Johnson Matthey

At JM we combine our specialist expertise, differentiating technologies and unique capabilities as well as a 200-year heritage to supply sustainable products and deliver a collaborative service that’s focused on strengthening our customers’ products, ensuring timely clinical development and launch.

JM supplies efficient and sustainable products and services for companies developing pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and other fine and speciality chemicals. We are leading providers of pharmaceutical services, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and catalyst technologies. Our customers trust us to provide them with expert complex chemistry solutions, optimising chemical processes and accelerating their innovation. We take pride in surpassing our customers’ aims using a combination of deep R&D knowledge, large-scale global capabilities and a portfolio of unique technologies.

Four Core Offerings

We collaborate efficiently across our four core offerings, which include Custom Pharma Solutions, Controlled Substances, Catalysts, and APIs & Life Cycle Management to provide our customers with a broad range of specialised services to help them develop complex and niche molecules. Through these offerings, we ensure your goals aren’t just met, they are surpassed.

1. Custom Pharma Solutions

Our custom pharma solutions offering brings together R&D expertise and specialist technologies to provide a full range of bespoke drug development, scale-up and manufacturing services, from pre-clinical and toxicological studies to development and commercial manufacturing. Through this offering, our expert teams focus on understanding your business so that we can solve your most challenging chemistries and scale-up problems allowing for efficient launch of your innovative pharmaceuticals and high potents.

2. Controlled Substances

JM products are used extensively in therapeutic areas including analgesia, CNS disorders and anti-addiction treatments. We have deep expertise in handling complex APIs and controlled substances, spending more than 200 years building our extensive range of opiates and other regulated substances. Through our state-of-the-art facilities and GMP-compliant bulk production plants we have the knowledge to overcome the most challenging chemistries and complex paperwork, ensuring the reliable supply of controlled substance APIs to our customers.

3. Catalysts

We offer a portfolio of high technology heterogeneous, homogeneous, chiral and bio catalysts which will enable your chemistry. Our global technical teams have market leading expertise and can find you the best solution with efficient and sustainable chemistry.

Our global technical teams have market-leading expertise and can find you the best solutions with efficient and sustainable chemistry. Through our Catalyst offering we provide our customers with an unmatched portfolio of catalysts and services including heterogeneous, homogeneous, chiral and bio catalysts to help make their chemistries more efficient, selective and sustainable while reducing cost, process steps and waste.

4. APIs & Life Cycle Management

We provide an extensive range of APIs and the invaluable expertise to develop many more. We are particularly knowledgeable in platinum-based actives and prostaglandins as well as products covering a wide range of therapeutic classes such as anti-cancer, anti-rheumatic, addiction, psychiatric disorders and ophthalmic indications, however we are continually seeking to expand and increase our API portfolio through collaborative working. JM believes that combining innovative business models with collaborative process development helps to strengthen your products, while reducing your risk.