A factory making key components for hydrogen fuel cells is to built by Johnson Matthey to meet what it hopes will be growing demand from users of heavy-duty commercial vehicles.The £80 million investment in the so-called gigafactory, to be built at the engineering and chemicals company’s site at Royston, Hertfordshire, comes after Johnson Matthey said last year that it was winding down its electric battery operations.The FTSE 100 company said that the factory was expected to be in operation in the first half of 2024 and would “safeguard highly skilled manufacturing jobs in the UK”. Further expansion is planned as the market grows.Liam Condon, 54, chief executive of Johnson Matthey, said that fuel cells would play a key role in helping to
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