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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.

Catalysts & ChemicalsPharmaceutical 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.

Precious MetalsPlatinum
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.

Colours & CoatingsGlass
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.

 

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