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ArcticZymes Technologies Investor Presentation 2021

Jan 28, 2021

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Q4 2020

Agenda

Highlights Q4 2020

ArcticZymes Update

BetaGlucans Divestment

Q4 Financials

Outlook 2021 and Beyond

Highlights

Highlights Q4 2020 Company has undergone a significant transformation

Achieved 2nd best quarterly performance – 22.1 MNOK sales*

Therapeutics and molecular segments continue to grow

ArcticZymes Technologies becomes a pure enzymes company

Achieved another profitable quarter – 6.8 MNOK EBITDA* Biotec BetaGlucans successfully divested

4 *All key financial figures are excluding discontinued operations (Biotec BetaGlucans)

Deliverables 2020

All about value creation

Achieved profitability: 45 MNOK EBITDA

Sale growth achieved: 93 MNOK

Rebranded company to ArcticZymes Technologies

Became a pure enzyme company by divesting BBG

Created shareholder value through the share

Merger & acquisition – not achieved

ArcticZymes Update

ArcticZymes Updates

Commercial Segment Sales

Therapeutics

  • ✓ Strong quarterly growth
  • ✓ 41% contribution to total Q4 sales
  • ✓ Several customers: purchased >5 MNOK of products during 2020
  • ✓ ReiThera is progressing well
  • ✓ Top tier pharma company starts purchasing SAN-HQ

Research & Diagnostics

  • ✓ Marginal quarterly growth
  • ✓ 59% contribution to total Q4 sales
  • ✓ Molecular diagnostics (MDx) sales is main driver
  • ✓ Molecular research sales are slow due to lockdowns
  • ✓ Sales growth is robust served by 200+ customers

ArcticZymes Updates Coronavirus related sales

  • Integral part of underlying business
  • Coronavirus related sales higher for Q4 vs. Q3
  • 32% contribution of total Q4 sales
  • Coronavirus related sales breakdown:
    • 86% associates with MDx
    • 14% associates with Therapeutics
  • Quarterly fluctuations to continue

ArcticZymes Update Innovation Pipeline

Salt Active Nuclease Upscaling*

  • First medium-scale pilot production batch was successful
  • Working on first large-scale pilot batch
  • Large scale SAN-HQ product commercially available within H1 2021
  • Anticipate several new products will be ready to launch in 2021
    • M-SAN ELISA kit: Similar to SAN-HQ, the M-SAN ELISA kit will support sales our M-SAN enzyme to the therapeutic segment
    • Taq Polymerase: 1 st thermostable polymerase optimised for robust utility in viral based PCR tests and compatible with our other enzymes*
    • Reverse Transcriptase: Similar to Taq Polymerase it will be optimised for use in viral diagnostics assays for both PCR and LAMP based workflows*
    • Other SAN products: capture more of the value chain beyond gene therapy and vaccine production
    • Other enzymes: several customer specific innovation projects
  • Longer-term innovations are making progress as well

*Above are partially funded by Innovation Norway grants

ArcticZymes Update Strategic Growth Initiatives

Organic Growth

  • Represents main and immediate focus
  • Key activity for 2021 will be to complete the infrastructure expansion of R&D and operations
  • The project is well underway and progressing as planned
  • Continue to invest in new R&D and operational personnel
  • All about investing to leverage future growth

Inorganic Growth

  • M&A activities have been scaled back temporarily
  • Allows team to focus on the ongoing organic growth expansion initiatives
  • Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the market environment at this time is far from ideal

BetaGlucans Divestment

Biotec BetaGlucans (BBG)

Divesture successfully closed

  • Entire BBG subsidiary divested to Lallemand Inc´s subsidiary, Danstar Ferment AG
  • Deal was closed on 31st December 2020
  • ArcticZymes Technologies will support Lallemand during 2021 in managing a smooth transition
  • BBG will gradually relocated to the Nordøya site
  • Supports our strategy to focus exclusively on its profitable enzyme business
  • ArcticZymes Technologies enters 2021 as a pure enzymes company

Q4 Financials

Positive development

  • Sales growth of 35% compared to same quarter last year
  • Therapeutics segment (SAN) continues to deliver strong sales: 9.0 MNOK (3.8)
    • Underlying growth is strong
  • Research & Diagnostics increase of 4% from 12.6 MNOK to 13.1 MNOK
    • Significant positive COVID-19 impact
    • rSAP for research segment, negatively impacted by COVID-19

Sales per segment

ArcticZymes Sales Q4 2020

Covid-19 impact is estimated at 28%of annual sales

Estimated Covid-19 related sales

ArcticZymes Technologies

Growth in sales and expenses

  • 35% improvement in sales (MNOK 22.1 vs 16.3)
  • 39% improvement in EBITDA (MNOK 6.8 vs 4.9)
  • Expenses increased by 3.9 MNOK
    • Increase in personnel
    • Divestment related expenses
    • Increase in property, plant and equipment related expense
    • IPR

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Note.Biotec BetaGlucans considered discontinued operations and excluded from EBITDA calculations. Presented as a separate line under net profit

Cash Flow

Divestment of BBG contributed with 70 MNOK in Q4

Outlook 2021 & Beyond

Outlook 2021 and Beyond

A new era as a pure enzymes company

New Innovations

Becoming Europe's leading one-stopshop enzyme supplier in next 2-3 years

Thank you!