REC Silicon ASA

Good evening, and welcome to the fourth quarter 2025 presentation. My name is Kurt Levins. I'm the CEO of RAC Silicon, and I'm joined by Jack Yoon, our CFO. Today, we're going to go through the usual highlights and updates, find out your review, and then spend some time on strategic development, and recent financing activities, followed by a summary of the high points of the quarter. Our EBITDA loss from continuing operations was $3.7 million in this quarter. Silicon gas sales still remain relatively range bound, although some segments are now starting to exhibit recovery. We closed on $20 million in loans in Q4, and additional subsequent financial events in 26, such as extension of $110 million for short-term loans, additional $10 million loan in January, and earlier this week, a proposed fully underwritten rights issue to raise the NOC equivalent of $100 million in new equity. Gas shipments were higher than in Q3. However, shipments still remain in the 500 to 600 range that we have been in for the past six quarters or so. Unfortunately, the same conditions have persisted for the past year and a half. Regional shifts in demand on some of our standard products, combined with oversupply in some of those markets. Additionally, pushouts of new end market capacity and cancellations of some projects. Our increase in revenues in Q3, primarily driven by volume increases in gases and our mixed effects coming from an ASP increase attributable to a higher amount of our higher value products and higher value markets that we sell into. The highest This resulted in the highest EBITDA contribution of 2025, and a higher contribution than was in Q3 of 25. We ended the year with a cash balance of $7.3 million, and we borrowed $20 million in the Q4 period. In addition to that, we had an annual payment for a Grant County property tax note. And as noted in the chart, interest was our largest outflow in the quarter. Nominal debt increased in the quarter. We still have a lot of maturities to deal with this year. However, we have already extended some subsequent to quarter end and hope to retire some as well. The past 15 months have presented a rapidly changing market environment due to a number of factors. However, we continue to focus on minimizing our cost of optionality of Moses Lake and efforts around high grading our portfolio and view that seem to begin moving in the correct direction. Even though we've been range bound in terms of our volumes, We've been fighting hard to defend our market share, as well as try to win new volumes at new facilities. We are engaged in a number of efforts now to win qualifications and eventually business at new facilities as they come online. However, I want to note that this has proven to be not necessarily predictable as to when these facilities do come online and the degree to which they ramp up. Right now, financially, our priority is on funding our ongoing operations. I want to note that we will continue to require additional financing and support, particularly from our major shareholders. As part of this, as I had noted earlier and as we had announced earlier in the week, the Board of Directors has proposed a fully underwritten rights issue to raise the NOC equivalent of $100 million in new equity. And as I had mentioned earlier in the presentation, we continue to have additional discussions in order to deal with extensions, potential extensions or restructuring of of our term loans that come due in this year. Management and the board have conducted a thorough review of our financing alternatives and concluded in the absence of additional debt financing, which is not available to the company in present. A rights issue is the best alternative for IRC Silicon. Fully underwritten rights issue to raise knock equivalent of $100 million. The proceeds are to be used as outlined in our announcement and in this slide. And it is subject to approval by the EGM. Compared to other alternatives, such as a private placement, a rights issue protects the rights of minority shareholders. They have full right to participate in the transactions. A request for investigation pursuant to Section 525 of the Public Limited Companies Act was received by the Oscar and Barron District Court. Response by the company is due to the court by February 12th. In the U.S. process, we continue to comply with anything that is required of us. Our current environment is marked by certain lack of visibility in some of our segments and channels as a result of shifts in demand caused by geopolitical concerns, as well as shifts in oversupply, again caused by imbalances in certain markets and the movement of some of those consuming segments from one market into another. This has created imbalances in terms of the entire value chains kind of inventories, and as such, they need to clear in some areas, and in other areas, we still see oversupply that exists there. There is signs of some market recovery in some segments, as noted by our continuing increase in our higher-grade products. However, as a whole, particularly in the semiconductor market, we do not see a broad market recovery, particularly in the auto segments. and PV continues to be highly regional driven with a current relatively lower utilization. We've completed our latest adjustments to staffing levels, particularly as a result of our previously announced restructuring and optimization in our PUE facility. For Q1, of 26 are silicon gases shipment target is, again, in the same range that we have been noting recently. As I mentioned before and as announced earlier this week, the Board of Directors has proposed a fully underwritten rights issue to raise the NOC equivalent of $100 million in new equity, and we are continuing additional financing discussions, study of more comprehensive restructuring of our loans that are maturing in 2026. Thank you. Our next release presentation will be on May 7th to cover Q1 of 2026. With that, we'll open for some questions. Okay, so moving on to submitted questions. Can you go into detail on what type of activities are ongoing in Moses Lake and what is the reason for the negative cash coming out of Moses Lake? The negative cash coming out of Moses Lake, approximately $3.9 million in the quarter, is required for us to sustain safe and reliable operations. So Moses Lake has been put into a status where we will be able to recover it for operations when the time comes. Of course, that will mean a lot more activity than what it is now, and it will include more costs to put it back into full operation and to staff it up and ramp it up. But that is essentially the cost of our optionality. We have labor costs included in that. There are costs of inputs still, because we still have energy that we need to have in the system, as well as costs related to other contracts in place for inputs. Those are going to stay. We're working on making sure that we can optimize them as much as possible and continue to find ways of incremental adjustments to reduce the cost of that optionality. But they will be there every quarter. Is the rights issue the only financing solution, or what alternatives have been considered? The company has assessed a variety of financing solutions. I mean, based on underwriting was the only executable financing solution that could be implemented within the necessary time frame that would preserve equal treatment of shareholders and that would stabilize the company's financial position for this time. If Anchor slash NY increases its ownership as a result of the rights issue, does the board expect a mandatory offer of to be triggered? I can't speak for the board, but I would say that management has no understanding of whether that will be the case or not, or what HEMLA intends to do after the completion of this rights issue. Can you go into detail on the recent Information that has come out of the Norwegian courts. Only that we are complying with what was asked for us to do. As I noted in that slide, we have a response due on the 12th of February. And following the rights issue, will RAC be fully funded for 2026? Look, REC Silicon does not have sufficient available cash to meet our debt service and other anticipated operating cash flow requirements. Going forward, without the continued support from major shareholder handbook or additional sources of capital. Okay. That concludes all the questions that have been submitted. Okay. Okay. Thank you, and we will see you in May. We'll talk with you in May.