October 27, 2022

ASPEN AEROGELS

Q3 2022 FINANCIAL RESULTS CALL

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expressions are intended to identify forwardlooking statements, although not all forwardlooking statements contain these identifying words. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this presentation, including statements regarding our shortterm and longterm growth strategies and expectations about the growth of our business; 2023, 2024, and 2025 revenue targets; future revenue opportunities through this decade; efforts to develop and commercialize our products; market opportunities in the electric vehicle market regarding thermal barriers as well as battery materials; market opportunities in the sustainable building materials and the energy infrastructure markets; our expectations regarding future operations, future financial position, future capacity, future revenue and projected costs; our expectations about global electric vehicle sales as well as the potential revenue from the sale of our products per electric vehicle; the revenue opportunity estimates from the major US automotive OEM ;Investment estimates for Plant II or in R&D; capital expenditure programs, annual revenue capacity with Phase I and Phase II of Plant 2, gross profit and EBITDA estimates with full manufacturing capacity; our expectations about revenue predictability; estimates of Awarded Programs in 2023 and 2025; estimates of product mixes in 2023 and 2025; our expectations about customers and automotive industry's approach towards addressing thermal runaway; our prospects and plans; objectives of management; and expected market growth are forwardlooking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forwardlooking statements. These forwardlooking statements are only predictions, and we may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forwardlooking statements, so you should not rely on our forwardlooking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forwardlooking statements we make. We have based these forwardlooking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition and operating results. The Company's future financial and operating results, as well as any forward-looking statements, are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties, such as those described in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as well as its subsequent annual, quarterly and current reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 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 PyroThin® 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 PyroThin® 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 at Plant II including due to the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 or any other factor, any inability to expand manufacturing capacity Plant II; Aspen's Pyrothin® product or another product's ability to solve the customer problem towards which it is targeted; 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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Disclaimer on Forward Looking Statements

The presentation contains information regarding certain financial targets with respect to the Company. Such financial targets constitutes forward looking information and is for illustrative purposes only and should not be relied upon as necessarily being indicative of future results. The assumptions and estimates underlying such financial targets are inherently uncertain and are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic, competitive and other risks and uncertainties, as described above. Actual results may differ materially from the results contemplated in the financial targets contained in this presentation, and the inclusion of such information in this presentation should not be regarded as a representation by any person that the results reflected in such targets will be achieved. "Awarded Programs" as used in this presentation is our estimates of the revenues that we believe are potentially derivable from customers based on our knowledge of our customer's selection of our products for use in a specific platform or vehicle lineup. Certain of our customers provide us with various projections of their forecasts for vehicles to be sold in various time frames. Our estimates of Awarded Programs are based on this information provided by customers and certain other assumptions, including expectations regarding future sales volumes and the continuation of our relationship with customers. Our customers generally do not guarantee or commit to sales volumes and many of our arrangements with our customers may be terminated by them at any time without penalty.

The information in this presentation is current as of October 27, 2022 and speaks only as of such date. We expressly disclaim any obligation to release any updates or revisions to any information presented herein, including any forwardlooking statements, to reflect any change in our expectations or projections or any changes in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such information or statements are based for any reason, except as required by law, even as new information becomes available. All information and forwardlooking statements in this presentation are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

This presentation includes certain non-generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) financial measures that we use to describe our company's performance or estimated or targeted future performance. The non-GAAP information presented provides investors with additional useful information but should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for the related GAAP measures. Moreover, other companies may define non-GAAP measures differently, which limits the usefulness of these measures for comparisons with such other companies. We encourage investors to review our financial statements and publicly filed reports in their entirety and not to rely on any single financial measure.

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 be 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 in this presentation are based on assumptions about the following factors: (i) adoption rates of EV and our customers' market penetration, (ii) the aggregate pricing of our products, and (iii) the average amount of our products incorporated in each vehicle. 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.

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Q3 Developments and Recent Highlights

2022 Revenue Guidance Recap

$ in millions

150

190

February

145

155

June

180

200

Today

121

~180

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

200

Long-term Revenue Targets

$ in millions

3x

+48%

2x

$720M

~$180M

$122M

$240M

$121M

2021

2022

2023

2025

Q3 and Recent Highlights

  • 21% YoY Quarterly Revenue Growth
  • Annual scheduled plant shutdown and nationwide CO2 shortage constrained Aerogel production
  • Meaningful Pyrothin® sales and technical progress with German OEM for commercial vehicles and luxury platform
  • Strong growth in LNG driving Energy Industrial orders for coming quarters
  • 5 new Subsea projects added $12.7M of revenue to near-term backlog
  • $129.4M invested on Plant II through Q3

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Q3 2022 Financial Highlights

$ in millions except per share figures

Q3 2021 Q3 20221

Q3 YTD

Q3 YTD

2022 Outlook1

2021

20221

REVENUES

$30.4

$36.7

$90.1

$120.8

$180.0

YoY Growth

26%

21%

17%

34%

48%

Net (Loss)

$(7.8)

$(29.6)

$(20.7)

$(73.1)

$(82.3) - $(86.8)

Adj. EBITDA2

$(7.8)

$(23.2)

$(13.8)

$(56.2)

$(57.5) - $(62.0)

EPS

$(0.24)

$(0.75)

$(0.70)

$(2.03)

$(2.22) - $(2.35)

Cap Ex

$2.3

$67.0

$6.1

$119.4

$200.0 - $225.0

1- Unaudited financials for 2022 (and Outlook)

2- See slide 8 herein for a reconciliation of net loss, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to Adjusted EBITDA for the presented period

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Commentary

Quarter affected by "slight shift" in EV volume acceleration, scheduled annual Aerogel plant shutdown and CO2 shortage

Slowed the growth rate of investment in talent, systems, facilities and tooling to enable continuous EV market growth and productivity investments aimed at driving long-term profitable growth.

Investments aligned to deliver customer demand and enable supply chain resiliency.

Optimizing R&D facility upgrades, Plant II construction, PyroThin ® assembly tooling, automation equipment, IT systems.

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