Divisional Structure

Johnson Matthey has operations in 34 countries and employs around 7,000 people worldwide.

It is organised into four global divisions: Catalysts & Chemicals, Precious Metals, Colours & Coatings and Pharmaceutical Materials.

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Catalysts and Chemicals

Catalytic Systems
Catalytic Systems comprises Johnson Matthey’s global autocatalyst, heavy duty diesel and stationary source emission control businesses. We are the world’s leading manufacturer of catalysts for vehicle exhaust emission control and a leader in catalyst systems for the reduction of volatile organic compound emissions from industrial processes. Manufacturing takes place in the USA, UK, Belgium, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Malaysia, India and China. R&D facilities are in the USA, UK, Sweden, Japan and Brazil.

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 metal (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 business is based in the USA and UK.

Fuel Cells
Johnson Matthey is the world leader in catalysts and catalysed components for fuel cells.

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Precious Metals

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 Anglo Platinum, 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 a leading manufacturer of high purity small gold bars for investment and jewellery manufacture. Gold and silver refining operations are located in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong.

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Colours and Coatings

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 three businesses; Glass, Structural Ceramics and Speciality Coatings, 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.

Structural Ceramics
Our Structural Ceramics business manufactures colours, glazes and frits for the tile and sanitaryware industries, and includes our zircon business.

Speciality Coatings
Speciality Coatings supplies colours, glazes, decals and decorative precious metal products to manufacturers of fine china in the UK and around the world. It also produces a wide range of inorganic pigments and pigment dispersions for use in printing inks, paints, automotive finishes, woodstains and plastics.

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Pharmaceutical Materials

Pharmaceutical Materials Division is a global, integrated supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients, which provides services to pharmaceutical companies through every phase of the development of a new product.

Serving their respective markets in the US and Europe, the division’s West Deptford and Macfarlan Smith operations provide customers with bulk manufacturing services from Phase Three clinical trials through commercialisation of a patented or generic drug. The division has leading positions in the manufacture of controlled substances and platinum based anticancer drugs.

The division’s Pharm-Eco Laboratories business provides contract research and development and small scale manufacturing services from pre-clinical through to Phase Three clinical trials.