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Newburyport, MA and West Chester, PA (February 2, 2016) — Chiral Technologies, Inc., part of DAICEL CORPORATION, the global market leader in enantioselective chromatography, announced they will begin selling Daicel’s chiral reagents in the U.S. and Europe exclusively through Strem Chemicals, Inc.

Daicel Corporation will launch a series of chiral reagents that include chiral ligands, chiral auxiliaries, and chiral starting materials. Due to Daicel’s proprietary knowledge for chiral separation and analysis, these chiral reagents are guaranteed to be greater than or equal to 99% e.e.

“Chiral Technologies is proud to work with Strem Chemicals on this worldwide launch as they are the leader in sales and distribution of chiral reagents and chiral catalysts. Strem brings their world-class distribution system and knowledge of the chiral materials field to this collaboration,” stated Joseph Barendt, Ph.D., Chiral Technologies’ Chief Operating Officer.

Ephraim Honig, Ph.D., M.B.A., Chief Operating Officer of Strem Chemicals stated, “Partnering with Chiral Technologies allows us to offer an expanded range of high purity and high quality chiral products from a world leader which should help our customers solve their synthesis challenges more efficiently.

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About Strem Chemicals, Inc.

Strem Chemicals, Inc., established in 1964, is a privately held manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals of high purity. Strem’s key products include catalysts, ligands, organometallics, metal carbonyls, CVD and ALD precursors and nanomaterials. Its products are used for research and development and commercial scale applications, especially in the pharmaceutical, microelectronics, chemicals and petrochemicals industries. Strem Chemicals also provides custom synthesis, process development and cGMP manufacturing services. For more information, visit www.strem.com.

Contact:

Strem Chemicals, Inc.
7 Mulliken Way
Newburyport, MA 01950, USA
(800) 64-STREM
Contact: press@strem.com

Strem Chemicals, Inc.
15, rue de l'Atome, Z.I.
67800 BISCHHEIM, France
+33 (03) 88 62 52 60

About Chiral Technologies, Inc.

Chiral Technologies, the global leader in enantioselective chromatography, serves pharmaceutical and other life science industries and offers the largest portfolio of chiral stationary phases (CSPs) and analytical and preparative chiral columns for the separation of racemic mixtures into single enantiomers. The company also provides analytical method development and custom separation services. The North and Latin American markets are served through Chiral Technologies, Inc. (West Chester, Pa.), the European market through Chiral Technologies Europe SAS (Illkirch, France), and the Asian market through Daicel Chiral Technologies India and Daicel Chiral Technologies China, all wholly owned subsidiaries of Daicel Corporation.  Learn more at www.chiraltech.com and www.daicelchiraltech.cn.

CHIRAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.

800 North Five Points Road
West Chester, PA 19380
(800) 6-CHIRAL
Lorraine Evangelista, Manager, Marketing Services
chiral@chiraltech.com
www.chiraltech.com

CHIRAL TECHNOLOGIES EUROPE
Parc d’Innovation – 160, Bd Gonthier d’Andernach – CS 80140
67404 Illkirch Cedex France
+33 (0) 3 88 79 5200
Brian Freer, Ph.D., Sales and Marketing Manager
cte@chiral.fr
www.chiraltech.com

DAICEL CHIRAL TECHNOLOGIES (INDIA) PVT. LTD
Lab No. 4A, Phase III, IKP Knowledge Park
Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet, Ranga Reddy
Dist. Hyderabad-500 078, Telangana
+91-40-2338-3700
chiral@chiral.daicel.com
www.chiraltech.com

DAICEL CHIRAL TECHNOLOGIES (CHINA) CO., LTD.
No. 32, HeXiang Road
Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone
Post Code 200131
Shanghai, China
+86 21 504 60086
chiral@ctc.daicel.com
www.daicelchiraltech.cn