverse industries and supply chains. For Vugge til Vugge, the focus in 2025 was not on certification volume, but on high-quality verification, successful transitions, and credible implementation of the latest generation of the standard. 

Looking Ahead: New Clients and New Certifications 

We are already working with several new clients whose certifications will be announced in early 2026. 
We look forward to revealing these collaborations as certificates are issued and published in the Cradle to Cradle Certified® Product Registry. 

The momentum behind circular product innovation has never been stronger, and we are honoured to support companies in turning ambition into measurable progress. 

Thank You 

To our clients, partners, colleagues, and collaborators across the value chain: thank you for your trust and dedication throughout 2025. Your ambition to design products for a circular economy is what makes this work meaningful. 

We look forward to continuing our shared journey in 2026—one product, one supply chain, and one certification at a time.