Preliminary Results 2021

Paul Mines, CEO/Rob Smith, CFO

March 2022

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Group businesses support global trends

Tackling the global plastics problem

Supporting global internet connectivity

Our materials have made over half a billion compostable coffee pods in the last year alone

Our latest equipment supports the rollout of 120 million km of fibre optic cable each year

2021 highlights

Bioplastics division

  • - revenue declined by 3.0%

  • - challenging year with post-pandemic logistics issues and customer delays

  • - customer base and application base broadening

  • - continuing strength shown in pipeline of commercial opportunities

RF Technologies division

  • - revenues increased as push into adjacent markets starts to gain momentum

  • - orders from medical and food packaging industries received and scheduled for delivery in 2022

  • - first fibre optic system order received since 2018 and scheduled for delivery in H1 2022

  • - Order intake in Q4 2021 and Q1 2022 particularly encouraging

2021 results

2020 £m

2021 £m

Comment

Group Revenue (excludes grant income)

5.7

5.7

Bioplastics division 4.9

RF Technologies division 0.8

(Gross Margin)

29%

4.8

0.9 34%

3% revenue decline due to supply/logistics/customer delays Early signs of recovery, with good order book going into 2022

Change in product mix towards higher margin products

Overheads

(3.6)

(3.4)

Full year benefit of overhead reductions and lower share option charges

(L)/EBITDA Operating loss

(1.0) (1.6)

(0.6) (1.1)

Opening Cash

2.1

1.7

Reported (L)/EBITDA Working Capital Investment / R&D tax credit Financing Activities

(1.0) (0.1) (0.2) 0.9

(0.6)

- (0.1)

-

Closing Cash

1.7

1.0

See Final Results for further details

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