Case study Building partnership and assisting change: an Acas workplace project at Johnson Matthey, Clitheroe A case study of an Acas workplace project which resulted in vast improvements to management/union/employee communication and consultation, within the context of a larger scale change programme. Background Johnson Matthey plc is a speciality chemicals company which processes and manufactures precious metals, catalysts and speciality chemicals. It has seventeen sites in the UK, one of which is in Clitheroe, Lancashire, which emplo yees around 200 full-time staff. The site was previously one of two owned by ICI Synetix, one of 27 offshoot companies which emerged from the breakup of ICI. Following the acquisition of Synetix from ICI in November 2002, Chemicals and Synetix

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