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MICRO-X LIMITED Investor Presentation 2019

Jul 25, 2019

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Micro-X Limited, ABN 21 153 273 735

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COMPANY PRESENTATION

Key updates to Company’s strategies, activities & milestones - 15th Bioshares investment summit in Queenstown, NZ

Adelaide, Australia, 26 July 2019: Australian hi-tech company Micro-X Ltd (ASX:MX1) ( Micro-X or the Company ), a leader in cold cathode x-ray technology for the health and security markets globally, is pleased to announce that Peter Rowland, Managing Director will be presenting at 4pm today at the 15[th] Bioshares Biotech Summit 2019 ( Bioshares Summit ).

The Company’s Presentation for the Bioshares Summit is attached . The Presentation outlines certain key updates in the Company’s strategies and activities as outlined in recent announcements, as well as updates to targeted commercial and financial Milestones.

The Bioshares Summit will take place in Queenstown, New Zealand from 26 to 27 July 2019 and is hosted by Bioshares, a leading independent Australian biotech investment publication and attended by approximately 180 delegates including leading biotech executives, fund managers and investors.

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About Micro-X

Micro-X Limited (the Company ) is an ASX listed hi-tech company developing and commercialising a range of innovative products for the global health and security markets, based on proprietary cold cathode, carbon nanotube emitter technology. The electronic control of emitters with this technology enables X-ray products with significant reduction in size, weight and power requirements, enabling greater mobility and ease of use in existing x-ray markets and a range of new and unique security and defence applications. The Company has its core R&D, engineering and production capability at its facility in Adelaide, Australia.

The Company’s first product, the Carestream DRX Revolution Nano , is an ultra-lightweight digital medical x-ray system for the rapidly expanding mobile x-ray market in hospitals and healthcare. The Carestream DRX Revolution Nano holds 510(k) and CE Mark certifications and is sold commercially in a number of global markets by the Company’s exclusive distributor, Carestream Health, Inc.. The Company has a portfolio of innovative products in development, aimed at customer solutions where there is little or no competition. This includes the Mobile Backscatter Imager or MBI which will image Improvised Explosive Devices for airport security, defence and counter-terrorism applications. The MBI is being jointly developed in partnership with Thales, a global supplier of defence and security technology systems, who are providing technical support and $10 million of funding.

CONTACTS

Micro-X Limited Investor Enquiries
Peter Rowland
Managing Director
Tel: +61 8 7099 3966
E:
[email protected]
David Allen / John Granger
Hawkesbury Partners
Tel: +61 2 9103 9494
E:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Micro-X Limited, 1284 South Road, Tonsley, South Australia, 5042, AUSTRALIA

www.micro-x.com

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Ltd

ACN 153 273 735

ASX: MX1

Company Presentation Setting Course & Scaling up commercial activities

Bioshares Biotech Summit 2019, Queenstown NZ, 26[th] July 2019 Peter Rowland Managing Director & CEO

Disclaimer

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This document contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable at this time, we can give no assurance that these expectations will prove to be correct.

Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements due to many important factors, risk and uncertainties including, without limitation, risks associated with estimating potential quantity and timing of sales, risks associated with medical device development and manufacture, risks inherent in the extensive regulatory approval processes mandated by regulatory authorities, delays in clinical trials, future capital needs, general economic uncertainly and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company’s announcements to the ASX.

Moreover, there can be no assurance that others will not independently develop similar products or processes or design around patents owned or licensed by the Company, or that patents owned or licensed by the Company will provide meaningful protection or competitive advantages.

All reasonable efforts have been made to provide accurate information, but the Company does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to any “forward-looking statement” to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this presentation, except as may be required under applicable laws. Recipients should make their own enquiries in relation to any investment decisions from a licensed investment advisor.

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Overview

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Next generation X-ray for global health and security markets

  • ASX listed hi-tech X-ray company based in Tonsley, Adelaide

  • Next generation, cold cathode nano technology enables X-ray products with significant reduction in size, weight and power requirements

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  • greater mobility and ease of use in existing medical applications

  • range of new and unique security and defence applications

  • Strategy of technology development and partnering for commercial access

  • First commercial product , the Carestream DRX Revolution Nano , is an ultra-lightweight digital x-ray system for the mobile x-ray market in healthcare

  • 510(k) and CE Mark certifications

  • sold in a number of global markets including USA by Carestream Health, Inc

  • Thales partnership supports defence and security technology applications

Carestream DRX Revolu7on Nano

  • Early revenue with growing sales and near term additional products

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Investment Highlights

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Advanced technology, design and manufacturing company

  • Platform technology – health and security applications

  • Built strong Design and Manufacturing capability & processes

  • Addressed manufacturing issues with CNT insourcing project

  • First product, DRX Revolution Nano , already sold in 8 countries

  • Completed major manufacturing and facility expansion

  • Expands capacity and increases margins and quality control

  • Delivered strategic partnerships and investors

  • Carestream – ex Kodak Medical, US2.5$b sales, 6,000 employees

  • Thales – Global technology giant, €16b sales, 66,000 employees

  • Won contracts from British and Australian governments

  • Early revenue – pathway to revenue and margin growth

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Micro-X engineering and manufacturing facility, Tonsley, Adelaide

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Next generation X-ray technology

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Our carbon nanotube technology provides a revolution in X-ray products & functions

Existing X-Ray Technology

Next Gen

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Filament

Technology unchanged since 1896 Hot filament generates X-ray beam X-ray still dominant form of diagnostic imaging Mobile bedside X-ray – fastest growing segment Siemens, GE, Canon, Philips, Carestream

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LED

CNT emitter + electronic control generates X-ray beam Up to 10x smaller X-ray tube Considerably more efficient with no heat Significant increase in current functionality New security & military applications

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Product roadmap

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Planned product evolution – from current X-ray uses to solving unmet needs

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Mobile medical X-ray
Nano
Launched 2019
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Mobile medical X-ray Counter terrorism
for Military IED Detection
Rover
MBI
Launch late 2020
Prototype end 2020
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Airport screening
MBS
Prototype ~ 2021
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Healthcare applications
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Military & Counter terror applications
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Security applications

  • Additional healthcare opportunities

  • Mobile 3D CT imager for stroke diagnosis

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Business model & Strategies

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Commercialise our proprietary technology products with selected global partners

  • Multi-pronged strategy in healthcare, defence and security – based on proprietary technology

  • World leading in-house design and technology capabilities

  • Expand highly robust quality manufacturing capability

  • Enter markets in partnership with globally recognised brands

  • First product in healthcare builds credibility before entering new markets without competition

v Earn attractive technology margins as an OEM manufacturer in large global markets

  • seek opportunities to move up the value chain

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Corporate Snapshot

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Growth stage company with institutional and strategic investor support

Share & Trading Statistics (Closing Price on 22 July 2019)

Share Price
Total Shares On Issue
Options Issued
Convertible Notes
$0.32 per share
158.3 million
13.7 million
$6.5 million – convert at 23 to 40 cps
Market Cap ~$49.4 million
Key Financials & Shareholders
Current Cash $6.5 million($5m Thales investment, June 2019)
SAFA Loan Facility $3 million facility, low interest rate
Strategic Investors Carestream (6.0%), Thales ($10m Con Notes)
Institutional Investors
Thorney (5.6%) + Other Institutions (7.4%)
Board & Management ~ 11% shares

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Experienced leadership

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Technical and commercial expertise to support our goals and objectives

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Peter Rowland

Managing Director & CEO

  • Over 30 years’ hi-tech engineering and management in defence, aerospace & medical devices

  • Previously BAE Systems, Ellex Medical and Biolase Technology (NASDAQ)

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Patrick O’Brien

Non-Executive Chairman

  • Over 25 years’ business and finance experience in UK, Asia and Australia

  • Former Executive Director at Macquarie Group; McKinsey; and Minter Ellison

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Yasmin King

Non-Executive Director

  • Highly experienced in business, vocation and government

  • Currently CEO of Skills IQ, formerly Associate Commissioner of ACCC

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Dr Alexander Gosling, AM Non-Executive Director

  • Over 40 years’ business, technology and research experience

  • A founding Director at Invetech (Vision Systems); strategy for Capstone

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Georgina Carpendale Chief Financial Officer

10 years' experience in accounting and finance Former Auditor at BDO

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Anthony Skeets Engineering Manager 20 years engineering experience in UK & Aust Lucent, Invetech, Hydrix

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Alexander Blackburn

Programs Manager

Highly experienced in supply chain and quality GM Holden in Aust & China

Victoria Latham

Quality & Reg Manager

  • 20 years Quality in medical devices and auto industry Ellex and Carl Zeiss Vision

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DRX Revolution Nano Our first commercial product - Healthcare

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New solution in mobile X-ray for healthcare

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Carestream Health is a world leader in mobile X-ray for the healthcare market

  • Carestream Health appointed global distributor

  • Premium positioning

  • Already sold into 8 countries including U.S.

  • New geographies underway

  • Strong customer feedback

  • High reliability proven

  • Sales grow in 4[th] Quarter

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Product Overview

  • FDA approved Class II Medical device

  • True mobile X-ray device overcoming limitations of competing mobile X-ray

  • Light & manoeuvrable 90kg v 350 - 600kg

  • Battery operation – 8 hour endurance

  • Unique “tusks” for alignment with controls

  • Bar code reader for patient-image association

  • Small footprint – narrow hospital corridors/lifts

  • Exceptional visibility for operator & patient safety

  • Sold as the Carestream DRX Revolution Nano

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Carestream trade booth – DRX Revolution Nano

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Two year delay - lessons we have learned

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Commercial teething problems we did not anticipate

  • Quality / yield and reliability issues

  • Air freight – resolved with new packaging & procedures

  • XinRay tube – drove a strategic shift to insource a superior emitter

  • 2017 X-ray Tube Insourcing Project – substantially complete

  • Design, engineering, production, validation & testing

  • World leading experts + Flinders Uni & Adelaide Uni

  • Delivered a new, proprietary, superior CNT emitter

  • ~ $3m total project cost

  • Impacted start of sales and ability to ramp up as planned

  • Reset our sales forecast and associated planning

  • Substantial yield, control, scalability and cost improvements

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We have come through these issues with a better positioned product and Company for the long run …

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Insourcing & Manufacturing Scale up

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Next stage Expansion and vertical integration of tube supply

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Tonsley Facility, Adelaide

  • 1,000 m[2 ]

  • Capacity for medium term needs of Nano production

  • Dedicated Rover production

  • Test facilities for MBI project

  • Mechanical & electrical lab space

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  • Shielded rooms for customer demos

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  • ISO 13485

  • Part of Tonsley Innovation District – SA Government initiative

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Other products in development Rover and Mobile Backscatter Imager

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Rover - Second Product in Development

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Mobile X-Ray for NATO Role 2-E Deployed Military Medical Facilities

  • Armies typically use small animal X-ray and Naval vessels use X-ray machines in port

  • Completed imaging tests for Australian Defence Force

  • Australian Defence Project JP2060 tender in evaluation

  • US Army expressed interest

  • Addressable global market ~$170M in NATO countries

  • No competition & unmet need means higher gross margins

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Product Overview

  • Based on key elements of Nano - FDA approved Class II Medical device

  • Higher energy X-ray exams used in trauma

  • Light & manoeuvrable 90kg

  • Hard reusable shell for military transport

  • Easy battery change

  • Operates on uneven surfaces

  • Full performance digital imager in deployed medical facilities – War, Natural disasters

  • Launch late 2020

Top – ADF deployed medical facility at Shoalwater Bay Bottom – ADF demonstration at exercise Giant Viper

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MBI - Third Product in development

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Unmanned full assessment of potential IEDs

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  • Bomb disposal technicians face life threatening harm when placing X- ray detector behind the IEDs

  • Proprietary MBI conducts X-ray without the receiver – one sided

  • Australian Defence Force proof of concept imaging completed

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  • Customer support - military and FBI / bomb disposal interest

  • Addressable market ~$1.8B

  • No competition & unmet need means high gross margins

Product Characteris7cs

  • Multi-beam CNT imaging with Backscatter detector – enables one-sided X-ray image

  • Thales collaborating on new tube development

  • Light and able to be carried by any EOD robot – maintaining distance of bomb technician

  • Resolution of better than 0.5mm

  • Ideal in a wide range of counter-terrorism scenarios

Top – Illustration of MBI carried by EOD Robot Bottom – Current bomb disposal X-ray imaging technique

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Future aviation security concepts

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Next Generation Airport X-Ray screening – ‘ high speed ’ and ‘ self service

High speed – Airport 3D X-ray conveyor

Self service checkpoint X-ray model

  • Latest ECAC Detection Standards 3 & 4

  • Secondary screening at boarding gate

  • Screen up to 1,200 bags p/h (currently 200)

  • Concept uses backscatter and 3D imaging to provide low false alarm rate

  • Automated threat detection software

  • Thales to fund development and take to market

  • Completed Proof of Concept imaging test for UK Government Future Airport Security Solutions

  • Enables next-generation checkpoint protocols- self service for check-in and X-ray screening

  • Another large and growing market

  • Large and growing addressable market

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Thales partnership & $10m investment

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Technology partnership with a global leader in defence and aircraft security

• $10M investment via convertible loan

  • $5m cash received July 2019 on completion

• Contract design and licensing of Airport Checkpoint Security Imaging

• Distribution for MBI in Defence/ security - outside Five-Eyes countries

  • Australia, US, UK, Canada and New Zealand

• Contract manufacture of future miniature X-ray tubes

“….we are at the birth of a new technology evolution. CNT is a game changer in so many fields but none offer such practical and quantifiable benefits as in the X-ray imaging market. From airport checkpoints to counter terrorism activities to future medical imaging devices, Thales and Micro-X are at the cusp of an historical moment. This partnership will give us a technological leap that no one else in this industry has.”

Jean Jacques Guittard, Thales Vice-President, Electron Devices

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Future Product Opportunity

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Brain Perfusion CT Imaging

  • Golden hour - time to commence stroke treatment biggest factor in patient care

  • Ambulances provide first patient contact – need a mobile, simple, diagnostic stroke image

  • Unmet need is greater in remote locations

Product Characteris7cs

  • Multi-beam tomography imaging

  • Ideal to provide early diagnosis of stroke – clot or bleed

  • Small, light and affordable – suits ambulances

  • Only available product is very large and expensive

  • ~$1m to fund proof of concept development – Medical Research Future Fund

  • Addressable global market ~ $25B

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Right: Melbourne mobile stroke unit

Left: Micro-X product concept

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Goals & Objectives We are now setting course

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Milestones - setting our new course

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Focused on delivering commercial outcomes for all stakeholders

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Early US sales of Nano
Thales Partnering deal & $5m
Next Stage Facility expansion
CNT in-sourcing complete
1H - Build on Nano sales Significant Rover & Nano sales
Q3 – First Nano with MX1 tube 1H – Japanese reg process Japan reg clearance – Nano
Q4 – Japan entry strategy 1H – Rover imaging then testing MBI customer demo / testing
Q4 – Nano sold new territories 2H – Rover 510(k) and first sales MBI launch in ~ 2022
Q4 – Rover tube built & test 2H – MBI first imaging demo Airport security prototype
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The above forecast dates are estimated and indicative and may change

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Conclusions

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Building commercialisation of next generation X-ray technology

  • Next generation X-ray platform – health and security markets

  • Significant technology advantages

  • smaller, lighter, more mobility, new applications

  • Strategy and focus on technology development & manufacture

  • Commercial sales via partnerships with global leaders

  • Carestream (Healthcare) + Thales (Security & defence)

  • First product in sales and now growing

  • New products in larger markets with increased financial returns

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ACN 153 273 735
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Peter Rowland Managing Director 1284 South Road Tonsley SA 5042 +61 8 7099 3966 [email protected]