Johnson Matthey
Johnson Matthey Plc listed on the London Stock Exchange in the FTSE 100, a global company in the UK is producing the catalysts is refined precious metals and recycled and processed and active in specialty chemicals. The company is headquartered near Trafalgar Square in central London. The origins of Johnson Matthey and date back to 1817, when Percival Norton Johnson founded a business in the gold trade. 1851 George Matthey joined the company and the name changed to Johnson & Matthey.
The company has three business areas:
Environmental technologies
- Catalysts for light commercial vehicles (2011/ 12 Turnover 969 million pounds )
- Catalysts for diesel engines of heavy trucks and buses (2011/ 12 Turnover 438 million pounds )
- Catalysts for the petrochemical and chemical industries, in particular nitrogen production, oil refining and gas liquefaction, methanol production and preparation of additives and superabsorbent polymers, (2011/ 12 Turnover 256 million pounds )
- Catalysts for fuel cells ( 2011/12 turnover 9.2 million pounds )
Precious metal products
- Refining, recycling and processing of precious metals such as platinum, palladium, ruthenium, iridium, rhodium, gold and silver (2011/ 12 Sales 9,841 million pounds )
Fine Chemicals
- Dyes and pigments for glass and ceramics industry
- Pharmaceutical materials.