Our Progress

Going forward we remain focused on the two key drivers of our Sustainability 2017 Vision:

• To be more efficient with the resources we use as a business; and
• To design new products and services which help our customers to be more sustainable and competitive.

Much of our progress to date towards driver (i) has been achieved by incremental improvements in operational and process efficiencies, the so called ‘low hanging fruit’. We have recognised the need to focus further on the step change opportunities that will drive more substantial operational improvements and accelerated progress towards our Sustainability 2017 targets.

In relation to driver (ii), we continue to develop and bring products and technologies to the marketplace which aim to deliver significant environmental, social and health benefits for our customers. Examples of these are presented as case studies accompanying this report. The group is committed to R&D investment to support business growth and going forward, we will maintain our focus on effective R&D programmes, collaborations with customers and technology implementation. This will underpin the delivery of products and technologies for existing and new markets driven by the continued evolution of the global sustainability agenda. This will support further progress towards our 2017 targets and add real value to Johnson Matthey.

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