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Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies, today announced a Memorandum of Understanding with newly established Norwegian company Hystar AS, a high-tech spin-out from SINTEF, one of Europe鈥檚 largest independent research institutions. Hystar is backed by AP Ventures, a significant investor focused on breakthrough technologies in the fast-growing hydrogen industry. Under the agreement, Johnson Matthey will collaborate with Hystar to provide catalyst coated membranes (CCMs) for use in their innovative proton exchange membrane (PEM) stack and electrolyser system package, which offers a significant improvement in efficiency.

The collaboration will focus on stack development and manufacturing scale-up using CCMs provided by JM and patented cell design from Hystar. This next-generation cell design and PEM electrolyser system can improve performance by 10%, enabling greater hydrogen production or lower power consumption, ultimately reducing the costs associated with green hydrogen production.

Johnson Matthey and Hystar are committed to building the hydrogen economy by developing the next generation of PEM electrolysers. Johnson Matthey has a proven track record and strong expertise in developing innovative, high-performance coating materials and CCM solutions, building on decades of experience developing fuel cell components. In addition, as the world鈥檚 largest secondary refiner of platinum group metals, JM is well placed to drive the creation of closed loop recycling systems within the green hydrogen supply chain.

鈥淓verything we do contributes towards JM鈥檚 vision of a cleaner, healthier world, so we鈥檙e excited to be working with Hystar to take their game-changing, innovative electrolyser system to the next level鈥�, commented Eugene McKenna, Managing Director, Green Hydrogen. 鈥淭he Hystar cell design offers significant performance improvements for electrolyser users and JM鈥檚 CCMs have a much thinner, lower resistance membrane than those typically used in today鈥檚 commercial PEM systems.鈥�

鈥淛M CCMs have performed extremely well under Hystar operating conditions and we are very thrilled to have the possibility to integrate CCMs that can be produced by high volume manufacturing methods into our electrolyser platform,鈥� commented Alejandro Barnett, CTO and co-founder of Hystar. 鈥淭his is a clear game changer when it comes to improving the performance of our electrolysers even further.鈥�