The members of the IPA together employ nearly a quarter of a million people and have a combined turnover of over 40 billion US dollars per year.

Almazjuvelirexport (Exporter)

The State Unitary Foreign Trade Association Almazjuvelirexport (Almaz) has been in existence for about 30 years. Almaz is an import-export company focusing on the export of refined platinum group metals and precious stones, raw materials containing platinum group metals and the import of equipment for the jewellery industry. Almaz is based in Russia.

Anglo Platinum Limited (Mining & Production)

The Anglo Platinum group is the world's leading primary producer of platinum and accounts for about 42 per cent of the world’s newly mined production. It also produces other platinum group metals (PGMs) in quantities determined by their occurrence in the ores mined. Apart from platinum, PGMs comprise palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium. Nickel, copper and other base metal products are by-products of PGM operations. The group consists of the holding company (Anglo Platinum) and its wholly owned subsidiaries: Rustenburg Platinum Mines (RPM), Potgietersrust Platinums Limited (PPRust), and Lebowa Platinum Mines Limited (Leplats). Anglo Platinum's operations, including seven mines, three smelters, a base metals refinery and a precious metals refinery, are situated in the Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West Provinces of South Africa. Anglo Platinum is based in South Africa.

BASF Catalysts LLC (Fabrication)

BASF Catalysts (formerly called Engelhard Corporation) is the world’s largest catalyst company. The company’s material services segment provides precious and base metal services to its customers, including sourcing, financing, logistics support, price quotes, recycling chemical solutions and risk management. BASF Catalysts’ environmental technologies segment sells emission-control systems (such as catalytic converters) for automobiles. It also makes chemical and petroleum refining catalysts, additives and sorbents (used to make pharmaceuticals and other chemicals). In 2006 chemical giant BASF acquired Engelhard, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. BASF Catalysts LLC is based in the United States.

Impala Platinum Ltd. (Mining & Production)

Impala Platinum Holdings Limited (Implats) is in the business of mining, smelting, refining and the marketing of platinum group metals (PGMs), particularly platinum, as well as nickel, copper and cobalt. It is also involved in the secondary sourcing of PGMs through Impala Refining Services (IRS) which enables it to capitalise on the group’s competitive advantages in processing and refining. Implats produced 2.03 million ounces of platinum and 3.9 million ounces of platinum group metals in FY2007. The group's interests on the Bushveld Complex in South Africa and the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe give it an attributable reserve and resource base of 187 million ounces of platinum.
Implats employs approximately 47,000 people (including contractors) across its operations. The company has a primary listing on the JSE (IMP) and a secondary listing on the LSE (IPLA). Implats may also be traded via a sponsored level 1 ADR programme (IMPUY) in the United States.

Ishifuku Metal Industry Co. Ltd. (Fabrication)

Founded in 1930, Ishifuku refines, recovers and sells precious materials. The company deals with everything from raw materials containing precious metals to finished products. It provides more than 10,000 kinds of products to the fields of industry, medicine and jewellery. The company’s products are widely used in automobiles, electronics, semiconductors and chemicals. Ishifuku is based in Japan.

Johnson Matthey PLC (Fabrication)

Johnson Matthey is a speciality chemicals company focused on its core skills in catalysts, precious metals, fine chemicals and process technology. It is organised into three global divisions, Environmental Technologies, Precious Metal Products and Fine Chemicals & Catalysts. The group's principal activities are the manufacture of autocatalysts, heavy duty diesel catalysts and pollution control systems, catalysts and components for fuel cells, catalysts and technologies for chemical processes, fine chemicals, chemical catalysts and active pharmaceutical ingredients and the marketing, refining, and fabrication of precious metals. Johnson Matthey, based in the UK, has operations in over 30 countries and employs around 7,800 people. Its products are sold across the world to a wide range of advanced technology industries. Johnson Matthey is a FTSE 100 ranked company with a total revenue of £6,152 million and recorded profit before tax and one-off items (including discontinued operations results) of £242.6 million in the financial year to 31st March 2007.
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JSC MMC Norilsk Nickel (Mining & Production)

MMC Norilsk Nickel is the leading producer in Russia, and one of the leading producers in the world of base and precious metals. The Group is involved in prospecting, exploration, extraction, refining and metallurgical processing of minerals; production, marketing and sale of base and precious metals and other minerals; generation of operational electrical and heating energy; and manufacturing of building and construction materials. MMC Norilsk Nickel Group produces nickel, copper, cobalt, palladium, platinum and other precious metals (gold, silver), selenium, tellurium, technical sulphur, hard coal and other materials for industrial needs. MMC Norilsk Nickel is based in Russia. Domestically, it holds close to a 96 per cent market share of nickel, 55 per cent of copper and 95 per cent of cobalt production. Norilsk Nickel is one of the leaders in the national economy – its enterprises account for 4.3 per cent of the Russian exports. Its share in Russia’s GDP is 1.9 per cent and 2.8 per cent in the industrial output of the Russian Federation which accounts for 27.9 per cent of the non-ferrous industry.

Lonmin Plc. (Mining & Production)

Lonmin Plc is the world's third largest Platinum producer and the largest PGM producer with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange. It mines and refines five Platinum Group Metals (PGMs): Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Ruthenium and Iridium. Lonmin's current operations are all based in South Africa where the company operates a large mining complex at Marikana on the western limb of the Bushveld complex and a mine in Limpopo Province near Polokwane. Lonmin is a mine to metal company processing the concentrate from its mines through its Smelter, Base Metal Refinery and Precious Metal Refinery to produce final refined metal. The Company's strategy is to capture and build growth into its portfolio of high quality assets; create a culture of safe production, operational excellence and innovation; and focus on ensuring the long term sustainability of the communities impacted by its operations. Lonmin was the first Platinum major to be granted a new order mining licence in October 2006 in respect of its Marikana operations. The Company currently employs around 25,000 people.

Northam Platinum Ltd (Mining & Production)

Northam Platinum Limited (Northam), based in South Africa, wholly owns and operates the Northam mine located at the upper end of the western limb of the Bushveld Complex. It has recently signalled its intent to acquire 100 per cent of the Booysendal platinum project which is underlain by a large and well-defined platinum group minerals-bearing ore body in the eastern Bushveld. The existing Northam mine comprises underground workings at an average depth of 1,750 metres. On surface the mine operates two concentrators for treating Merensky and UG2 ore respectively, a smelter and base metals removal plant. The Northam mine, now at a mature state, produces some 325,000 oz (3PGMs + Au) annually. Northam markets its precious metals to a customer base in South Africa, North America, Europe and Japan. The Booysendal project, currently at a pre-feasibility stage of development, contains a resource of 112M oz, indicating an extended life of mine. First production at Booysendal is anticipated to start in 2010, ramping up to steady-state levels by 2013, thereby doubling the company’s output to some 650,000 oz annually. The company’s shares are listed on the JSE Limited (JSE).

Stillwater Mining Company (Mining & Production)

Stillwater Mining Company is one of the world's leading producers of platinum group metals (PGMs) and the only significant primary producer of palladium in the Western Hemisphere. The Stillwater Complex, which hosts the J-M Reef ore deposit, is located in the Beartooth Mountains in south central Montana. The PGMs in the J-M Reef consist primarily of palladium, platinum and a minor amount of rhodium. The reef also contains significant amounts of iron, copper and nickel, and trace amounts of gold and silver. Stillwater Mining makes a strong commitment to safety, the environment and excellence in producing metals dedicated to clean air. Stillwater Mining is based in the United States.

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. (Fabrication)

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. manufactures, researches and develops precious metal industrial products and precious metals bullion. Tanaka Kikinzoku International K.K. exports and sells precious metal industrial products. Tanaka Kikinzoku is based in Japan.

Umicore (Fabrication)

Umicore is a materials technology group. Its activities are centred on four business areas: Advanced Materials, Precious Metals Products and Catalysts, Precious Metals Services and Zinc Specialties. Each business area is divided into market-focused business units. Umicore's overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on the ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life. The Umicore Group has industrial operations on all continents and serves a global customer base; it generated a turnover of EUR 6.6 billion in 2005 and currently employs some 14,000 people. The company is based in Belgium.

W. C. Heraeus GmbH (Fabrication)

W. C. Heraeus GmbH is the largest managing company of the family-owned Heraeus group and processes worldwide precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum and other platinum group metals (PGMs) as well as special metals like rhenium, tantalum, niobium and beryllium, primarily to produce industrial products for the automotive, chemical, electronics, semiconductor, glass, tile and ceramic, lighting technology, petrochemistry and environment, jewellery, writing instruments, medical and pharmaceutical industries. The company has several decades of experience in industrial precious metals trading. W. C. Heraeus production and sales companies in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa cover the full range of its portfolio of high technology products from all stages of precious metals extraction, refining and distribution. W. C. Heraeus is based in Hanau, Germany.