Johnson Matthey promoting environmental protection and sustainability via Israeli innovation

"We hope that Israel creates such a vibrant development community that we will develop more and more technologies that we can deploy all around the world. Many of the problems that society's facing are global challenges and we want to be part of the solution," Maurits van Tol, Chief Technology Officer at Johnson Matthey said on Monday during Calcalist and ESIL Technologies’ Sustainability and Innovation Week.

Johnson Matthey, which has a $17 billion turnover and 14,000 employees, is a British multinational speciality chemicals and sustainable technologies company. According to van Tol, 86% of the company's sales are related to the UN’s sustainable development goals.

"We provide catalytic converters for cars, for trucks, for marine applications, and static applications. But we're also very active in the hydrogen space, for example, hydrogen production, blue hydrogen, now moving into green hydrogen. And all kinds of technologies for the production of methanol that can help with the production of fertilizers. So we're a technology and catalyst provider in the sustainability technology space," explained van Tol.

Johnson Matthey is active in Israel and works in cooperation with ESIL Technologies' innovation lab in promoting environmental protection and sustainability.

"ESIL for us is really important as a window on the world in the innovation space, in the sustainability area. And it's of course connecting very strong partners, like Bazan, EDF and ourselves," added van Tol. "We hope to grow that ecosystem together through ESIL as a connecting vehicle. We want to make sure that this planet can continue to be inhabited in a very safe way by many more generations. And if we can contribute, through ESIL, then we'd love to do that."