Awards and Accolades

Over the years Johnson Matthey has received international recognition not only for the way it manages it's business but also for the success and ingenuity of its products. 

Here are a few of our most recent accolades. 

Johnson Matthey ranked 'Number 2 Most Admired Company' in the UK in the 2008 Management Today Awards. Johnson Matthey also ranked Number 1 as value as a long term investment and Number 1 in the UK Chemicals sector.

In 2007, Johnson Matthey was named the UK Chemical Industries Association's Company of the Year.

Johnson Matthey’s palladium-based mercury sorbent technology wins a prestigious R&D 100 Award recognising it as one of the world’s 100 most technologically significant products for 2008. The novel palladium-based technology for removing mercury and arsenic in syngas from coal gasification was developed in conjunction with the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory.

Johnson Matthey wins the Engineering Services Environment Award in the 2007 IChemE Awards for our catalysed soot filter, a product used to remove harmful soot from diesel exhausts of passenger cars.

Johnson Matthey's Gas Processing Business wins Queen's Award for Enterprise 2007 in the International trade categorgy for its PURASPEC products which used to remove sulphur and mercury contaminants from gaseous and liquid hydrocarbon streams.

In 2006, Johnson Matthey was one of the partners awarded the prestigious Descartes Prize for Research and the IPHE Technical Achievement Award for Project Hydrosol - a European funded consortium that has successfully used concentrated sunlight to continuously convert water into its elements, hydrogen and oxygen.