Operations
The company's head office is located on Farringdon Street, central London. The principal operating facility in the UK is located at Royston in Hertfordshire, with other facilities in Edinburgh, Brimsdown in Enfield, north London, Billingham in Teesside and Clitheroe in Lancashire as well as a large facility in Germiston, South Africa. The company's UK Technology Centre is based at Sonning Common in Oxfordshire. In the US its principal site is located at West Deptford, New Jersey.
Johnson Matthey is organised into three divisions:
- Environmental Technologies manufactures catalysts and catalytic converters for the automobile sector, automobile emissions controls and fuel cells.
- Precious Metals refines and distributes platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, gold and silver. Johnson Matthey is the world leader in platinum distribution and the sole marketing agent for Anglo Platinum, the world’s largest producer of platinum. It also produces colour technology products for the glass and ceramics industries.
- Fine Chemicals & Catalysts manufactures fine chemicals, electrochemical products and pharmaceutical ingredients, under brands including Alfa Aesar and MacFarlan Smith
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