An error occurred while processing the template.
The following has evaluated to null or missing:
==> .vars['reserved-article-group-id']  [in template "161555#161602#ARTICLE-PAGE---HERO" at line 14, column 20]

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FTL stack trace ("~" means nesting-related):
	- Failed at: #assign groupId = .vars["reserved-art...  [in template "161555#161602#ARTICLE-PAGE---HERO" at line 14, column 1]
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1<#assign namespace = randomNamespace /> 
2<#assign JSONFactoryUtil = staticUtil["com.liferay.portal.kernel.json.JSONFactoryUtil"] /> 
3<#assign journalArticleLocalService = serviceLocator.findService("com.liferay.journal.service.JournalArticleLocalService") /> 
4<#assign containerId = randomNamespace /> 
5<#assign shareURL = themeDisplay.getPortalURL()+themeDisplay.getURLCurrent()/> 
6 
7<#-- Auto-assign ALL category to every article --> 
8<#assign assetCategoryLocalService = serviceLocator.findService("com.liferay.asset.kernel.service.AssetCategoryLocalService") /> 
9<#assign assetEntryLocalService = serviceLocator.findService("com.liferay.asset.kernel.service.AssetEntryLocalService") /> 
10<#assign journalArticleLocalService = serviceLocator.findService("com.liferay.journal.service.JournalArticleLocalService") /> 
11  
12<#-- Get current JournalArticle --> 
13<#assign articleId = .vars['reserved-article-id'].data /> 
14<#assign groupId = .vars['reserved-article-group-id'].data?number /> 
15<#assign journalArticle = journalArticleLocalService.getArticle(groupId, articleId) /> 
16  
17<#-- Get AssetEntry for this article --> 
18<#assign assetEntry = assetEntryLocalService.getEntry("com.liferay.journal.model.JournalArticle", journalArticle.getResourcePrimKey()) /> 
19  
20<#-- Your ALL category ID --> 
21<#assign allCategoryId = 4614994 /> 
22  
23<#-- Assign ALL category if not already set --> 
24<#if !assetEntry.getCategories()?seq_contains(assetCategoryLocalService.getCategory(allCategoryId))> 
25    <#assign categoryIds = assetEntry.getCategoryIds() + [allCategoryId] /> 
26    ${assetEntryLocalService.updateEntry( 
27        assetEntry.getUserId(), 
28        assetEntry.getGroupId(), 
29        assetEntry.getClassName(), 
30        assetEntry.getClassPK(), 
31        assetEntry.getUuid(), 
32        assetEntry.getClassTypeId(), 
33        categoryIds, 
34        assetEntry.getTagNames() 
35    )} 
36</#if> 
37 
38<div class="hero jmarticle__hero-main-container"> 
39    <div class="container"> 
40        <div class="row"> 
41            <div class="article__cont"> 
42                <h1 class="article__heading">${Title.getData()}</h1> 
43                <#if (SubTitle.getData())??> 
44                    <p class="article__para"> 
45                        ${SubTitle.getData()} 
46                    </p> 
47                </#if> 
48 
49                <#assign Date_Data=getterUtil.getString(Date.getData())> 
50                <#if validator.isNotNull(Date_Data)> 
51                    <p class="article__date"> 
52                        <#assign Date_DateObj=dateUtil.parseDate("yyyy-MM-dd", Date_Data, locale)> 
53                        ${dateUtil.getDate(Date_DateObj, "dd MMMM yyyy", locale)} 
54                    </p> 
55                </#if> 
56 
57                <#if Link_Title?? && Link_Title.getData()?has_content> 
58                    <#list Link_Title.getSiblings() as cur_Link_Title> 
59						<#if cur_Link_Title?? && cur_Link_Title.getData()?has_content> 
60							<#assign linkHref="#" /> 
61							<#assign target="" /> 
62							 
63							<#assign rowId = containerId + cur_Link_Title?index /> 
64							<#if cur_Link_Title.Link_Internal?? && cur_Link_Title.Link_Internal.getFriendlyUrl()?has_content> 
65								<#assign linkHref=cur_Link_Title.Link_Internal.getFriendlyUrl() /> 
66							<#elseif cur_Link_Title.Link_Media?? && cur_Link_Title.Link_Media.getData()?has_content> 
67								<#assign linkHref=cur_Link_Title.Link_Media.getData() /> 
68							<#elseif cur_Link_Title.Link_Mailto?? && cur_Link_Title.Link_Mailto.getData()?has_content> 
69								<#assign linkHref="mailto:" + cur_Link_Title.Link_Mailto.getData() /> 
70							<#elseif cur_Link_Title.Link_External?? && cur_Link_Title.Link_External.getData()?has_content> 
71								<#assign linkHref=cur_Link_Title.Link_External.getData() /> 
72							</#if> 
73							<#if (cur_Link_Title.Link_Target??) && (cur_Link_Title.Link_Target.getData())?has_content> 
74								<#assign target=cur_Link_Title.Link_Target.getData() /> 
75							</#if> 
76							<div id="blue_button_click_div" data-analytics-asset-type="custom"> 
77								<div class="jmarticle__hero-btn-list"> 
78									<a id="panel_blue_button_${rowId}" class="article__btn" href="${linkHref}" title="${cur_Link_Title.getData()}" target="${target}" data-analytics-asset-action="click" onclick="onBlueButtonClick(this)" > 
79										<span class="btn__text">${cur_Link_Title.getData()}</span> 
80										<span class="arrow__forward"></span> 
81									</a> 
82								</div> 
83							</div> 
84						</#if> 
85					</#list> 
86                </#if> 
87				  <div class="article-download-share"> 
88                
89                    <#if PDFTitle?? && PDFTitle.getData()?has_content> 
90                        <#assign title = PDFTitle.getData() /> 
91                        <#assign pdf_link = "#" /> 
92                        <#assign pdfrowId = containerId /> 
93                        <#if PDFTitle.PDF?? && PDFTitle.PDF.getData()?has_content> 
94                            <#assign pdf_link = PDFTitle.PDF.getData() /> 
95                        </#if> 
96                        <div class="article-download"> 
97                            <div id="blue_button_click_div" data-analytics-asset-type="custom"> 
98                                <div class="jmarticle__hero-btn-list"> 
99                                    <a id="panel_blue_button_${pdfrowId}" class="article__btn" href="${pdf_link}" title="${title}" data-analytics-asset-action="click" onclick="onBlueButtonClick(this)"> 
100                                        <span class="btn__text">${title}</span> 
101                                        <span class="arrow__forward"></span> 
102                                    </a> 
103                                   <a id="panel_blue_button_${pdfrowId}" class="article__btn-mobile" href="${pdf_link}"             title="${title}" data-analytics-asset-action="click" onclick="onBlueButtonClick(this)"> 
104                                       <img src="${themeDisplay.getPathThemeImages()}/new__jm__images/download-white-icon.svg" alt="twitter image"/> 
105                                    </a> 
106                                </div> 
107                            </div> 
108                        </div> 
109                    </#if> 
110                                 
111                </div> 
112                 
113            </div> 
114        </div> 
115       <#if (ImageLarge.getData())?? && ImageLarge.getData() != ""> 
116            <div class="row jmarticle__hero-banner" id="jmarticle__hero-${namespace}"  
117            style="background-image: url(${ImageLarge.getData()})"> 
118        </#if> 
119 
120        </div> 
121    </div> 
122</div> 
123 
124<#if Author?? && Author.getData()?has_content> 
125    <div class="jmarticle__author-info"> 
126        <div class="container"> 
127            <div class="hero__bar"> 
128                     <#list Author.getSiblings() as cur_Author> 
129                            <#if cur_Author?? && cur_Author.getData()?has_content> 
130                                <#assign 
131                                    webContentData = jsonFactoryUtil.createJSONObject(cur_Author.getData()) 
132                                    gId = groupId 
133                                    journalArticle = journalArticleLocalService.getArticleByUrlTitle(gId, webContentData.title) 
134                                    docXML = saxReaderUtil.read(journalArticle.getContent()) 
135 
136                                    fName = docXML.valueOf("//dynamic-element[@name='FullName']/dynamic-content/text()") 
137                                    jobTitle = docXML.valueOf("//dynamic-element[@name='JobTitle']/dynamic-content/text()") 
138                                    role = docXML.valueOf("//dynamic-element[@name='ContactInfo']/dynamic-content/text()") 
139                                    photoXML = docXML.valueOf("//dynamic-element[@name='Photo']/dynamic-content/text()") 
140                                    photoSrc = JSONFactoryUtil.createJSONObject(photoXML).getString("uuid") 
141                                    fullName = docXML.valueOf("//dynamic-element[@name='Title']/dynamic-content/text()") 
142                                    authorImageXML = docXML.valueOf("//dynamic-element[@name='ImageLarge']/dynamic-content/text()") 
143                                    authImageSrc = JSONFactoryUtil.createJSONObject(authorImageXML).getString("uuid") 
144                                    summary = docXML.valueOf("//dynamic-element[@name='Summary']/dynamic-content/text()") 
145                                /> 
146 
147                                    <div class="author"> 
148                                        <figure class="author__image"> 
149                                            <#if authImageSrc?? && authImageSrc?has_content> 
150                                                <img src="/documents/${groupId}/${authImageSrc}" alt="${fullName}" class="author_img_class_new"> 
151                                            <#elseif photoSrc?? && photoSrc?has_content> 
152                                                <img src="/documents/${groupId}/${photoSrc}" alt="${fName}" class="author_img_class_new"> 
153                                            </#if> 
154                                        </figure> 
155                                        <div class="author__details d-flex flex-column"> 
156                                            <h3 class="author__name"> 
157                                                <a rel="author"> 
158                                                    <#if fullName?? && fullName?has_content> 
159                                                        ${fullName} 
160                                                    <#elseif fName?? && fName?has_content> 
161                                                        ${fName} 
162                                                    </#if> 
163                                                </a> 
164                                            </h3> 
165                                            <p class="author__desc text-size-a author_job_title"> 
166                                                <#if jobTitle?? && jobTitle?has_content> 
167                                                    ${jobTitle} 
168                                                </#if> 
169                                            </p> 
170                                            <span> 
171                                                <p class="author__desc text-size-a"> 
172                                                    <#if summary?? && summary?has_content> 
173                                                        ${summary} 
174                                                    </#if> 
175                                                    <#if role?? && role?has_content> 
176                                                        ${role} 
177                                                    </#if> 
178                                                </p> 
179                                            </span> 
180                                        </div> 
181                                        <div> 
182                                            <div class="author__contact"> 
183                                                <ul class="author__contact-list"> 
184                                                </ul> 
185                                            </div> 
186                                        </div> 
187                                    </div> 
188                             </#if> 
189                     </#list> 
190            </div> 
191    	</div> 
192    </div> 
193</#if> 
194 
195 
196 
197<div class="container"> 
198    <div class="row"> 
199        <div class="article__intro"> 
200            <#if (Introduction.getData())??> 
201            	${Introduction.getData()} 
202            </#if> 
203 
204           <div class="article-download-share"> 
205                
206                    <#if PDFTitle?? && PDFTitle.getData()?has_content> 
207                        <#assign title = PDFTitle.getData() /> 
208                        <#assign pdf_link = "#" /> 
209                        <#assign pdfrowId = containerId /> 
210                        <#if PDFTitle.PDF?? && PDFTitle.PDF.getData()?has_content> 
211                            <#assign pdf_link = PDFTitle.PDF.getData() /> 
212                        </#if> 
213                        <div class="article-download"> 
214                            <div id="blue_button_click_div" data-analytics-asset-type="custom"> 
215                                <div class="jmarticle__hero-btn-list"> 
216                                    <a id="panel_blue_button_${pdfrowId}" class="article__btn" href="${pdf_link}" title="${title}" data-analytics-asset-action="click" onclick="onBlueButtonClick(this)"> 
217                                        <span class="btn__text">${title}</span> 
218                                        <span class="arrow__forward"></span> 
219                                    </a> 
220                                   <a id="panel_blue_button_${pdfrowId}" class="article__btn-mobile" href="${pdf_link}"             title="${title}" data-analytics-asset-action="click" onclick="onBlueButtonClick(this)"> 
221                                       <img src="${themeDisplay.getPathThemeImages()}/new__jm__images/download-white-icon.svg" alt="twitter image"/> 
222                                    </a> 
223                                </div> 
224                            </div> 
225                        </div> 
226                    </#if>               
227                
228                   
229               <div class="article-share"> 
230                   <a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=${shareURL}&title=<#if (Title.getData())??>${Title.getData()}</#if>" target="_blank"> 
231                       <img class="socialicons__img" src="${themeDisplay.getPathThemeImages()}/new__jm__images/social_icons-LinkedIN.png" alt="twitter image"/> 
232                    </a> 
233                      <a  href="https://twitter.com/share?url=${shareURL}&text=<#if (Title.getData())??>${Title.getData()}</#if>" target="_blank"> 
234                       <img class="socialicons__img" src="${themeDisplay.getPathThemeImages()}/new__jm__images/social_icons-Twitter.png" alt="twitter image"/> 
235                    </a> 
236                </div> 
237            </div> 
238       
239        </div> 
240    </div> 
241</div> 
242 
243<style> 
244    img.author_img_class_new { 
245        width: 100% !important; 
246        height: 100% !important; 
247        position: absolute; 
248        margin: auto; 
249        top: 0; 
250        bottom: 0; 
251
252     
253    .article__btn:focus-visible { 
254    outline: 2px solid blue !important; 
255
256 
257@media (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 650px) { 
258	.article__intro li { 
259	   margin-left: -32px !important;		 
260
261	.journal-content-article .container .article__intro { 
262    margin-top: 22px !important; 
263
264
265@media (min-width: 540px) and (max-width: 834px) { 
266    .article__intro li { 
267	      margin-left: -32px !important;		 
268
269    .article__intro { 
270        margin: 60px 15px 0 5px !important;         
271
272
273  
274@media (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 539px){ 
275.jmarticle__author-info { 
276    padding: 0px 0; 
277
278.jmarticle__author-info .author__image { 
279    width: 39px; 
280    height: 40px; 
281
282 
283.jmarticle__author-info .author__name a { 
284    line-height: 0px; 
285    font-size: 18px !important; 
286    margin-right: 10px; 
287
288 
289.jmarticle__author-info .author__desc { 
290     
291    line-height: 14px; 
292    font-size: 12px !important; 
293    margin-bottom: 7px; 
294
295
296  
297</style> 

Johnson Matthey will hold its Annual General Meeting today at 11.00 am in London and has issued the following trading update ahead of the meeting. 

In the first quarter, sales were flat at constant currency. Sales growth in Clean Air was offset by lower sales in Efficient Natural Resources and Health, whilst New Markets was broadly flat. 

Our full year guidance for the group at constant rates remains unchanged, with performance more heavily weighted to the second half.

Clean Air

Clean Air delivered robust sales growth in the first quarter. In a market where vehicle production declined by 6%, our European Light Duty business outperformed and grew sales double digit, driven by the annualisation of our diesel share gains and increasing fitment of gasoline particulate filters. In aggregate the rest of Clean Air was broadly flat. In 2019/20 we now expect operating profit to be slightly below the prior year. This reflects higher than anticipated short term costs to serve the strong growth in our European Light Duty business, partly caused by phasing of the completion of our new plant in Poland, and the impact of a delay to the timing of the implementation of China VI legislation.

Efficient Natural Resources

Sales in Efficient Natural Resources were down moderately. This was principally due to phasing in Catalyst Technologies where sales of methanol were lower following strong demand in the prior year, and also in additives, which was weaker due to a planned maintenance shutdown at one of our plants. Pgm Services saw good sales growth driven by higher average pgm prices and looking forward we expect a strong second half with good progress on the benefits from actions taken to improve efficiency. For 2019/20 we now expect better performance in Efficient Natural Resources and continue to anticipate sales growth with operating profit growth ahead of sales.

Health

In Health, sales were lower as expected. Our Generics business was weaker due to lower sales of APIs as they moved through their natural lifecycle. This was partly offset by increased sales in our Innovators business which benefited from our partnership with Immunomedics. The savings associated with the optimisation of our manufacturing footprint are progressing as planned. Our outlook for broadly stable sales and double digit operating profit growth in 2019/20 is unchanged, although the phasing of sales will be more weighted to the second half.

New Markets

Sales in New Markets were broadly flat. Progress in the testing and commercialisation of eLNO® is continuing according to plan. We continue to expect sales and operating profit growth in this sector for 2019/20.

Working capital

Working capital remains a key focus for the group. We are making the progress we anticipated on reducing the precious metal working capital, which resulted from the unscheduled downtime in one of our pgm refineries in 2018/19.

Outlook

Our group guidance, at constant rates, for the year ended 31st March 2020 remains unchanged. We expect growth in operating performance at constant rates to be within our medium term guidance of mid to high single digit growth.

  • In terms of phasing, we expect performance to be more heavily weighted to the second half.
  • By sector, Clean Air performance is now expected to be slightly below the prior year. This is expected to be compensated by better performance in Efficient Natural Resources driven by actions taken to improve efficiency, and other ongoing efficiencies across the group.

At current foreign exchange rates (£:$ 1.268, £:€ 1.114, £:RMB 8.71) translational foreign exchange movements for the year ending 31st March 2020 are expected to benefit sales by £75 million and  underlying operating profit by £12 million.

Capital Markets Day

We will hold a Capital Markets Day on Thursday 19th September 2019 in London.

Enquiries

Investor Relations
Martin Dunwoodie, Director of Investor Relations, 020 7269 8241
Louise Curran, Senior Investor Relations Manager, 020 7269 8235
Jane Crosby, Investor Relations Manager, 020 7269 8242

Media
Sally Jones, Director of Corporate Relations, 020 7269 8407
David Allchurch, Tulchan Communications, 020 7353 4200  

 

eLNO is a trade mark of Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company