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Outsourcing

Johnson Matthey to shutter Pennsylvania facility

by Rick Mullin
April 22, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 17

Johnson Matthey says it will close its drug chemical plant in Conshohocken, Pa., by the end of the year, claiming the facility does not comport with a focus on “complex, high-value, low-volume specialty products” in its health care business. The British firm more than doubled its controlled-substance manufacturing capacity when it acquired the plant from Lonza in 2011. The closure will eliminate 80 jobs, according to Matthey.

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