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Hexagon Composites — Investor Presentation 2024
Feb 15, 2024
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Q4 2023
Jon Erik Engeset, CEO David Bandele, CFO
15 February 2024

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Key highlights
NOK 5 billion revenue mark passed in 2023
Hexagon Agility Record year for Mobile Pipeline – and growing
Hexagon Ragasco 21 new customers added.
5 year agreement with Saudi customer, Gasco
Hexagon Digital Wave 54% growth in 2023.
New long term UE agreement in January

Driving Energy Transformation
In 2023, our solutions enabled the avoidance of
1.5 million
metric tons of CO2 equivalents
Equal to 300,000 petroleum cars off the road for one year

Q4 financial highlights


Strong revenue growth


Revenue growth 2023 +24%



Revenue growth 2023 +54%



Revenue growth 2023 -4%

2024 - Transitioning to the X15N natural gas engine
First OEMs opened order books
Deliveries from Q3
Strong growth expected from 2025 and onwards

2024

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Hexagon Digital Wave - two generations of Mobile Pipeline modules up for recertification

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Recertification of 2014 and 2019 generation
MAE testing and requalification services performed on site without removing the cylinders


First commercial order for Hexagon Ragasco's smart cylinder - Linktra®
- · Pilot successfully completed in 2023
- A Scandinavian LPG distributor has placed its first order of 20,000 Linktra® cylinders for 2024
- · Growing interest amongst LPG distributors

Hexagon Purus:
The lion's share of the investment program is completed - now moving into the ramp-up and operational execution phase

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- · NOK 4-5bn 2025 revenue target largely supported by capacity and organizational investments already made
- · Scale effects and cost control expected to bring EBITDA above break-even in 2025
- · Hydrogen infrastructure (58% of 2023 revenue) already EBITDA profitable

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Financial highlights | Q4 2023 Hexagon Group

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· 13% revenue growth driven by Hexagon Agility and Hexagon Digital Wave
- · Solid increase in EBITDA
- Includes NOK 11 million of strategic and restructuring costs

Financial highlights | Full Year 2023* Hexagon (excl. Purus)

21% revenue growth
- Hexagon Agility Mobile Pipeline business driving growth
- Strong growth in Hexagon Digital Wave
Significant recovery in EBITDA levels:
– Back to double-digit margins when excluding strategic and restructuring costs

Hexagon Agility | Q4 2023

■ Cylinder sales to Hex Purus / Other cylinders
21% revenue growth
- Continued strong Mobile Pipeline performance
- Solid Transit bus volumes
- Higher y-o-y heavy-duty truck; and q-o-q
~2x EBITDA growth
- and high Mobile Pipeline volume
- Headwinds from mix and planned shop-floor initiatives negatively impacting cylinder production

Hexagon Agility | Full Year 2023*

■ Cylinder sales to Hex Purus /Other cylinders
24% revenue growth
- Record Mobile Pipeline sales
- Lower heavy-duty truck volumes offset partially by higher medium-duty and refuse truck
- Strong growth in sales of cylinders to Hexagon Purus
Margins recovering:
- Cost-adjusted pricing effective
- Pace of recovery slowed by relatively low truck volumes
- Offset partly by Mobile Pipeline volumes

Hexagon Ragasco | Q4 2023

Seasonally typical quarter
- Unusual quarter last year driven by high stocking requirements
- Lower European volumes offset partially by large new order to Oceania
Profitability:
– 15% margin baseline achieved despite volume level

Hexagon Ragasco | Full Year 2023*

Unsatisfactory top-line development
- Not able to fully offset the de-stocking effects in Europe with deliveries to rest of the world
- Strong sales to Middle East and a total of 21 new customers in 2023, 16% of volumes
Resilient margins:
– Lower volumes offset partly by positive currency effects

Hexagon Digital Wave | Q4 2023

- · 2x growth in services (MAE) business1
- Higher machine sales in UE business'; included delayed shipments from Q3
- Margin appreciation despite ongoing organization driven opex

Hexagon Digital Wave | Full Year 2023*

54% revenue growth
- 3x growth in MAE services which are complementary to Hexagon Agility businesses
- Further top-line growth in UE machines
Profitable growth
– Positive margin despite continued ramp-up, weighing down 10 percentage points

Hexagon Group leverage

• At end of Q4, Hexagon Group has NOK 733 million in available liquidity
- Total NIBD of NOK 954 million
- NIBD/EBITDA leverage of 2x

Hexagon Purus
- Contributed NOK 0.2 billion in form of Convertible bond
- Support towards break-even EBITDA goal in 2025
- Hexagon Purus has attracted HY24 and Mitsui as anchor investors
- Accounting driven non-cash impairment of NOK 0.7 billion
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- Net NOK +1.65 billion P&L effect for year, including the gain realized in second quarter
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Hexagon Group 20231 Financial & ESG Scorecard Strong demand for our sustainable solutions, solid fundamentals

2023 = Preliminary and unaudited
CO2 equivalents. Number is subject of ull-year review. Source: Caculated based on the Alternative Fuel Life-Cycle Environmental and Economic Transportation (AFEET) 2) tool from the Greenhouse gass, Regulated Emission in Technologies (GREE®) model has been used for estimating enission reductions, Greenhouse
Gas Equivalencies Calculator | US EPA 23 3) As of 15 February 2024.
Qutlook

Hexagon Group 2024 outlook
Back-end loaded with truck sales expected to increase significantly after engine launch

HEX AGON
Mobile Pipeline & Cylinders other Strong RNG driven growth with almost full backlog for 2024; Strong sales to Hexagon Purus expected
Transit & Refuse truck Lumpy transit, steady Refuse truck
Truck
Continued excess capacity in freight sector. Typically low Q1, weak Q2 ahead of new X15N engine launch in Q3; expecting pick-up in second half 2024
LPG cylinders
Stable 2024 expected with major European customer rationalizing capex, offset by larger orders outside Europe
Cylinder testing and inspection technologies Continued profitable growth
Revenue
- · Back-end loaded truck revenues
- · Growth on track for 2025 target of NOK >6bn
EBITDA
- · Back-end loaded profitability
- · Margin appreciation expected in second-half of year, in line with increased truck volumes
- Profitability on track for 2025 target of ~15%

Key takeaways
21% top-line growth in 2023 with improved margins
Record Mobile Pipeline and Hexagon Digital Wave sales
Strong RNG* drivers Introductory orders for game-changing 15L engine commenced
On track to hit 2025 targets
Revenue: >NOK 6bn EBITDA margin: ~15%


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Hexagon proforma financial highlights (1/3)

Hexagon Group (excluding Hexagon Purus)*
• Hexagon (excl. Hexagon Purus) provides clean solutions with strong ESG benefits
- Hexagon Agility**: (renewable) natural gas clean mobility solutions
- · Hexagon Ragasco: Portable LPG cylinders for household and leisure applications
- · Digital Wave: smart technology for monitoring and testing of cylinder systems and creating circular economy by extending life expectancy
Hexagon Purus* NOKm Revenues E EBITDA 372 330 259 244

· Hexagon Purus provides clean and sustainable fuel solutions for battery electric and hydrogen vehicles

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"2020 peliminary unaudied pro-formations; 2021 segment reported and is after central/corporate and eliminations within the segments
* peviously refered to a g-mobility and be consistent with other reported segments and alled of CNG DV business to Heagon Agility of CNC LDV by M.L.2
Segment proforma financial highlights (2/3)

· Hexagon Agility provides (renewable) natural gas clean mobility solutions for Heavy and Medium Duty Vehicles, Mobile Pipeline, and Light-Duty Vehicles
· Global leading provider within markets including Heavy-Duty/ Medium-Duty Trucks, Refuse Truck, Transit Bus, Gas Transportation, Mobile Refueling units and Passenger cars
Hexagon Agility split (after eliminations)* NOKm

Previously refered to as g-mobility and being rebrants and alsead of transferring generional responsibility of CNG LDV business to Heragon Aglib (1.1.22)
2020: preliminary unaudited pro-forma figures after adjusting for reorganizations; 2021 segment reported
32 1) Corrected compared to previous quarters due to reclassifications.
Segment proforma financial highlights (3/3)

- World leading provider of LPG composite cylinders
- · Delivered over 20 million cylinders worldwide
- · Strategic agenda include loT and digitalization providing connectivity and driving value chain transformation
Hexagon Digital Wave

- · Proprietary safety technology Modal Acoustic Emission (MAE) technology for testing and certifying cylinders
- Strategic agenda include cylinder digitalization with real-timing monitoring, testing and certification, creating a circular economy through enabling life extension





Hexagon Group Balance sheet | Q4 2023 vs Q3 2023

6,456 1 516 141 Net Interest-bearing 449 debt = NOK 954m 1 108 4 098 Equity ratio 50% 3 241 30.09.2023 31.12.2023
IFRS-driven impairment of Hexagon Purus by 0.7bn reduces Balance sheet in the quarter
Clean air everywhere
