TOPPAN and Toppan Merrill are dedicated to service excellence and sustainability, emphasizing significant environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts.
At Toppan Merrill, we prioritize our clients’ needs in complex regulatory industries and recognize that our actions impact future generations.
Our team actively works to reduce our carbon footprint and fosters an equitable workplace guided by our values of Character, Collaboration, Curiosity, Courage, and Celebration. I am proud our team lives these values at work and while serving our communities.
We are a proud recipient of the EcoVadis Gold award in both the United Kingdom and United States recognizing excellence in sustainability and ESG performance.
As we deliver technology to help clients accomplish more, faster, we remain committed to making a positive difference in society, always considering the planet’s health, our team’s well-being, and the needs of the communities where we live and work.
About Toppan Merrill
Our teams provide industry-leading technology and service expertise to support our global financial and healthcare clients as they create required business communications for capital markets transactions, regulatory disclosure filings, shareholder and member communications, and sustainability reporting.
Toppan Merrill is committed to our clients and industries, and our global and local communities.
At Toppan Merrill we celebrate unique, innovative and highly skilled individuals. Our employees are based in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and India, where they also serve others in their communities in alignment with their values.
Commitment to ESG
TOPPAN and Toppan Merrill foundational values recognize the importance of ESG to our clients and our global communities. Toppan Merrill teams are diligently committed to environmental conservation and ensuring our culture is based on belonging and inclusivity.
ESG Recognition
We are very proud to be an EcoVadis Gold Medal recipient in the United Kingdom and United States, recognizing our dedication to sustainability practices and high human and labor rights standards.
Environment and Sustainability
Toppan Merrill has specifically designed policies that support our foundational Environmental, Social and Governance standards in operations and office workspaces. They include policies on:
- Energy Management
- Water Management
- Waste Management
- Chemical Management
- Smart Sustainable Offices and Facilities
We are dedicated to environmental sustainable planning and growth and the required planning to ensure progress is being made. We strive to provide support for environmentally sound principles that highlight the importance of a healthy environment and sustainability.
We focus on:
- Management of environmental resources
- Building and driving robust recycling programs
- Controlling and minimizing the use of chemical substances
- Pollution control
- Biodiversity
- Focusing on capital investments for environmental conservation
- Mitigating environmental risks, including climate change
- Sustainable production
- Leveraging technology to reduce production emissions
- Ensuring a safe and healthy work environment
- Forestry Management: FSC-Forest Stewardship Council Certification
- Environmental Practices: Guidance from ISO:14001 EMS
Our operations facilities are considered zero-waste, with more than 90% of our total waste being recycled.
Our largest operations facility generates 25% of its annual electrical usage, over 2.1 million kWh’s, from it’s roof-top solar field. In the summer months, nearly 100% of the electricity utilized by the facility is generated by solar, reducing the draw during peak usage periods.
In 2025, the solar field produced enough electricity to offset 1.3 million pounds of CO2 – the equivalent of planting 14,036 trees.
| Toppan Merrill Production Facility Progress – Tracking Period 2019-2025 | |
| Utilities Consumption & Waste Generation | Reduction % |
| Electricity | 62% |
| Natural Gas | 5% |
| Recycled Plastic | 55% |
| Recycled Cardboard | 19% |
| Recycled Paper | 80% |
| CO2 Tons | 74% |
| Water | 30% |
| Landfill Waste | 91% |
| VOC’s Volatile Organic Compounds | 97% |
Social
Toppan Merrill is dedicated to cultivating, fostering and preserving a culture of inclusion, where individuals feel valued and comfortably collaborate toward meaningful achievements.
Inclusiveness unites our different backgrounds, beliefs, abilities and experiences. It guides how we engage with each other and inspires us to take purposeful action to support the companies, clients, investors, employees and communities we serve.
The collective sum of individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in serving each other and our clients, represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and achievements.
Toppan Merrill provides safe and healthy working conditions, and supports diversity, human rights, charitable giving, labor practices, pay equity, employee professional development, and anti-retaliation.
In support of these pillars, Toppan Merrill has annual training and these employee policies on:
- Anti-Discrimination
- Annual Leaves, Fair Working Hours and Wages and Benefits
- Anti-Retaliation
- Anti-Slavery, Human Trafficking and Advocating for Human Rights
- Health and Safety
Governance
The Toppan Merrill Enterprise Risk Management Committee (“the ERM Committee”) assists the organization in achieving our Toppan Merrill Enterprise Risk Management (“ERM”) vision.
The ERM serves to help Toppan Merrill through corporate governance oversight responsibilities, with regard to the identification, evaluation and mitigation of strategic, operational, and external environmental risks.
Governance, risk and compliance mechanisms support the risk management framework by tracking risks identified via audits (internal and external), laws and regulations.
Toppan Merrill Governance includes policies on:
- Code of Conduct
- Business Continuity Plans
- Anti-Corruption (UK Bribery Act)
- Anti-Fraud
- Risk Management
- Data Privacy
- Cybersecurity
Summary
We understand the importance of ESG to our clients, our organization, our communities and the world.
We are focused on delivering best practices with a culture where we are unique in how we look, how we think, what we believe, how we live, and how we express ourselves.
Each year we strive to improve in every aspect of our ESG journey to ensure we are a positive, integral part of society because we understand ESG is a journey not a destination.
ESG Reporting and Compliance Solutions
