Specialist Services

Johnson Matthey offers a range of specialist services including precious metal management, chemical process and technology licensing, process diagnostics for the oil and gas industry and pharmaceutical research and development

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Precious Metal Management Services

Johnson Matthey’s Precious Metals Marketing (PMM) business provides a range of management services for platinum group metals (pgms).

Its secure storage facilities in the UK and the USA are internationally recognised trading locations which act as liquidity hubs for pgm ingot, grain and sponge and are used to facilitate metal transactions by mining companies, refiners, fabricators, traders and end users worldwide.

PMM provides a full range of metal trading services for the international pgm industry: these include the operation of client metal accounts, pricing alternatives for buying or selling pgms and arranging delivery of metals to international locations.

PMM offers to advise clients on trends in pgm markets, informed by its regular reviews of pgm price movements and its unique in-depth research into pgm market supply and demand.

Visit our Platinum Today website to find out more.

Chemical Process and Technology Licensing

Davy Process Technology

Davy Process Technology develops and licenses advanced proprietary process technologies for the oil, gas and chemicals industries. It also offers collaborating companies an extensive range of technology development, process design and engineering skills. Its extensive portfolio includes process technologies for the manufacture of:

  • Methanol
  • Susbtitute natural gas (SNG)
  • Gas to liquids (GTL)
  • Oxo alcohols
  • Butanediol, tetrahydrofuran, gamma butyrolactone
  • Natural detergent alcohols
  • Ethyl Acetate
  • Amines
  • Propylene glycol
  • Purified terephthalic acid (PTA)
  • Dimethyl ether (DME)
  • Biodiesel.  

Visit the Davy Process Technology website to find out more.

Process Diagnostics and Measurement for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals Industries

Tracerco

Tracerco is a specialist measurement business that provides process diagnostic services through a broad range of analytical techniques and instrumentation.

Tracerco employs innovative technologies to measure, characterise and control process systems and diagnose operational problems in all aspects of the supply chain for oil and gas production, from reservoir management through refining and to retail outlets for consumer fuel products.

Tracerco’s extensive range of products and services include:

  • Instrumentation and process diagnostics to improve process control and optimise asset performance
  • Radiation monitors, radiation protection advice and training
  • Reservoir characterisation
  • Analytical services
  • Fuel tagging technology for brand protection of industrial products from counterfeiting or adulteration.

Visit the Tracerco website to find out more.

Pharmaceutical Research and Development

Johnson Matthey Pharma Services

Johnson Matthey Pharma Services provides research, development and manufacturing services to customers in the pharmaceutical industry for the discovery and development of small molecules, natural products and highly potent active ingredients, including controlled drug substances.

Our range of services, all underpinned by cGMP and regulatory compliance, includes:

  • Custom synthesis
  • Process development
  • Scale-up, optimisation, validation
  • Medicinal chemistry.

Johnson Matthey Pharma Services also offers:

  • Separation technologies
  • Asymmetric / chiral development
  • Analytical technologies
  • Catalytic process screening
  • Manufacturing capability from gramme to hundreds of kilogramme scale.

Visit the Johnson Matthey Pharma Services website to find out more.

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