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ArcticZymes Technologies Investor Presentation 2022

Aug 18, 2022

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Q2 2022

Agenda

Highlights – Q2 2022

Business Update

Financials

Outlook 2022 and Beyond

Highlights

Highlights Q2 2022

Growth trend continues

Commercial

  • ✓ Quarterly sales 14.8 MNOK (78% growth)
  • ✓ Accounts for 49% of total Q2 sales
  • ✓ Upturn in sales following pandemic continues
  • ✓ Leveraging sales in all geographical regions. Americas being largest contributor
  • ✓ Initiated the implementation of a DMF for SAN HQ for submission to the U.S. FDA

Molecular Tools (Research & Diagnostics)

  • ✓ Quarterly sales 15.5 MNOK (18% growth)
  • ✓ Accounts for 51% of total Q2 sales
  • ✓ Research and Diagnostics contribution to Q2 sales were 33% and 18%, respectively
  • ✓ Research rSAP main driver (60% contribution)
  • ✓ Diagnostics Cod UNG sales drop due to supply chain readjustment following Omicron outbreak

Commercial

Geographical Sales Contribution

• China: Sales hampered by Coronavirus lockdowns and closure of borders to receive international shipments

Global Reach Strengthened

  • Appointed Dirk Hahneiser as VP of Bus. Dev. & Marketing (pictured above)
    • Experience from Johnson & Johnson, Ecolab and Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Doubled the N. American commercial team by hiring a new Bus. Dev. Manager (Scott Frayo)

Innovations and Operations

Innovations

  • ✓ Applications Lab in Oslo (ShareLab)
    • ✓ Successfully hired 2 applications scientist
    • ✓ Focus of demonstrating utilising of AZT´s enzymes in complete workflows
  • ✓ 2022 product launches on track
  • ✓ RNA therapeutic enzymes are progressing

  • ✓ New production facility continues to increase capacity through the incremental recruitment
  • ✓ Two customer cGMP audits
    • ✓ A top 10 international pharmaceutical company
    • ✓ A leading international viral vector CDMO

Strategic Growth Initiatives

AZT remains committed to execute on its strategic growth initiatives

Organic growth

  • Ongoing recruitment drive to strengthen the organisation cross functionally continues
  • Greater competences/support in quality, regulatory, project management, cGMP product development and commercialisation are demanded to leverage potential from biomanufacturing

Inorganic growth

  • Intensive activity towards M&A
  • Established a priority list of mutually interested targets which comprises earlier and newly identified targets
  • Initial discussions are ongoing between AZT and interested targets

Financials

Sales

Currency impacts underlying growth positively

  • Sales increase of 43 % compared to same quarter last year
    • Achieved 30.4 MNOK (21.3 MNOK)
  • Currency had an estimated 2.5 MNOK positive impact on underlying sales growth in Q2 and NOK 3.1 MNOK YTD
  • Biomanufacturing (SAN)
    • 14.8 MNOK (8.4 MNOK)
    • Increase of 78% (+6.4 MNOK)
  • Molecular Tools (Research & Diagnostics)
    • 15.5 MNOK (13.1 MNOK)
    • Increase of 18% (+2.4 MNOK)

12 month rolling average quarterly sales

Growth trend continues

*not reporting on Covid-19 sales separately as of Q1 2022

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Profitability and expenses

Investments in organic growth influences our figures

Sales

  • Q2 MNOK 30.4 vs. 21.3 (+43%)
  • YTD MNOK 79.5 vs 62.2 (+28%)

EBITDA

  • Q2 MNOK 9.5 vs 6.0 (+58%)
  • YTD MNOK 37.4 vs 31.8 (+18%)
  • Expenses increased by 4.5 MNOK in Q2
    • External support and consultancy increased
    • Currency effects reduces other operating expenses by MNOK 2.0 in Q2

Cash flow

+16 MNOK in positive cash flow for Q2

Outlook

Outlook 2022 and Beyond

Remains unchanged

The Company outlook for 2022

  • Annual sales target of NOK 155 million
  • Quarterly fluctuations will continue
  • Lower contribution from coronavirus-related sales
  • Expanded innovation activities into the Oslo region
  • Further new product launches and upscaling
  • Continue to invest in talent acquisition to support short- and long-term organic growth
  • M&A activities will be a priority and with a goal to announce a deal within 2022
  • Longer-term outlook
    • The goal is to realise an annual sales potential of NOK 350 million by 2025 through organic growth

Annual Sale Target

Thank you

Q&A Session