Trace One

Trace One is a process manufacturing and retail PLM vendor with European headquarters in Puteaux, near Paris, and offices in New York and Shanghai. Founded in 2001, it acquired Italian-rooted formula PLM specialist Selerant in 2022 and the two companies became one in 2023. Main Capital Partners announced its acquisition of Trace One on 23 April 2025, following earlier ownership by HG Capital and STG. Its timeline lists offices in the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, China, India, Serbia and Ukraine.

The flagship Trace One Devex PLM, derived from Selerant's Devex, covers formulation, specifications, labelling, artwork proofing, supplier portals and project management. Releases from 2025 and 2026 added an ingredient database integration with Covalo, DocuSign signatures, an AI extractor for PDF specifications, validity-dated product versioning and Trace One Copilot. In April 2026 three Copilot assistants were introduced for regulatory affairs, product development and supply chain data extraction, deployable on public cloud, private cloud or on-premise.

Trace One publishes a three-part PPWR framework. Its supplier portal collects packaging composition, materials, weight, recyclability, certificates and test results; automated checks test packaging against PPWR limits, including PFAS thresholds for food-contact packaging; and the system generates PPWR Declarations of Conformity with version control. Country dashboards cover French AGEC requirements through CITEO and UK filings. This depth makes Trace One one of the more documented options for packaging compliance in food and consumer goods.

Trace One documents PPWR packaging data collection, automated PFAS and limit checks, Declaration of Conformity generation, and AGEC and UK EPR dashboards.