
Catalysts & Chemicals consists of Autocatalysts, Pharmaceutical
Materials and Chemicals. It also includes Johnson Matthey’s Fuel
Cell business.
Autocatalysts
We are a world leading manufacturer of catalysts for vehicle exhaust
emission control and reduction of volatile organic compound emissions
from industrial processes. Manufacturing takes place in the USA,
UK, Belgium, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Malaysia and India
and we have R&D facilities in the USA, UK, Sweden, Japan and Brazil.
Pharmaceutical
Materials
Manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients for sale to leading
pharmaceutical companies. We also partner with customers to develop
and manufacture patent protected drugs and generic controlled
substances. Production is in the USA.
Chemicals
Process Catalysts manufactures supported and homogeneous catalysts,
fine chemicals and electrochemical products such as catalysts
for fuel cells and gas detectors. Our platinum group metals (pgm)
refining business recovers spent catalysts and other secondary
material and also refines primary pgms from global mining operations.
Manufacturing facilities are in the USA and UK.
Our research chemicals catalogue business, Alfa Aesar, is based
in the USA and Germany.
Fuel Cells
Johnson Matthey is the world leader in catalysts and catalysed
components for fuel cells.

Our Precious Metals Division is organised into two groups; Platinum
and Gold and Silver, and incorporates Johnson Matthey’s precious
metals marketing, fabrication and refining activities.
Platinum
Consists of our worldwide platinum marketing and fabrication activities.
Marketing is headquartered in London with support facilities in
Philadelphia and Hong Kong. We are the world’s leading distributor
of platinum group metals and the sole marketing agent for Amplats,
the world’s largest producer of platinum. Our platinum fabrication
business makes a wide range of platinum group metal products primarily
in the UK and USA.
Gold and Silver
Comprises our worldwide gold and silver refining and bullion manufacturing
operations. Johnson Matthey is the market leader in the refining
of gold and silver. The business serves the world’s mining industries
and recycles secondary scrap material.We are also the world’s
largest manufacturer of high purity small gold bar products for
investment and jewellery manufacture.
Gold and silver refining operations are located in the UK, USA,
Canada,Australia and Hong Kong.

Colours & Coatings Division is ranked among the world’s top three
integrated suppliers of decorative products and associated raw
materials for ceramics and glass.The division is structured into
four businesses; Glass, Pigments and Dispersions, Structural Ceramics
and Tableware, which are organised around the key markets that
we serve.
Glass
Based in the Netherlands, our Glass business manufactures black
obscuration and silver conductive enamels for automotive glass.
It also makes enamels and decorative precious metal products for
other glass applications such as bottles and architectural glass.
Pigments
and Dispersions
Pigments and Dispersions produces a wide range of inorganic pigments
and pigment dispersions for use in printing inks, paints, automotive
finishes, woodstains and plastics.
Structural Ceramics
Our Structural Ceramics business manufactures colours, glazes
and frits for the tile and sanitaryware industries, and includes
our zircon business.
Tableware
Tableware supplies colours, glazes, decals and decorative precious
metal products to manufacturers of fine china in the UK and around
the world.