Aspen Aerogels : Company Presentation

A Technology Leader In Sustainability

Company Presentation

February 18, 2021

©2021 Aspen Aerogels, Inc.

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Such risks and uncertainties include those related to: an inability to create new product, partnership and market opportunities; any sustained downturn in the energy industry or energy prices; any sustained downturn in the petrochemical, refinery, subsea, LNG, U.S., North American, Asian, European, South American, Middle Eastern, building materials, electric vehicle or other market due to the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 or any other factor; any failure to sustain project-based demand in the subsea, LNG, on-shore or other markets; the right of EV thermal barrier customers to cancel contracts with Aspen at any time and without penalty; any costs, expenses, or investments incurred by Aspen in excess of projections used to develop pricing under the contracts with EV thermal barrier customers; any failure of Aspen or PyroThinTM to meet contractual specifications and requirements under contracts with EV thermal barrier customers; Aspen's inability to create new product, customer or market opportunities, including for PyroThinTM or for new products developed from Aspen's aerogel technology; any disruption or inability to achieve expected capacity levels in any of our three production lines or the manufacturing facility in which they are located, including due to the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 or any other factor, any inability to expand manufacturing capacity in a second manufacturing facility; the failure to receive all regulatory or other approvals required to operate, maintain or expand our facilities; any failure of demand for Aspen's products; any failure to achieve expected price increases or average selling prices for Aspen's products; any significant increase in the cost of raw materials, utilities or any other manufacturing consumable; the failure to mitigate the impact of any significant increase in the cost of raw materials, utilities or other manufacturing consumable; shortages of raw materials, utilities or any other manufacturing consumable due to the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 or any other factor; the failure to generate sufficient operating cash flow or to obtain significant additional capital to pursue Aspen's strategy; the failure of Aspen's products to become widely adopted; the competition Aspen faces in its business; any failure to enforce any of Aspen's patents;any failure to protect or expand Aspen's aerogel technology platform; any future finding of invalidity of any patent in any jurisdiction; any failure to generate sufficient operating cash flow or to obtain sufficient additional capital to continue to pursue Aspen's new business, technology, patent enforcement, or patent defense strategy; any failure of Aspen's products to meet applicable specifications and other performance, safety, technical and delivery requirements; the general economic conditions and cyclical demands in the markets that Aspen serves; the economic, operational and political risks associated with sales and expansion of operations in foreign countries; the loss of any direct customer, including distributors, contractors and OEMs; compliance with health and safety laws and regulations; and the maintenance and development of distribution channels.

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The industry and market data contained in this presentation is based either on our management's own estimates or on independent industry publications, reports by market research firms or other publicized independent sources. Although the Company believes these sources are reliable, it has not independently verified the information and cannot guarantee its accuracy and completeness, as industry and market data are subject to change and cannot always be verified with complete certainty due to limits on the availability and reliability of raw data, the voluntary nature of the data gathering process and other limitations and uncertainties inherent in any statistical survey or market shares. Accordingly, you should be aware that the industry and market data contained in this presentation, and estimates and beliefs based on such data, may not reliable. Unless otherwise indicated, all information contained in this presentation concerning our industry in general or any segment thereof, including information regarding our general expectations and market opportunity, is based on management's estimates using internal data, data from industry related publications, consumer research and marketing studies and other externally obtained data. Certain financial or other targets are based on management estimates, currently available information and assumptions that may change. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that we will achieve our financial targets or other expectations. The expectations are inherently subject to significant economic, competitive and other uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of management. Actual results may vary materially based on a number of factors. For example, The Company's estimates on Slide 12 of this presentation are based on assumptions about the following factors: (i) adoption rates of various Si-rich anode materials to replace all or part of graphite, (ii) their aggregate pricing, and (iii) the amount of Si in anode. Due to the rapid pace of technical development in lithium batteries, the Company's assumptions may evolve in the future due to various external factors resulting in different estimates than those arrived here. There are a wide range of estimates being published, including ones that would result in lower per vehicle figures. While the Company's management believes its estimates regarding possible pricing and market size are based on reasonable assumptions and methodology, there can be no assurance that the future pricing and market size will align with the Company's estimates.

Such data may be outdated and involves a number of assumptions and limitations and contains projections and estimates of the future performance of the industries in which we operate that are subject to a high degree of uncertainty. We caution you not to give undue weight to such projections, assumptions and estimates.

Multi Billion Dollar Commercial Opportunities

Deploying a Rich Technology Platform into ESG driven markets

2020-2030 OpportunityCurrent StatusEV Thermal Barrier

$1 Billion1 of Potential Revenue from Current Customers

2023 - Targets & Milestones

• ➢ $225 million in Revenue and 30% Gross Margin fueling future growth

• ➢ Our target assumes existing manufacturing assets:

  • • PyroThinTM Thermal Barrier revenue principally from existing customers

  • • Energy Infrastructure revenue at 2019 (pre-COVID) levels

• ➢ First adoption of silicon rich Carbon Aerogel anode material in a lithium-ion EV battery

• ➢ Accelerating momentum in Sustainable Building Materials

The Opportunity Through 2025

EV Battery Materials

$30bn

Sustainable Building

Materials

$37bn

Silicon-rich Anode Development Accelerating

$8bn

$50 Million Installed Base and Growing

Energy Infrastructure

$31bn

Over $1 Billion Installed Base and Growing Share

Double Revenue Every 24 MonthsMultiple EV Applications

1 Based on customer forecasts

Unique and Protected

TechnologyMulti-Year Platform Wins

Technology Leader

In Sustainability

EV Battery Thermal Barriers