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Johnson Matthey

Platinum group metals and Fischer-Tropsch technology for sustainable aviation fuel

Johnson Matthey

About Johnson Matthey

Johnson Matthey (JM) is a British company with more than 200 years of history that describes itself as a world leader in platinum group metals (PGMs), applying, refining and recycling the metals under the purpose Metals that matter, for a healthier world. Headquartered at 5th Floor, 2 Gresham Street in London, the company serves energy, chemicals and automotive customers with catalysts, process technologies and PGM refining, is the world's largest recycler of PGMs, and in early 2026 refreshed its strategy around three horizons, Core, Scaling and Emerging. Recent developments on its site include a new PGM refinery, the completed acquisition of Cormetech and the sale of a business to Honeywell.

Sustainable aviation fuel technology

  • JM offers process technologies for drop-in sustainable aviation fuel, including 100 percent SAF, with partners, and positions itself as helping customers launch their SAF strategy and chart a course to net-zero aviation
  • FT CANS Fischer-Tropsch technology developed with bp, which produces high-quality syncrude from biomass and waste streams; it has been chosen for what the site calls the world's largest Fischer-Tropsch SAF plant, by EDL for the HyKero plant in Germany, and has produced product for Fulcrum's Sierra waste-to-fuels plant
  • HyCOgen and FT CANS technologies selected for the Repsol and Aramco synthetic fuel plant in Bilbao, and support for carbon-negative renewable diesel at the Strategic Biofuels project in Louisiana
  • BioForming technology from Virent and Johnson Matthey, which helped power the world's first transatlantic commercial flight on 100 percent drop-in SAF
  • Analysis of SAF pricing factors, covering production costs, regulation and technology breakthroughs

Wider business

Johnson Matthey's portfolio includes catalyst screening and optimisation, chemical intermediate technologies, purification for syngas production, catalyst-coated membranes for hydrogen, clean air catalysts and PGM circularity. Its technologies help customers decarbonise, cut harmful emissions and improve sustainability, and the company publishes the Johnson Matthey Technology Review, an annual report and sustainability reporting, with shares listed in London under JMAT.

Shows

Johnson Matthey appears in the sponsor lists of the Sustainable Aviation Futures MENA Congress 2027, where it is listed as a gold sponsor.

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Location

5th Floor, 2 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7AD, United Kingdom

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Events where Johnson Matthey exhibits

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  • Sustainable Aviation Futures MENA Congress

    1 to 3 February 2027 · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Gold Sponsorlisted for the 2026 edition

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