Disposal

Johnson Matthey PLC
01 March 2007






                 For release at 7.00am Thursday 1st March 2007



                    Completion of Sale of Ceramics Division





Johnson Matthey announces that it has today completed the sale of its Ceramics
Division to the Endeka Ceramics group established by Pamplona Capital Partners
I, LP, a private equity investment fund.



This completes the transaction which was first announced on 14th December 2006.





Enquiries:
Ian Godwin            Director, IR and Corporate Communications    020 7269 8410
Howard Lee            The HeadLand Consultancy                     020 7367 5225
www.matthey.com




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