Our Division: Fine Chemicals

Johnson Matthey’s Fine Chemicals Division provides an unusual blend of custom pharmaceutical research, development and manufacturing services through its Custom Development and Manufacturing offering. The Fine Chemicals Division is built on a 200-year history that has always had technology and innovation at its core. The company moved into pharmaceuticals around 40 years ago, and today provides API development services from pre-clinical through commercialisation, supported through an extensive portfolio of differentiating technologies.

The Custom Development and Manufacturing offering draws on the Fine Chemicals Division’s three other core offerings – APIs and Life Cycle Management, Catalysts, and Controlled Substances – to deliver this unique combination of knowledge and speed during development stages, as well as security of supply during commercialisation.

Johnson Matthey’s scientists work collaboratively across the Division’s network of facilities in the US, Europe and China. These include a GMP compliant facility in Devens, Massachusetts, which provides development services including solid form development, process and analytical development, and scale-up in its kilo labs and pilot plant. Larger volumes are transferred to the full-scale manufacturing plants in West Deptford (New Jersey) and Conshohocken (Pennsylvania), both of which are GMP compliant. The Fine Chemicals Division also has kilo labs and pilot plant operations in Yantai, China, and two full-scale manufacturing facilities in Scotland, UK.

The Fine Chemicals Division has an unusually broad range of specialist technologies that provide a substantial toolkit for diverse complex chemistries. They include an unmatched portfolio of chiral and catalyst technologies, with both chemocatalysis and biocatalysis platforms; significant experience in handling highly potent APIs and controlled substances; expertise in antibody drug-conjugate and polymer-conjugate technologies; chromatography from small- to large-scale; and process and analytical technologies and solid form sciences.