Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells (JMFC) has established a state of the art fuel cell component manufacturing facility at Swindon in the UK. The facility has been built to give JMFC a leading position as a producer of membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) to the highly demanding quality requirements of fuel cell customers.
A 40,000m2 greenfield site in Swindon, UK was acquired in 2001 and manufacturing began at the beginning of 2004. The facility, which occupies a third of the area of the site, has been fitted out with equipment to produce hundreds of thousands of MEAs per year of ‘typical’ automotive size (500cm2) operating on a single shift basis. Full planning permissions have been obtained and infrastructure installed for rapid future expansion.
MEA assembly takes place in a humidity-controlled environment to enable a high degree of process control and product reproducibility.
The product range includes:
- Pre-cut substrates
- Base-layer coated substrates
- Catalyst coated substrates (catalysed electrodes)
- Catalyst coated membranes (3 layer MEA)
- 5 layer MEAs
- 7 layer MEAs incorporating edge protection
