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Gold/Mining/Energy : Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ptaskmaster who wrote (22)	9/21/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: Ptaskmaster	Respond to of 529

Johnson Matthey is the sole marketing agent for Amplats and the largest distributor of platinum group metals in the world. The company has restructured its old homepage, which is now in my opinion much more user friendly: matthey.com In the process it has spun off fourteen (14) separate websites, accessible through a drop-down box on the homepage, each dedicated to their business divisions and/or major areas of activity: Advanced Polymers Alfa Aesar Chemicals and Refining Colours & Coatings Crystar Electronics Environmental Products Hydrogen Technology Group Matthey Electronics UK Medical Products Metal Joining Microbial Systems Int. Noble Metals Thermal Management "The group's principal activities are the manufacture of catalysts and pollution control systems, pharmaceutical compounds, process catalysts and speciality chemicals; the refining, fabrication and marketing of precious metals; the manufacture of electronic materials; the production of advanced multilayer printed circuit boards and plastic laminate packages for semiconductors; and the manufacture of decorative and specialised materials for the ceramic industries." With regard to the Platinum Group Metals: "The Platinum group consists of Johnson Matthey's platinum marketing operations and worldwide platinum fabrication activities. The marketing operations, headquartered in London and with supporting facilities in Philadelphia and Hong Kong, carry out the marketing of precious metals, particularly the output of Amplats, the Anglo American Group's platinum company. Amplats is the world's largest producer of platinum. Johnson Matthey is the sole marketing agent for Amplats and is the world's largest distributor of platinum group metals. This important relationship with Amplats dates from 1929. "Johnson Matthey's platinum fabrication business makes a wide range of platinum group metal products such as gauze for the production of nitric acid for fertilisers, thermocouples for measuring temperature, components for glass manufacturers and the laboratory and medical parts for implants such as heart pacemakers. The business has developed proprietary technology for coating platinum group metals on a wide range of substrates, such as ceramics (ACT™), and also for forming iridium and iridium alloys into a variety of specialised components (fIreform™). Johnson Matthey's main platinum fabrication facilities are in Royston, UK and West Whiteland, near Philadelphia, in the United States." The JM Noble Metals website is at noble.matthey.com And JM quotes, chart and share information is at: datastreaminsite.com (click on Search, and enter 'Johnson Matthey'). The New York listed Johnson Matthey ADR (JMPLY) represents two JM London shares, but the JMPLY quote once available on StockMaster no longer comes up.