owned company founded 1964 founder michael strem headquarters newburyport massachusetts u.s. area served international products fine chemicals inorganic compounds services cgmp facilities website www.strem.com strem at newburyport strem chemicals inc. is an employee owned company specializing in fine chemicals in newburyport massachusetts united states . it was established in 1964 by michael strem who remains president . while michael strem was a graduate student he spent time in dr. irving wender s laboratory learning to synthesize and use cobalt carbonyl . they discussed setting up a chemical company which resulted in strem chemicals . 1 later cobalt carbonyl became strem chemical s first commercial product . 2 strem chemicals manufactures and markets specialty chemicals of high purity provides custom synthesis and cgmp manufacturing services and supplies about 4 500 specialty products in the area of metals inorganics organometallics and nanomaterials . strem chemicals supports the american chemical society award for distinguished service in the advancement of inorganic chemistry and the canadian society for chemistry award for pure or applied chemistry . 3 references edit http www.strem.com uploads resources documents chemiker22.pdf http www.strem.com about http www.strem.com uploads news documents stremsponsorsinnovation awards.pdf this industry related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title strem chemicals & oldid 705379353 categories research support companieschemical companies of the united statescompanies based in massachusettscompanies based in essex county massachusettsindustry stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 february 2016 at 03 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view