Amyris Brotas Plant Sold Out for 2017-2020 Farnesene Volume

Amyris, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMRS), the industrial bioscience company, today announced an expansion project to add a dedicated flavors & fragrances manufacturing unit to its Brotas industrial fermentation complex in Brazil. This planned expansion enables the company to meet demand for contracted flavors and fragrances molecules for its collaboration partners.

The expansion provides for focused use of the current Brotas industrial fermentation capacity to supply Amyris’s current partners and collaborators based on projected demand for Biofene® (Amyris-branded farnesene) serving the polymers, nutraceuticals and solvents markets through 2020.

Expected demand will require new farnesene manufacturing capacity beyond the company’s current capacity at its Brotas plant. Amyris is in active discussions with current collaborators and partners to provide financing for the project, with construction expected to start in the second half of 2016.

“After several years of application and product development activities in collaboration with our strategic partners, we’ve now transitioned to the commercialization phase of many applications,” said John Melo, Amyris President & CEO. “We are very fortunate that many of our partnerships are focused on solving supply chain challenges by replacing current raw material sources with lower-cost, better-performing, sustainably sourced material. This is enabling us to grow our supply of farnesene into these markets at a faster rate than we expected.”

Continued Melo, “We expect to have five or more high performance fragrance molecules scaled as we complete 2016 and this, combined with strong farnesene demand, has enabled us to initiate a project for a dedicated flavors & fragrances operation at Brotas. We are very excited for our Brazilian operation as this will result in our plant becoming one of the largest providers of flavors and fragrances ingredients to the world as we continue to execute and deliver contracted molecules to our partners. This would not be possible without the excellent track record of our manufacturing and engineering teams’ ability to meet or exceed our partners’ manufacturing requirements at large scale.”

Amyris Personal Care Business (Flavors, Fragrances, Food ingredients and Cosmetic Ingredients) is Company’s Largest and Fastest-Growing Business

The personal care business represented $25 million of 2015 revenue and is expected to contribute $40 million of 2016 revenue.
The company expects existing collaboration and supply agreements to generate over $200 million in revenue through 2020 from the company’s flavors and fragrances partners (including the five largest fragrance houses in the world) and other industry leading companies.
The company’s first food ingredients collaboration is successfully underway with plans to begin producing a disruptive, large-market product for this customer in 2017.

Customer Commitments Underpin Brotas Utilization through 2016 — Anticipated to Ramp Through 2020

Amyris entered 2016 with key customer commitments in place for farnesene applications, which represent a substantial percentage (approximately 88% of anticipated product revenue based on information from these customers) of planned production volume at Brotas during 2016.
During the fourth quarter of 2015 Amyris started shipping farnesene for the commercial production of tires, adhesives, nutraceuticals and solvents. These applications are expected to consume the full production of Brotas in 2016 and keep the plant capacity sold out through 2020, including the added capacity as a result of the dedicated flavors and fragrances industrial production unit.

About Amyris

Amyris is the integrated renewable products company that is enabling the world’s leading brands to achieve sustainable growth. Amyris applies its innovative bioscience solutions to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules, specialty ingredients and consumer products. The company is delivering its No Compromise® products in focused markets, including specialty and performance chemicals, fragrance ingredients, and cosmetic emollients.