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ArcticZymes Technologies — Interim / Quarterly Report 2017
Oct 19, 2017
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Interim / Quarterly Report
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Q3 2017 Presentation
19.10.2017, Oslo
Agenda
- Highlights
- Q3 Financials
- BetaGlucans
- Animal- and Consumer health
- Cancer
- Advanced wound care
• Enzymes
- Molecular and new markets
- Outlook
Highlights for Q3 2017
- New CEO commenced on Oct 2
- Q3 sales of NOK 14.4 mill (NOK 21.1 mill)
- EBITDA of NOK -7.3 mill (NOK -5.9 mill)
- New supply agreement for M-Gard and a renewed supply agreement for M-Glucan
- Woulgan sales of NOK 0.4 million
- ArcticZymes commercially ready to enter the Bio-manufacturing market
Q3 Financials
Financial highlights Q3 2017
| NOK million | Q3 2017 | Q3 2016 |
9M 2017 | 9M 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Enzymes | 5.6 | 6.0 | 22.9 | 21.9 |
| Sales BetaGlucans | 8.8 | 15.1 | 26.1 | 31.8 |
| Other revenues | 1.8 | 1.4 | 4.9 | 5.0 |
| Total revenues |
16.3 | 22.5 | 53.9 | 58.7 |
| Enzymes | -0.8 | -0.4 | 4.4 | 5.2 |
| BetaGlucans | -4.8 | -3.7 | -14.1 | -12.3 |
| Corporate unallocated | -1.7 | -1.8 | -6.1 | -3.9 |
| EBITDA | -7.3 | -5.9 | -15.7 | -10.9 |
| EBIT | -7.7 | -6.4 | -17.1 | -12.5 |
Cash flow and cash position
| NOK million | Q3 2017 | Q3 2016 |
9M 2017 | 9M 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating activities | -4.3 | -2.9 | -20.6 | -16.6 |
| Investing activities |
-0.9 | 0 | -3.9 | 0 |
| Financing activities |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Changes in cash and cash equivalent |
-5.3 | -3.0 | -24.5 | -16.6 |
| Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of period |
38.4 | 64.7 | 57.7 | 78.3 |
| Cash and cash equivalents at the end of period |
33.1 | 61.7 | 33.1 | 61.7 |
Beta-glucans
Beta-glucans – segment numbers
| NOK million | Q3 2017 | Q3 2016 |
9M 2017 | 9M 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Animal & Consumer Health | 8.4 | 15.1 | 24.4 | 31.6 |
| Sales Woulgan | 0.4 | 0 | 1.7 | 0.2 |
| Other revenues | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| Total revenues | 9.6 | 15.9 | 28.2 | 33.6 |
| Cost of Goods |
-5.8 | -10.1 | -15.9 | -18.8 |
| Personnel expenses |
-5.8 | -5.5 | -15.8 | -15.6 |
| Operating expenses | -2.8 | -4.0 | -10.6 | -11.4 |
| EBITDA | -4.8 | -3.7 | -14.1 | -12.3 |
| Depreciation & Amortization | -0.3 | -0.4 | -1.0 | -1.1 |
| EBIT | -5.1 | -4.1 | -15.1 | -13.4 |
Activities outside Woulgan®
Animal health
- Renewed supply agreement with largest customer
- Signed a supply agreement within the petmarket
- Sales experiences annual and seasonal fluctuations driven by demand for health feed within the aquaculture sector
Consumer Health:
- One new supply agreement for delivery of M-Gard to the US was signed
- Participated in Supply Side West, Las Vegas, end of September. Good feedback from several potential new customers
Cancer adjuvant
- About 150 patients treated with the vaccine/SBG combination at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Study increased from 145 to 185 patients
- Biotec and MSKCC continue to discuss on how to move forward
Status Woulgan®
- Third quarter sales low due to earlier stocking
- Underlying consumption of Woulgan continues to build, especially in Germany
- Continued excellent reaction from clinicians
- recognising the issue of stalled wounds
- engaging with a genuinely new and different therapy approach
- witnessing impressive results for themselves
- Making progress with market access
Highlights Germany
- Consumption of Woulgan continues to build
- Training wound nurses to support adoption
- Excellent reaction to Woulgan symposium at WundDACH congress.
- •Clinicians recognise issue of stalled wounds and engage with novel SBG treatment
- •Gained ethics approval for 2 leading centres to participate in Woulgan VLU evaluation.
- faster patient recruitment
- enhances credibility of evaluation.
Highlights UK
- •Panel upheld Biotec's Drug Tariff (DT) appeal
- •Biotec corresponding with DT in re-assessment of application
•Making good progress building additional UK evidence
Highlights Nordics
Norway
- Launched Woulgan to local wholesaler sales team
- Organizing local workshops to grow sales
Nordic region
- Recruited additional patients for case series ; on track to submit for publication 1st quarter 2018
- builds clinician support
- creates Nordic evidence
Research and Development
- Pilot plant for production of Woulgan® dry layer is being tested
- Aim to develop proprietary methods for production that can be patent protected
- Such gel-forming dry layer is well suited to more exuding- and larger surface wounds
ArcticZymes
Molecular and new markets
Enzymes – Segment Numbers
| NOK million | Q3 2017 | Q3 2016 |
9M 2017 | 9M 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales enzymes | 5.6 | 6.0 | 22.9 | 21.9 |
| Other revenues | 1.1 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
| Total revenues | 6.7 | 6.6 | 25.6 | 25.1 |
| Cost of goods | -0.1 | -0.1 | 0.2 | -0,3 |
| Personnel expenses |
-5.5 | -5.0 | -14.7 | -14.1 |
| Operating expenses | -1.8 | -1.8 | -6.7 | -5.4 |
| EBITDA | -0.8 | -0.4 | 4.4 | 5.2 |
| Depreciation & Amortization | -0.1 | -0.1 | -0.4 | -0.4 |
| EBIT | -0.9 | -0.5 | 4.0 | 4.8 |
Commercial Updates
- IsoPolTM moving forward with leading Next Generation Sequencing Companies (NGS) companies
- Early development phase
- Receiving follow-on orders
- Strategically important to enter the next phase of the NGS market early on as the leading technologies for the future are being designed and developed
- Provided a new prototype for evaluation purposes to NGS companies. Relates to next year's launch of ArcticZymes first non-enzyme based product
- Negotiations in securing new supply agreements within Molecular Diagnostics underway
Expanding into New Markets
Molecular
- ArcticZymes core market
- Customers: Molecular diagnostics and molecular kit manufacturers
- Enzymes: end up as components in final offering
- Supply: Serve via medium to large bulk orders
Bio-Manufacturing
- New market for ArcticZymes
- Customers: Bio-manufacturers of gene therapy viruses, vaccines, proteins and other bio-products
- Enzymes: are consumed during manufacturing process
- Supply: Business needs are different:
- Served by exponentially larger bulk orders
- Pricing expectations are different
- Value proposition: improve process & cost savings
Bio-Manufacturing: Gene Therapy Viruses
SAN HQ ELISA immunoassay launched
- Milestone: enables ArcticZymes to offer a complete solution
- Essential for commercial success
Key focus is gene therapy viruses
- Early phase: over 30 clinical trials ongoing
- Over 1.5\$Bil annual innovation investment (delivery systems)
August 2017
- New FDA Director endorses cell/gene therapy
- Many gene/cell therapy stocks rise 20-50%
Business opportunities for ArcticZymes
- New customer base
- 30+ prospects ongoing across key stakeholders (CMO's, academic cores, platform leaders, biotech, pharma)
- Received first order from a top 5 pharmaceutical company
Expanding the Product Range
Outlook 2017
Outlook 2017
- Commercial traction and sales in core markets for Woulgan®
- Retain position in the Animal Health market
- Building commercial platform in Consumer Health
- Launch further products in ArcticZymes including Polymerases
- Continue to widen ArcticZymes' commercial platform with new agreements, customers and markets
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