Five guys, a fume hood and a fascination for cellulose fibers - OrganoClick 10 years old

Five guys, a fume hood and a fascination for cellulose fibers and green
chemistry, that was how it all started. Now Nasdaq listed OrganoClick celebrates
10 years!
The starting point in 1995 for OrganoClick’s scientific co-founders, the Ph.D.
students Armando Córdova and Jonas Hafrén was, "We have a problem - Toxic
chemicals and plastic waste causes damage to our environment every day." The
inspiration came from nature’s own solution and its “green” chemistry that
creates the most amazing functional properties like water repellency, root &
fire protection, mechanical strengths in growing plants. By mimicking these
functions, by creating strong chemical bonds between the cellulosic fibers and
functional molecules by using organocatalysis and click-chemistry, the
OrganoClick®-technology was developed some years later. Providing functionality
to the cellulosic fiber was the business idea and the possibilities seemed
endless. May 24, 2006 OrganoClick AB was registered as a company in Sweden. The
journey went from a fume hood at Stockholm University to an office at
Teknikhöjden and on to the first own factory in Täby. Now the company has a
brand new factory of 3.600 sqm, a state-of-the-art laboratory, and close to 30
employees.

"We have many people to be thankful to. Who helped and supported us on this
amazing journey. It really has been blood, sweat and tears, but today I'm
incredibly proud of what we have accomplished," says CEO and co-founder Mårten
Hellberg.

After only 10 years OrganoClick has already received many prestigious awards;

- King Carl XVI Gustaf's 50-year Anniversary Fund for Science, Technology and
Environment in 2007

- Sweden's most promising start-up company by winning the "Innovation &
Technology" Award 2008

- Sweden's best environmental innovation by winning the competition
"Environmental Innovation" in 2008

- Appointed as a “Climate Solver” by the WWF in 2010

- OrganoTex® elected as “one of the most interesting new material” at the
outdoor-fair ISPO in Munich in 2013

- Appointed as One of the “33 most interesting young tech companies” in Sweden
in 2013 and 2014

- OrganoWood-modified wood won Nordbyggs Gold medal for the "hottest new
materials of the Year" 2014

- Listed as a Sustainia 100 - featuring the 100 leading sustainable innovation
globally in 2015

Today OrganoClick are active in three different areas, modified wood, finishes
for textiles and non-woven and green biocomposites. All with the aim of
replacing the toxic chemicals with green chemistry, sustainable for the
environment and harmless to people and animals. And the sales are growing
rapidly:

"It is with great pleasure that this month of our 10 year celebration features
our best sales figures ever", Mårten Hellberg concludes.

For more information, please contact: Mårten Hellberg, CEO

Phone: +46 (0)8 684 001 10[image]

Email: marten.hellberg@organoclick.com

About OrganoClick

OrganoClick AB (publ) is a Swedish cleantech company listed on Nasdaq First
North that develops, produces and markets functional materials based on
environmentally friendly fiber chemistry. Examples of products that are marketed
by OrganoClick are the water repellent fabric treatment OrganoTex®, the flame
and rot timber protectant OrganoWood® (through the subsidiary company OrganoWood
AB) and biobased binders for non-woven materials. OrganoClick was founded in
2006 as a commercial spinoff company based on academic research examining the
modification of biofibers performed at Stockholm University and the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences. OrganoClick has won several prizes and has
been designated “Sweden's most promising start-up company”, Sweden's best
environmental innovation and has appeared on the Affärsvärldens och NyTekniks
top 33 list of “Sweden's hottest technology companies”. The company has also
received a number of awards, such as The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)
“Climate Solver” award. OrganoClick’s headquarters are in Täby, north of
Stockholm, where the company's production, R&D, sales and marketing departments
are located. OrganoClick's Certified Adviser on Nasdaq First North is Erik
Penser Bank.