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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