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Nongshim Reveals Global Shin Ramyun Ad Featuring ‘aespa’

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Nongshim has appointed the K-pop group aespa as the new Global Brand Ambassador for Shin Ramyun, marking the first time the brand has selected a worldwide representative. As influential global artists, aespa will help communicate the slogan ‘Spicy Happiness In Noodles’ and introduce Shin Ramyun’s signature taste, identity, and cultural appeal to audiences across major international markets.

Nongshim Shin Ramyun Global Ambassador, aespa
Nongshim Shin Ramyun Global Ambassador, aespa

A Nongshim representative stated “aespa’s strong cultural presence, authentic global reach, and ongoing engagement with Shin Ramyun and Chapagetti since 2021 made the group a natural and compelling ambassador for the brand’s next stage of global expansion.”

  • Global Shin Ramyun Commercial

Nongshim has released a new commercial featuring aespa on its official global YouTube channel. Produced in a music-video format, the film highlights the group’s vocals, performance style, and artistic identity.

The campaign song (or background music) for the commercial is aespa’s rendition of “Spice Up Your Life,” the iconic 1997 hit by the renowned British pop group Spice Girls, reinterpreted with the group’s signature charm. The commercial conveys the message of delivering the “spicy happiness” of Shin Ramyun to consumers around the world.

The commercial captures lively and joyful reactions from consumers and emphasizes how Shin Ramyun delivers a universally enjoyable experience. It also includes an original ‘Shin Ramyun Dance, featuring movements inspired by opening the package, adding water, preparing chopsticks, and finger gestures that represent each letter of ‘SHIN’. The commercial will be released across major overseas regions, including the United States, China, Japan, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

  • Shin Ramyun × aespa Special Package Promotion

Nongshim will also introduce a special ‘aespa Special Package’of Shin Ramyun. The multi-pack will feature a group image of aespa, while single packs will showcase individual members. The package will be launched in China in November, followed by a global rollout including Korea.

In addition, selected Shin Ramyun and Shin Ramyun Toomba multi-packs will include photocards with member photos, handwritten messages, and QR codes linking to exclusive behind-the-scenes videos.

Additional offline activations are planned including branded pop-up experiences and various in-store promotions across global retail channels.

aespa commented, “Shin Ramyun has always been a brand we enjoy in our daily lives, whether on broadcasts or during tours. We’re excited to move from enjoying the product to officially representing it, and we look forward to sharing its appeal with fans around the world.”

Shin Ramyun Global Ad

Nongshim Shin Ramyun Global Ambassador, aespa
Nongshim Shin Ramyun Global Ambassador, aespa

EDMI and Bluecurrent extend partnership to drive intelligent grid transformation across Australia and New Zealand

BRISBANE, Australia, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Global intelligent energy solutions leader EDMI has announced a long-term partnership renewal with Bluecurrent, a leading smart metering and digital services company. The agreement extends a collaboration spanning more than two decades, reaffirming EDMI’s commitment to intelligent, resilient, and data-driven grid solutions across the region.

The collaboration marks one of the first large-scale intelligent grid deployments in Australia, signalling how multi-utility data and edge intelligence are becoming integral to modern grid management. It represents a milestone in the evolution of connected, interoperable energy infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand.

Under the agreement, EDMI will deliver an integrated suite of grid and edge intelligence solutions powered by its NEOS platform, supporting multi-utility revenue metering, intelligent demand response, outage management, and distributed energy resource management (DERMS). Together, these capabilities enable real-time visibility, control, and optimisation across distributed energy networks.

The agreement comes at a time when Australia is entering a new phase of regulatory reform that will accelerate smart meter rollouts through 2030. As volumes increase, metering coordinators are ready to ensure secure, interoperable, and future-ready systems that can adapt to dynamic grid demands. By partnering, EDMI and Bluecurrent are laying the digital foundations for a more connected, flexible, and resilient energy future.

“Partnering with Bluecurrent allows us to extend our multi-utility intelligence platform deeper across the region,” said Roy Kirsopp, Group Chief Executive Officer at EDMI. “Connected metering infrastructure is the foundation of the energy transition, empowering utilities to measure more, understand faster, and act with confidence. Together, we’re scaling the next generation of intelligent grids.”

Richard Fink, Acting chief executive at Bluecurrent, said “This long-term partnership gives us the flexibility, reliability, and digital confidence we need as the smart meter rollout accelerates across Australia. Continuing to work with EDMI reinforces our ability to continue serving our customers securely, efficiently, and sustainably as the industry embraces intelligent grid technologies.”

This partnership underscores a shared commitment to supporting utilities, regulators, and consumers through the energy transition, combining EDMI’s intelligent grid expertise and proven technology with Bluecurrent’s market leadership and operational excellence.

About EDMI

EDMI is a global leader in providing intelligent energy solutions, dedicated to solving the unique challenges faced by the world’s most successful utilities. Our comprehensive range of smart metering and control products, combined with advanced communications and software offerings, enables us to deliver integrated end-to-end solutions tailored to our customers’ needs.

EDMI is owned by Osaki Electric Co., Ltd, a leading Japanese metering solutions provider listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. To learn more about EDMI, visit the EDMI website at www.edmi-meters.com.

About Bluecurrent

Bluecurrent is a leading smart metering and digital services company, operating across Australasia with 2.7 million electricity, gas and water meters, processing more than 2 billion intervals of data a day. Our smart metering data unlocks information, influences behaviour and enables decision making for an electrified, renewable future.

Our purpose of unleashing smarter futures today, for a more sustainable tomorrow, is at the centre of everything we do. In June 2025 we achieved Scientific Business Target initiative (SBTi) verification of our carbon emission reduction near term and net zero targets. Bluecurrent is owned by Vector Ltd and Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC). Visit Bluecurrent’s website at bluecurrent.com.au

WEKA Unveils Next-Gen WEKApod Appliances to Redefine AI Storage Economics

Powered by AlloyFlash, WEKApod Prime Delivers Breakthrough Cost Efficiency with 65% Better Price-Performance; WEKApod Nitro Offers Unprecedented Performance Density with 2x Faster Speeds for Demanding AI Workloads

ST. LOUIS and CAMPBELL, Calif., Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — From SC25: WEKA, the AI storage company, announced the next generation of its WEKApod™ appliances to upend traditional performance-versus-cost trade-offs. The completely redesigned WEKApod Prime appliance achieves 65% better price-performance by intelligently placing data across mixed flash configurations, delivering breakthrough economics without compromise. WEKApod Nitro doubles performance density with refreshed hardware, enabling organizations to accelerate AI and high-performance computing (HPC) innovation, maximize GPU utilization, and serve more customers. Its higher-density design also makes it ideal for large-scale object storage repositories and AI data lakes that demand performance without compromise.

WEKA Unveils Next-Gen WEKApod Appliances to Redefine AI Storage Economics
WEKA Unveils Next-Gen WEKApod Appliances to Redefine AI Storage Economics

WEKApod appliances are the easiest and fastest way to deploy and scale NeuralMesh™ by WEKA, the world’s only storage system purpose-built to accelerate AI at scale. WEKApod delivers NeuralMesh’s software-defined flexibility in ready-to-deploy, pre-validated configurations with a significantly improved setup utility with a plug-and-play experience. Organizations can start with as few as eight servers and scale to hundreds as their deployments grow, eliminating complex integration work while accessing NeuralMesh’s complete enterprise feature set—including distributed data protection, instant snapshots, multi-protocol access, automated tiering, encryption, and hybrid cloud capabilities.

The Infrastructure Efficiency Crisis
Organizations investing in AI infrastructure face mounting pressure to demonstrate ROI as valuable GPU resources sit underutilized, training cycles extend timelines, inference costs consume margins, and cloud bills spiral with data growth. Traditional storage systems force an impossible choice: extreme performance or manageable costs, never both. Meanwhile, datacenter constraints—limited rack space, power budgets, and cooling capacity—mean every rack unit must deliver more capability or infrastructure costs spiral out of control.

The next-generation WEKApod family directly addresses these business challenges head-on. WEKApod Prime eliminates the forced trade-off between performance and cost, delivering 65% better price-performance through intelligent data placement that automatically optimizes placement based on workload characteristics—ensuring writes maintain full performance while achieving breakthrough economics.

Now AI Builders and Cloud Providers Can Eliminate the Performance-Cost Trade-off

WEKApod Prime: offers a unique approach to mixed-flash technology, intelligently combining TLC and eTLC flash drives in configurations supporting up to 20 drives in a 1U rack or 40 drives in a 2U rack configuration. Unlike traditional tiered storage solutions that introduce cache hierarchies, data movement between tiers, and write performance penalties, WEKApod’s AlloyFlash delivers consistent performance across all operations—including full write performance without throttling—while achieving breakthrough economics. No compromises, no write-performance penalties, no cache hierarchies. WEKApod Prime is already being used by leading AI cloud pioneers like the Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI).

The result is exceptional density that directly addresses datacenter resource constraints: 4.6x better capacity density, 5x better write IOPS per rack unit (versus previous generation), 4x better power density at 23,000 IOPS per kW (or 1.6 PB per kW), and 68% less power consumption per terabyte while maintaining the extreme performance AI workloads demand. For write-intensive AI workloads like training and checkpointing, this means storage keeps pace without performance penalties that can idle expensive GPUs during critical operations.

WEKApod Nitro: purpose-built for AI factories running hundreds or thousands of GPUs, delivers 2x faster performance and 60% better price-performance through upgraded hardware, including NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNIC, delivering 800 Gb/s throughput and 20 TLC drives in a compact 1U form factor. As turnkey NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP)-certified appliances, both WEKApod configurations eliminate weeks of integration work, allowing organizations to bring customer services to market in days rather than months while ensuring storage infrastructure keeps pace with next-generation accelerators.

Measurable Business Impact Across AI Deployments

  • For AI Cloud Providers and Neoclouds: Serve more customers profitably with existing infrastructure while maintaining guaranteed performance SLAs. The 65% improvement in price-to-performance directly translates into higher margins for GPU-as-a-service offerings. Faster deployment times mean faster time-to-revenue for new customers.
  • For Enterprises Deploying AI Factories: Deploy AI initiatives in days, not months, with turnkey solutions that eliminate complex integration work, enabling IT teams to achieve enterprise-grade storage performance without specialized expertise. Reduce power consumption by up to 68% through improved density and efficiency, while scaling AI capabilities without proportional increases in datacenter footprint, power, or cooling requirements—delivering measurable infrastructure ROI from day one.
  • For AI Builders and Researchers: Accelerate model development with GPU utilization rates exceeding 90%. Reduce training time to accelerate iteration cycles and gain a competitive advantage. Lower inference costs that make new AI applications economically viable. Start with as few as eight servers and scale to hundreds as needs grow, with complete NeuralMesh enterprise features included by default.

AI infrastructure providers are already seeing direct business impact from these innovations:

“Space and power are the new limits of innovation in data centres. WEKApod’s exceptional storage performance density allows us to deliver hyperscaler-level data throughput and efficiency within an optimised footprint—unlocking more AI capability per kilowatt and square metre,” said Nadia Carlsten, CEO, Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI). “This efficiency directly improves economics and accelerates how we bring AI innovation to our customers.”

“AI investments must demonstrate ROI. WEKApod Prime delivers 65% better price-performance without compromising on speed, while WEKApod Nitro doubles performance to maximize GPU utilization. The result: faster model development, higher inference throughput, and better returns on compute investments that directly impact profitability and time-to-market,” said Ajay Singh, Chief Product Officer at WEKA.

“Networking is essential to AI infrastructure, transforming AI compute and storage into a thinking platform that generates and delivers tokens of digital intelligence at scale,” said Kevin Deierling, senior vice president of Networking at NVIDIA. “With NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet and NVIDIA ConnectX-8 networking at the foundation of WEKApod, WEKA is helping enterprises eliminate data bottlenecks— which is critical to optimize AI performance.”

Availability

Next-generation WEKApod appliances are available now. Organizations can learn more at weka.io/wekapod or visit WEKA at SuperComputing 2025, booth #2215.

About WEKA

WEKA is transforming how organizations build, run, and scale AI workflows with NeuralMesh™ by WEKA®, its intelligent, adaptive mesh storage system. Unlike traditional data infrastructure, which becomes slower and more fragile as workloads expand, NeuralMesh becomes faster, stronger, and more efficient as it scales, dynamically adapting to AI environments to provide a flexible foundation for enterprise AI and agentic AI innovation. Trusted by 30% of the Fortune 50, NeuralMesh helps leading enterprises, AI cloud providers, and AI builders optimize GPUs, scale AI faster, and reduce innovation costs. Learn more at www.weka.io or connect with us on LinkedIn and X.

WEKA and the W logo are registered trademarks of WekaIO, Inc. Other trade names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.


 

Rafa Laboratories Awarded up to $186 Million by BARDA to Develop a Life-Saving Intramuscular TXA Injection for Prehospital Care

JERUSALEM, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Rafa Laboratories, a global leader in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear hazards medical countermeasures and Biodefense, today announced it has been awarded with a landmark development contract by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response  at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for the advanced development of a novel intramuscular (IM) formulation of tranexamic acid (TXA)—a potentially life-saving therapy for uncontrolled bleeding. The contract is valued at up to $186 million, including all option periods.

This pivotal collaboration, which represents Rafa’s second major contract with BARDA, addresses an urgent global need: a rapidly deployable, easy-to-administer treatment for hemorrhage in the critical prehospital setting.

 Addressing the Critical Window to Save Lives

Uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of preventable death following trauma, whether caused by accidents, mass-casualty events or in the battlefield. Caregivers need a tool which can be easily administered to a large number of casualties in a short period of time. TXA is an antifibrinolytic agent commonly used off label around the world to treat trauma bleeding in the pre-hospital and hospital space.

Landmark clinical studies performed in tens of thousands of individuals have demonstrated that TXA can significantly reduce mortality rates if administered quickly enough following trauma hemorrhagic injury.

“The clock starts ticking the moment a patient sustains a hemorrhagic injury, and the few minutes before reaching a hospital are the most critical ones,” said Roy Shay, Vice President of Biodefense at Rafa Laboratories. “Currently, TXA is typically administered intravenously (IV), which is challenging, time-consuming and requires training.  The need for trained individuals even greater in high-stress, or mass-casualty situations. Developing a new intramuscular TXA injection is a potential game-changer as it simplifies the administration process, especially if administered with an autoinjector.

As planned under the potential scope of this project, Rafa shall also develop a TXA autoinjector which will enable  professional as well as nonprofessional care givers to deliver this essential treatment instantly—dramatically increasing survival chances worldwide.”

“The IM route offers a fast, reliable, and user-friendly alternative for the existing IV administration, which can be extremely difficult in patients experiencing severe shock”.

BARDA and Rafa are Collaborating on a Comprehensive Development Approach

Rafa Laboratoriesis adopting a robust and integrated product development approach, which is planned to include formulation development, manufacturing scale-up, pre/clinical trials and a streamlined regulatory pathway designed to secure U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

“Over the past four decades, Rafa has built a reputation for developing highly dependable medical countermeasures targeting acute, life-threatening conditions, mainly CBRN and pain management.” said Iddo Leshem, Chief Executive Officer of Rafa Laboratories. “The IM TXA development contract marks a strategic expansion of Rafa’s presence in acute trauma care. We are deeply committed to partnering with BARDA to accelerate the delivery of this urgently needed, life-saving solution to hundreds of thousands of patients across the globe”.

About Rafa Laboratories

Founded in 1937 and headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel, Rafa Laboratories is a global leader in biodefense and emergency medical solutions. For more than 40 years, Rafa has supplied medical countermeasure autoinjectors to the U.S. federal government, NATO allies, military forces, and civilian stockpiles worldwide, including its Midazolam 10 mg autoinjector (US-FDA approved under NDA #216359 since 2022) and Atropine autoinjector (US-FDA approved under NDA #212319 for 2 mg since 2018 and EUA # for 0.5 & 1 mg since 2017). The company’s expertise spans the entire value chain — from a robust R&D pipeline addressing emerging threats, to cGMP-compliant manufacturing and successful regulatory approvals from the U.S. FDA and European health authorities.

Rafa’s controlling shareholder, FIMI Opportunity Funds, is Israel’s leading private equity fund. With over 25 years of experience, FIMI manages assets of $7 billion and has completed nearly 100 investments globally.

This project has been supported in whole or in part with federal funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), under contract number  75A50125C00018.

Media Contact:
Roy Shay
VP, Biodefense
Rafa Laboratories
roys@rafa.co.il 

 

WEKA Breaks The AI Memory Barrier With Augmented Memory Grid on NeuralMesh

Breakthrough Memory Extension Technology, Validated on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Democratizes Inference, Delivering 1000x More Memory and 20x Faster Time to First Token for NeuralMesh Customers

ST. LOUIS and CAMPBELL, Calif., Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — From SC25: WEKA, the AI storage company, today announced the commercial availability of Augmented Memory Grid™ on NeuralMesh™, a revolutionary memory extension technology that solves the fundamental bottleneck throttling AI innovation: GPU memory. Validated on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and other leading AI cloud platforms, Augmented Memory Grid extends GPU memory capacity by 1000x, from gigabytes to petabytes, while reducing time-to-first-token by up to 20x. This breakthrough enables AI builders to streamline long-context reasoning and agentic AI workflows, dramatically improving the efficiency of inference workloads that have previously been challenging to scale.

WEKA's breakthrough Augmented Memory Grid is now available on NeuralMesh.
WEKA’s breakthrough Augmented Memory Grid is now available on NeuralMesh.

From Innovation to Production: Solving For The AI Memory Wall
Since its introduction at NVIDIA GTC 2025, Augmented Memory Grid has been hardened, tested, and validated in leading production AI cloud environments, starting with OCI. The results have confirmed what early testing indicated: as AI systems evolve toward longer, more complex interactions—from coding copilots to research assistants and reasoning agents—memory has become the critical bottleneck limiting inference performance and economics.

“We’re bringing to market a proven solution validated with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and other leading AI infrastructure platforms,” said Liran Zvibel, co-founder and CEO at WEKA. “Scaling agentic AI isn’t just about raw compute—it’s about solving the memory wall with intelligent data pathways. Augmented Memory Grid enables customers to run more tokens per GPU, support more concurrent users, and unlock entirely new service models for long-context workloads. OCI’s bare metal infrastructure with high-performance RDMA networking and GPUDirect Storage capabilities makes it a unique platform for accelerating inference at scale.”

Today’s inference systems face a fundamental constraint: GPU high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is extraordinarily fast but limited in capacity, while system DRAM offers more space but far less bandwidth. Once both tiers fill, key-value cache (KV cache) entries are evicted and GPUs are forced to recompute tokens they’ve already processed—wasting cycles, power, and time.

WEKA’s Augmented Memory Grid breaks through the GPU memory wall by creating a high-speed bridge between GPU memory (typically HBM) and flash-based storage. It continuously streams key-value cache data between GPU memory and WEKA’s token warehouse, using RDMA and NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage to achieve memory speeds. This allows large language and agentic AI models to access far more context without having to recompute previously computed KV cache or previously generated tokens, dramatically improving efficiency and scalability.

OCI-Tested Performance and Ecosystem Integration
Independent testing, including validation on OCI, has confirmed:

  • 1000x more KV cache capacity while maintaining near-memory performance.
  • 20x faster time to first token when processing 128,000 tokens compared to recomputing the prefill phase.
  • 7.5M read IOPs and 1.0M write IOPs in an eight-node cluster.

For AI cloud providers, model providers, and enterprise AI builders, these performance gains fundamentally change inference economics. By eliminating redundant prefill operations and sustaining high cache hit rates, organizations can maximize tenant density, reduce idle GPU cycles, and dramatically improve ROI per kilowatt-hour. Model providers can now profitably serve long-context models, slashing input token costs and enabling entirely new business models around persistent, stateful AI sessions.

The move to commercial availability reflects deep collaboration with leading AI infrastructure collaborators, including NVIDIA and Oracle. The solution integrates tightly with NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage, NVIDIA Dynamo, and NVIDIA NIXL, with WEKA having open-sourced a dedicated plugin for the NVIDIA Inference Transfer Library (NIXL). OCI’s bare-metal GPU compute with RDMA networking and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage capabilities provides the high-performance foundation WEKA needs to deliver an Augmented Memory Grid without performance compromises in cloud-based AI deployments.

“The economics of large-scale inference are a major consideration for enterprises,” said Nathan Thomas, vice president, multicloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “WEKA’s Augmented Memory Grid directly confronts this challenge. “The 20x improvement in time-to-first-token we observed in joint testing on OCI isn’t just a performance metric; it fundamentally reshapes the cost structure of running AI workloads. For our customers, this makes deploying the next generation of AI easier and cheaper.”

Commercial Availability
Augmented Memory Grid is now included as a feature for NeuralMesh deployments and on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, with support for additional cloud platforms coming soon.

Organizations interested in deploying Augmented Memory Grid should visit WEKA’s Augmented Memory Grid page to learn more about the solution and the qualification criteria.

About WEKA
WEKA is transforming how organizations build, run, and scale AI workflows with NeuralMesh™, its intelligent, adaptive mesh storage system. Unlike traditional data infrastructure, which becomes slower and more fragile as workloads expand, NeuralMesh becomes faster, stronger, and more efficient as it scales, dynamically adapting to AI environments to provide a flexible foundation for enterprise AI and agentic AI innovation. Trusted by 30% of the Fortune 50, NeuralMesh helps leading enterprises, AI cloud providers, and AI builders optimize GPUs, scale AI faster, and reduce innovation costs. Learn more at www.weka.io or connect with us on LinkedIn and X.

WEKA and the W logo are registered trademarks of WekaIO, Inc. Other trade names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

WEKA: The Foundation for Enterprise AI
WEKA: The Foundation for Enterprise AI

 

Texxon Holding Limited Announces Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2025

SHANGHAI, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Texxon Holding Limited (Nasdaq: NPT) (the “Company” or “Texxon”), a leading provider of supply chain management services in the plastics and chemical industries in East China, today announced its financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025.

Mr. Hui Xu, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Texxon, commented: “We are pleased to report strong results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025. To align with evolving market conditions and the broader industry environment, we implemented a strategic shift in our sales and marketing efforts toward high-growth sectors such as automotive, new energy, and chemical industries. Leveraging our core strengths in basic chemicals and plastic particles, we expanded our sales team to further broaden our customer base, market coverage, and penetration across China.”

“The refinement of our basic chemical product portfolio contributed to an improved average selling price. Our plastic particle sales surged as sales volume increased in response to increased demand, driven by their expanded application in new fields such as automotive, new energy and chemical industries, despite a decline in selling prices. Collectively, these initiatives drove an 18.5% increase in overall revenue, highlighted by an 88.5% surge in plastic-particle sales, while basic-chemical sales slightly grew 1.5%.”

“We prioritized business scale and long-term customer relationships over short-term margin gains. While this strategy temporarily compressed gross margin and profit, we believe it will strengthen customer retention, stabilize cash flows, and support sustainable profitability over the long term.”

“We are accelerating the construction of a factory to manufacture polystyrene, including production lines, storage facilities, and supporting infrastructure, located in Henan Province, China (the “Henan Polystyrene Factory”), which is scheduled to begin production in the fourth quarter of 2025. Once operational, we expect it will enable us to better meet market demand and capture higher margins amid potential shortages in chemical and plastic raw materials.”

“Looking ahead, we remain committed to achieving profitable growth through enhanced operational efficiency, deeper customer relationships, and disciplined product portfolio and pricing strategies. We believe, these initiatives will support long-term shareholder value and position Texxon for continued growth in an increasingly dynamic market.”

Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Summary 

  • Revenue was $797.15 million for fiscal year 2025, representing an increase of 18.5% from $672.66 million for fiscal year 2024.
  • Gross profit was $4.70 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to $4.82 million for fiscal year 2024.
  • Gross profit margin was 0.6% for fiscal year 2025, compared to 0.7% for fiscal year 2024.
  • Net loss was $1.45 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to net income of $2.51 million for fiscal year 2024.
  • Net loss attributable to Texxon was $0.93 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to net income attributable to Texxon of $0.95 million for fiscal year 2024.
  • Basic and diluted losses per share were $0.05 for fiscal year 2025, compared to basic and diluted earnings per share of $0.05 for fiscal year 2024.

Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results 

Revenue

Revenue was $797.15 million for fiscal year 2025, representing an increase of 18.5% from $672.66 million for fiscal year 2024.

 (($ millions, except for percentages)

For the Fiscal Year Ended

June 30,

Change

In million

2025

%

2024

%

$

%

Revenue:

Basic chemicals

$

524.64

65.8

%

$

517.03

76.9

%

$

7.61

1.5

%

Plastic particles

272.39

34.2

%

144.50

21.5

%

127.89

88.5

%

Other products

0.12

0.0

%

11.13

1.6

%

(11.02)

(98.9)

%

Total revenue

$

797.15

100

%

$

672.66

100

%

$

124.49

18.5

%

 

  • Sales of basic chemicals were $524.64 million for fiscal year 2025, representing an increase of 1.5% from $517.03 million for fiscal year 2024. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in average sales price.
  • Sales of plastic particles were $272.39 million for fiscal year 2025, representing an increase of 88.5% from $144.50 million for fiscal year 2024. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in sales volume.
  • Sales of other products were $0.12 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to $11.13 million for fiscal year 2024. The decrease in revenue was primarily attributable to no sales of black metal for the fiscal year 2025, which had contributed approximately $11.0 million revenue from sales of other products for the fiscal year 2024.

Cost of Sales

Cost of sales was $792.45 million for fiscal year 2025, representing an increase of 18.7% from $667.85 million for fiscal year 2024. The increase in cost of sales was largely attributable to the increase in the Company’s sales volume of plastic particles by approximately 188.7 thousand tons, or 138.3%. The increase in cost of sales is in line with the increase in revenue.

Gross Profit and Gross Profit Margin

Gross profit was $4.70 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to $4.82 million for fiscal year 2024.

Gross profit margin was 0.6% for fiscal year 2025, compared to 0.7% for fiscal year 2024. Gross profit and gross margin decreased primarily due to the Company’s strategic shift toward serving major customers, to whom the Company offered more competitive pricing. The Company prioritized expanding business scale and strengthening long-term customer relationships over pursuing short-term high-margin transactions. This strategy temporarily reduced gross margin but is expected to enhance customer retention, stabilize cash flows, and support sustainable profitability growth in the long term.

Operating Expenses

Operating expenses were $5.30 million for fiscal year 2025, representing an increase of 27.5% from $4.16 million for fiscal year 2024.

  • Selling expenses were $2.41 million for fiscal year 2025, representing an increase of 21.2% from $1.99 million for fiscal year 2024. The increase in selling expenses was mainly due to (i) salary and welfare benefit expenses increased by approximately $0.3 million mainly due to the addition of marketing personnel to support the Company’s business expansion and higher commissions and bonuses paid to sales staff in connection with the increase in sales; (ii) shipping and delivery expenses increased by approximately $0.1 million, or 7.2%, from approximately $1.0 million for the fiscal year 2024 to approximately $1.1 million for the fiscal year 2025. This increase was primarily due to an increase in sales volume and increased use of third-party shipping services for the sale of plastic particles. The total sales volume of plastic particles increased by 189 thousand tons, or 138.8%, from 136.0 thousand tons for the fiscal year 2024 to 324.8 thousand tons for the fiscal year 2025.
  • General and administrative expenses were $2.89 million for fiscal year 2025, representing an increase of 33.3% from $2.17 million for fiscal year 2024. The increase was mainly due to (i) an expected credit loss of approximately $0.7 million for the fiscal year 2025, compared to $1,385 of credit loss recovered for the fiscal year 2024, primarily due to full credit losses established against specific customer receivables following assessment of credit deterioration; and (ii) an increase in salary and welfare benefit expenses of approximately $0.1 million due to an increase in personnel in general and administrative department, (iii) an increase in depreciation and amortization expenses of approximately $0.1 million, partially offset by (iv) a decrease in professional services fee of approximately $0.2 million.
  • Other expenses were $1.37 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to other income of $2.57 million for fiscal year 2024. The decrease was primarily attributable to one-time government grants of approximately $2.9 million received in connection with the construction of Henan Polystyrene Factory, which are recognized as a reduction of the cost of construction in progress rather than as other income.

Net Income (loss)

Net loss was $1.45 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to net income of $2.51 million for fiscal year 2024. Net loss attributable to Texxon was $0.93 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to net income attributable to Texxon of $0.95 million for fiscal year 2024.

Basic and Diluted Earnings (losses) per Share

Basic and diluted losses per share were $0.05 for fiscal year 2025, compared to basic and diluted earnings per share of $0.05 for fiscal year 2024.

Financial Condition

As of June 30, 2025, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of $2.52 million, an increase from $0.27 million as of June 30, 2024.

Net cash provided by operating activities was $2.32 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to net cash used in operating activities of $30.80 million for fiscal year 2024.

Net cash used in investing activities was $42.25 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to $11.02 million for fiscal year 2024.

Net cash provided by financing activities was $41.36 million for fiscal year 2025, compared to $29.36 million for fiscal year 2024.

Recent Development

On October 23, 2025, the Company completed its initial public offering (the “Offering”) of 1,900,000 ordinary shares at a public price of US$5.00 per share. On October 28, 2025, the underwriters of the Offering fully exercised their over-allotment option to purchase an additional 285,000 ordinary shares of the Company at the public offering price of US$5.00 per share. The gross proceeds were US$10,925,000 from the Offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, and other expenses. The Company’s ordinary shares began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market on October 22, 2025, under the ticker symbol “NPT.”

About Texxon Holding Limited

Texxon Holding Limited is a leading provider of supply chain management services in the plastics and chemical industries in East China. Through its technology-enabled platform, the Company provides a full spectrum of services to Chinese SME customers, including procurement, shipping and logistics, payments and fulfillment services. It aspires to build the largest one-stop plastic and chemical raw material supply chain management platform in China, to streamline the complex and labor-intensive raw material procurement process and enhance convenience, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency for customers. Texxon has built a highly scalable distributed software architecture for continuous improvement, and an effective User Experience Design (UED) process to improve the customer experience. In addition, with over a decade of experience, the Company has amassed substantial transaction data, including supplier and customer information, price trends, category-specific price indexes and market demand volume, to analyze price trends and market demands and make informed decisions. For more information, please visit the Company’s website: ir.npt-cn.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this announcement are forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the timeline and effects regarding the construction and production of the Henan Polystyrene Factory. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties related to market conditions, and other factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and are based on the Company’s current expectations and projections about future events that the Company believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Investors can find many (but not all) of these statements by the use of words such as “approximates,” “believes,” “hopes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “will,” “would,” “should,” “could,” “may” or other similar expressions. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results and encourages investors to review other factors that may affect its future results in the Company’s latest annual report on Form 20-F and other filings with the SEC. Additional factors are discussed in the Company’s filings with the SEC, which are available for review at www.sec.gov.

For more information, please contact:

Texxon Holding Limited
Investor Relations Department
Email: ir@totrade.cn

Ascent Investor Relations LLC
Tina Xiao
Phone: +1-646-932-7242
Email: investors@ascent-ir.com 

 

TEXXON HOLDING LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

AS OF JUNE 30, 2025 AND 2024

(EXPRESSED IN U.S. DOLLARS)

June 30,

2025

June 30,

2024

ASSETS

CURRENT ASSETS:

Cash and cash equivalents

$

2,517,577

$

272,895

Restricted cash

562

785,105

Accounts receivable, net

7,522,465

11,094,702

Note receivables

1,885,183

Advanced to suppliers

2,675,445

1,632,975

Inventories

973,644

873,720

Loan to a related party

153,554

151,365

Prepayments and other current assets

6,918,026

1,353,457

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS

20,761,273

18,049,402

NON-CURRENT ASSETS:

Property, plant and equipment, net

84,623,119

23,363,352

Intangible assets, net

6,164,781

6,207,309

Prepayments for long-term assets

24,522,149

39,307,235

Deferred offering costs

634,978

538,584

Equity investment

2,261,433

2,229,194

TOTAL NON-CURRENT ASSETS

118,206,460

71,645,674

TOTAL ASSETS

$

138,967,733

$

89,695,076

LIABILITIES

CURRENT LIABILITIES:

Short-term borrowings

$

20,624,062

$

25,788,560

Accounts payable

763,343

1,294,480

Contract liabilities

2,272,179

637,537

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

19,258,940

9,790,325

Due to related parties

29,826,131

19,807,637

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES

72,744,655

57,318,539

NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES:

Long-term borrowings

32,175,020

TOTAL LIABILITIES

$

104,919,675

$

57,318,539

Commitments and contingencies (Note 16)

SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT):

Ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value, 500,000,000 shares authorized,
20,000,000 and 20,000,000 shares issued and outstanding as of
June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.*

2,000

2,000

Additional paid-in capital*

777,992

777,992

Accumulated deficit

(4,316,467)

(3,383,846)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

(275,578)

(245,500)

SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO TEXXON HOLDING LIMITED                       

(3,812,053)

(2,849,354)

Non-controlling interests

37,860,111

35,225,891

TOTAL EQUITY

34,048,058

32,376,537

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

$

138,967,733

89,695,076

*

Shares presented on a retroactive basis to reflect the reorganization.

 

TEXXON HOLDING LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME/(LOSS)

FOR THE FISCAL YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2025, 2024 AND 2023

(EXPRESSED IN U.S. DOLLARS)

For the Fiscal Year ended

June 30,

2025

2024

2023

REVENUE

Sales revenue generated from third parties

$

797,148,640

$

672,662,697

$

549,879,053

Sales revenue generated from related parties

2,647,129

Total revenue

797,148,640

672,662,697

552,526,182

COST OF SALES

Cost of sales charged by third parties

(789,783,093)

(662,621,392)

(541,218,715)

Cost of sales charged by related parties

(2,015,752)

(4,987,246)

(7,569,836)

Tax and surcharges

(649,245)

(236,983)

(204,138)

Total cost of sales

(792,448,090)

(667,845,621)

(548,992,689)

GROSS PROFIT

4,700,550

4,817,076

3,533,493

OPERATING EXPENSES

Selling and marketing expenses

(2,413,149)

(1,990,991)

(996,638)

General and administrative expenses

(2,888,047)

(2,166,116)

(1,282,757)

Total operating expenses

(5,301,196)

(4,157,107)

(2,279,395)

(LOSS) INCOME FROM OPERATIONS

$

(600,646)

$

659,969

$

1,254,098

OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES):

Interest (expenses) income, net

(408,843)

(470,288)

197,428

Interest income – related parties

34,922

592,581

Other income, net

55,680

105,603

86,585

Government grants

216,574

2,896,219

Total other income (expenses), net

(136,589)

2,566,456

876,594

INCOME (LOSS) BEFORE PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES

(737,235)

3,226,425

2,130,692

INCOME TAXES EXPENSES

(716,897)

(716,782)

(42,998)

NET INCOME (LOSS)

(1,454,132)

2,509,643

2,087,694

Less: net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest

(521,511)

1,556,083

65,542

NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO TEXXON HOLDING LIMITED

(932,621)

953,560

2,022,152

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

Foreign currency translation income (loss)

469,036

1,218,751

(1,502,270)

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

$

(985,096)

$

3,728,394

$

585,424

Less: comprehensive income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests

(22,397)

1,528,622

(471,406)

COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO TEXXON
HOLDING LIMITED

(962,699)

2,199,772

1,056,830

BASIC AND DILUTED EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE:

Net income (loss) attributable to Texxon Holding Limited per share

Basic and diluted

$

(0.05)

$

0.05

$

0.10

Weighted average shares outstanding used in calculating basic and
diluted income per share*

Basic and diluted

20,000,000

20,000,000

20,000,000

*

Shares presented on a retroactive basis to reflect the reorganization.

 

TEXXON HOLDING LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

FOR THE FISCAL YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2025, 2024 AND 2023

(EXPRESSED IN U.S. DOLLARS)

For the fiscal year ended

June 30,

2025

2024

2023

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

Net income (loss)

$

(1,454,132)

$

2,509,643

$

2,087,694

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided
by (used in) operating activities:

Depreciation and amortization

288,072

332,728

251,081

Interest income from a related party

(34,922)

(592,581)

Allowance (recovery) for credit losses

720,054

(1,385)

(220,339)

Loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment

50,236

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

Accounts receivable

2,986,453

(7,512,856)

3,711,146

Notes receivable

1,899,032

(1,896,246)

Inventories

(86,676)

(466,902)

(358,965)

Advanced to suppliers

(1,011,848)

147,725

(1,447,491)

Prepayments and other current assets

(3,315,341)

(559,757)

117,283

Notes payable

(13,828,757)

(24,696,655)

Accounts payable

(546,002)

(10,429,603)

4,486,026

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

1,231,325

1,902,256

1,389,576

Contract liabilities

1,614,022

(957,134)

1,043,235

NET CASH PROVIDED BY (USED IN) OPERATING ACTIVITIES            

2,324,959

(30,795,210)

(14,179,754)

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

Purchase of plant, property and equipment

(45,103,546)

(33,338,925)

(22,615,531)

Purchase of intangible assets

(6,805)

(6,683,817)

Payments made for loans to related parties

(152,253)

(11,931,168)

Government grant received in connection with the construction of
plant, property and equipment

2,853,622

Loan repayment from a related party

22,478,306

NET CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES

(42,249,924)

(11,019,677)

(41,230,516)

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

Proceeds from short-term borrowings

154,521,737

141,956,726

22,969,397

Proceeds from long-term borrowings

30,105,666

Repayment of short-term borrowings

(154,473,136)

(127,367,676)

(12,327,428)

Capital contribution from non-controlling interests

2,647,556

9,254,357

18,260,003

Financing cost paid for the syndicated loan

(1,011,893)

Withdrawal of capital by non-controlling interests

(1,460,814)

Capital contribution from shareholder

1,405,778

Payments made to shareholders to acquire Net Plastic Technology
for the Reorganization

(12,226,342)

Proceeds from related parties

9,663,775

19,747,892

106,062

Payments made for deferred offering costs

(93,243)

(539,639)

NET CASH PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES

41,360,462

29,364,504

30,413,812

EFFECT OF EXCHANGE RATE CHANGE ON CASH, CASH
EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH

24,642

1,326,240

(1,559,510)

NET CHANGE IN CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND
RESTRICTED CASH

1,460,139

(11,124,143)

(26,555,968)

CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED
CASH – beginning of year

1,058,000

12,182,143

38,738,111

CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED
CASH – end of year

$

2,518,139

$

1,058,000

$

12,182,143

SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW DISCLOSURES:

Cash paid for income taxes

(10,202)

(432)

(785)

Cash paid for interest

(1,942,702)

(549,534)

(361,912)

Cash received from interest income

1,845

226,831

508,742

SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF NON-CASH ACTIVITIES:

Payable related to purchase of property, plant, and equipment

5,318,449

6,069,298

1,385,669

Prepayment for long-term assets transferred to property, plant and
equipment

19,262,697

4,516,656

Convertible loan transfer to other payables

Interest receivable accrued related to loan to a related party

34,922

592,581

Cash and cash equivalents

2,517,577

272,895

1,328,917

Restricted cash

562

785,105

10,853,226

Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash

2,518,139

1,058,000

12,182,143

 

Kazia Therapeutics Achieves Initial iCR (Immune-Complete Response) in Metastatic TNBC and Delivers Q4 Business Update with Breakthroughs Across Breast Cancer, Immuno-Oncology, and GBM Regulatory Strategy

SYDNEY, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Kazia Therapeutics Limited (Nasdaq: KZIA), an oncology-focused drug development company, today announced that a patient with stage IV triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) treated under an FDA-authorized single-patient expanded access protocol combining paxalisib with pembrolizumab (Keytruda®) and standard chemotherapy has achieved an initial immune-complete response (iCR) per iRECIST criteria. This outcome suggests a profound radiologic response in a highly aggressive metastatic cancer subtype.

This development builds upon Kazia’s October 2, 2025 announcement reporting an 86% reduction in tumor burden after only three weeks of treatment in the same patient. A PET/CT scan performed after approximately three months of therapy demonstrated complete metabolic resolution of all previously identified lesions, consistent with an initial iCR. The patient remains on therapy and under active clinical monitoring. A follow-up scan will be conducted in accordance with immune-based response assessment guidelines to confirm the initial scan.

Complete responses in stage IV metastatic TNBC are exceedingly uncommon across many therapeutic classes, including immunotherapy, chemotherapy, and antibody–drug conjugates. For example, pembrolizumab monotherapy has demonstrated complete response rates of approximately 0.6–4% in metastatic TNBC across KEYNOTE studies, and even the most active approved agents—such as sacituzumab govitecan—have reported complete response rates of only ~2–4% in large Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials.

In this setting, any radiologic finding consistent with an immune-complete response (iCR), even prior to confirmatory imaging, represents a highly unusual event which stands out relative to historical benchmarks for metastatic TNBC. These data may suggest enhanced biological activity of the combination regimen and warrant continued follow-up under iRECIST guidelines.

“Observing an initial complete response in a patient with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer is an extremely encouraging clinical finding,” said Dr. John Friend, Chief Executive Officer of Kazia Therapeutics. “Although this is a single expanded-access case and requires confirmatory imaging, the depth of response aligns closely with our mechanistic hypothesis that paxalisib may meaningfully enhance anti-tumor immunity when combined with checkpoint blockade. This outcome further energizes our Phase 1b program in advanced breast cancer and complements significant progress across our broader pipeline.”

Q4 BUSINESS UPDATE

1. Kazia Announces upcoming presentations related to paxalisib and NDL2 programs

Kazia is pleased to announce the acceptance of two scientific presentations at the 2025 Brisbane Cancer Conference, scheduled to take place on 27–28 November 2025 in Brisbane, Australia.

The Brisbane Cancer Conference is a premier oncology meeting that brings together leading international researchers, clinicians and industry experts working in the fields of translational oncology, molecular medicine and cellular therapeutics.

The following presentations will take on November 27, 2025:

“From bench to bedside: targeting epigenetic pathways to overcome metastasis and immunotherapy resistance in TNBC” – Sudha Rao, PhD, QIMR Berghofer (Australia)

Epigenetic checkpoint blockade: A new booster to enhance immunogenicity” Sherry Tu, PhD, QIMR Berghofer (Australia)

Kazia is proud to announce acceptance of two scientific presentations at the 2025 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) to be held December 10–14, 2025. SABCS is the largest and most influential breast cancer meeting globally, drawing more than 10,000 international experts in clinical oncology, translational science, immunotherapy, and molecular diagnostics.

December 10, 2025 — PS2-10-02

“Liquid Biopsy Tracking of PI3K-mTOR Residual Disease Signatures in Metastatic Breast Cancer”, Presenter: Prof. Sudha Rao, QIMR Berghofer (Australia)

December 12, 2025 — PS5-08-04

“A Phase 1b, Multi-Centre, Open-Label, Randomized Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Clinical Activity of Combining Paxalisib with Olaparib or Pembrolizumab/Chemotherapy in Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer”, Presenter: Dr. Michelle Nottage, The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (Australia)

“SABCS is the pinnacle global meeting for breast cancer research. Being selected for two presentations is both an honor and a strong validation of our scientific direction,” stated Dr. Friend.

2. NDL2 PD-L1 Degrader Program: Advancing Toward IND-Enabling Studies anticipated in Early 2026

As announced in September 2025, Kazia entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement with QIMR Berghofer covering the first in class NDL2 PD-L1 degrader program. PD-L1 degraders represent the next frontier in immuno-oncology, using a dual-mechanism approach is designed to specifically recognize and degrade the resistant, post-translationally modified forms of the PD-L1 protein. This strategy may address resistance mechanisms that limit current checkpoint inhibitors. Kazia expects to initiate IND-enabling preclinical studies in early 2026.

3. GBM Program: Advancing Toward a FDA Type C Meeting Request Following Strong Overall Survival Signals

As detailed in the October 24, 2025 press release, Kazia intends to request a follow-up Type C meeting with the FDA to discuss the overall survival paxalisib findings from our completed clinical studies, alignment with the Project FrontRunner framework, potential requirements for a confirmatory study, and elements needed for a possible NDA submission pathway for paxalisib in newly diagnosed glioblastoma. 

“We believe paxalisib’s OS data strongly justify continued engagement with the FDA and may support a more efficient regulatory strategy under Project FrontRunner,” stated Dr. Friend.

4. As previously disclosed, Kazia received a notice (the “Notice”) from the Listing Qualifications department (the “Staff”) of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) on May 12, 2025 notifying the Company that from March 28, 2025 to May 9, 2025, the Company’s Market Value of Listed Securities (“MVLS”) was below the minimum of $35 million required for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(2) (the “MVLS Requirement”). In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(C), Nasdaq provided the Company with 180 calendar days, or until November 10, 2025 to regain compliance with the MVLS Requirement.

On November 12, 2025, Kazia received a staff determination letter (“Staff Letter”) from the Staff of Nasdaq indicating that the Company had not regained compliance with the MVLS Requirement by November 10, 2025. Pursuant to the Nasdaq Listing Rules and the Staff Letter, unless the Company timely requests a hearing before a Hearings Panel (the “Panel”), the Company’s American Depositary Shares would be subject to suspension/delisting . The Staff Letter has no immediate effect on listing or trading, and the Company intends to timely request a hearing before the Panel, which will automatically stay any suspension or delisting action pending the outcome of the hearing.  The Company believes there are remedies available to potentially stop the proceedings and is evaluating corporate and market-based options, including alternative Nasdaq equity requirements to regain compliance.

For investor and media, please contact Alex Star, Managing Director LifeSci Advisors LLC,  Astarr@lifesciadvisors.com, +1-201-786-8795.

About Kazia Therapeutics

Kazia Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: KZIA) is an oncology-focused drug development company, based in Sydney, Australia. Our lead program is paxalisib, an investigational brain penetrant inhibitor of the PI3K / Akt / mTOR pathway, which is being developed to treat multiple forms of cancer. Licensed from Genentech in late 2016, paxalisib is or has been the subject of ten clinical trials in this disease. A completed Phase 2/3 study in glioblastoma (GBM-Agile) was reported in 2024 and discussions are ongoing for designing and executing a pivotal registrational study in pursuit of a standard approval. Other clinical trials involving paxalisib are ongoing in advanced breast cancer, brain metastases, diffuse midline gliomas, and primary central nervous system lymphoma, with several of these trials having reported encouraging interim data. Paxalisib was granted Orphan Drug Designation for glioblastoma by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in February 2018, and Fast Track Designation (FTD) for glioblastoma by the FDA in August 2020. Paxalisib was also granted FTD in July 2023 for the treatment of solid tumor brain metastases harboring PI3K pathway mutations in combination with radiation therapy. In addition, paxalisib was granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation and Orphan Drug Designation by the FDA for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma in August 2020, and for atypical teratoid / rhabdoid tumors in June 2022 and July 2022, respectively. Kazia is also developing EVT801, a small molecule inhibitor of VEGFR3, which was licensed from Evotec SE in April 2021. Preclinical data has shown EVT801 to be active against a broad range of tumor types and has provided evidence of synergy with immuno-oncology agents. A Phase I study has been completed and preliminary data was presented at 15th Biennial Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium in September 2024. For more information, please visit www.kaziatherapeutics.com or follow us on X @KaziaTx.

Forward-Looking Statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements, which can generally be identified as such by the use of words such as “may,” “will,” “plan,” “intend,” “estimate,” “future,” “forward,” “potential,” “anticipate,” or other similar words. Any statement describing Kazia’s future plans, strategies, intentions, expectations, objectives, goals or prospects, and other statements that are not historical facts, are also forward looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding: additional confirmatory imaging and analysis to be performed on the TNBC patient treated with paxalisib and pembrolizumab (Keytruda®), the potential benefits of NDL2 and the plans and goals of developing NDL2 formulation, the anticipated development pathways and combinations of NDL2, the timing for results and data related to Kazia’s clinical and preclinical trials, the upcoming scientific presentations, Kazia’s intention to request and hold a Type C meeting with the FDA to discuss OS findings in GBM patients treated with paxalisib and to seek agency feedback on a potential regulatory pathway, the plan to propose initiation of the post-approval, randomized Phase 3 confirmatory study prior to submission of the NDA, the intention to present survival analyses, supporting clinical safety and planned confirmatory trial design for FDA discussion, Kazia’s intention to reference Project FrontRunner principles in its Type C briefing package, the objective to work collaboratively with the FDA under the guiding principles of Project FrontRunner, the plan to pursue a conditional approval in the front-line treatment setting of GBM, the plan to initiate the post-approval, randomized Phase 3 study prior to filing the NDA, the goal of ensuring that Kazia’s development plan and regulatory strategy fully reflects and aligns with the FDA’s framework and emphasis, the timing for results and data related to Kazia’s clinical and preclinical trials, Kazia’s strategy and plans with respect to its paxalisib program, the potential benefits of paxalisib, timing for any regulatory submissions or discussions with regulatory agencies and the potential market opportunity for paxalisib, regaining compliance with the MVLS Requirement and any other Nasdaq listing requirements, the timing and likelihood of requesting and successfully completing a hearing before the Panel and maintaining Kazia’s listing on Nasdaq. Such statements are based on Kazia’s current expectations and projections about future events and future trends affecting its business and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, including risks and uncertainties associated with clinical and preclinical trials and product development, including the risk that interim or early data may not be consistent with final data, risks related to regulatory approvals, risks related to the impact of global economic conditions, and risks related to Kazia’s ability to regain and/or maintain compliance with the applicable Nasdaq continued listing requirements and standards. These and other risks and uncertainties are described more fully in Kazia’s most recent Annual Report on form 20-F filed with the SEC, and in subsequent filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Kazia undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required under applicable law. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this announcement.

HyperStrong and LEAG Clean Power Sign an EPC contract to Develop 1.6 GWh Battery Energy Storage Project in Germany, Advancing Europe’s Energy Transition

COTTBUS and FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — HyperStrong International (Germany) GmbH (HyperStrong), a subsidiary of Beijing HyperStrong Technology Co., LTD. (688411.SH), and LEAG Clean Power GmbH, have signed an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract to deploy a 1.6 GWh utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Germany. Once completed, this project will become one of the largest battery storage facilities in Europe.

The new project GigaBattery Boxberg 400 will form part of LEAG’s GigawattFactory concept – an integrated renewable energy hub combining photovoltaic and wind generation with flexible storage and hydrogen-ready power plants. The cooperation underscores LEAG’s commitment to ensuring reliable, sustainable, and secure energy supply for Germany’s future.

The Boxberg project will adopt HyperStrong’s 4-hour energy storage system, based on its proven HyperBlock III product. HyperBlock III is a mature, field-verified utility-scale storage product designed for stable operation under diverse climatic conditions. The system combines liquid cooling technology, intelligent energy management, and superior safety performance, making it ideal for grid-scale applications in Europe’s variable energy environment. Once operational, the system will provide critical grid services, support renewable integration, and enhance energy security for the region.

“With this project, we continue to accelerate our GigawattFactory strategy and expand the foundation for a carbon-neutral energy system,” said Adi Roesch, CEO of LEAG Group. “Battery energy storage plays a crucial role in balancing renewable fluctuations and ensuring energy remains available when it is needed. Working with a technology-driven partner like HyperStrong enables us to deliver on this vision efficiently and at scale.”

HyperStrong, with the EMEA regional headquarter in Frankfurt, Germany, is a Tier-1 global energy storage solution provider with extensive project experience across utility-scale and commercial & industrial applications. The company has deployed over 45 GWh of energy storage systems worldwide across more than 400 projects – offering high efficiency, safety, and reliability for BESS applications.

For this project, HyperStrong will serve as the EPC contractor, delivering a turnkey, full-station energy storage solution that covers engineering design, equipment supply, system integration, commissioning, grid connection, and long-term operation support.

“We are honored to partner with LEAG Clean Power on this landmark 1.6 GWh project, which demonstrates both companies’ shared commitment to building a resilient, low-carbon energy future,” said Dr. Jianhui Zhang, Chairman and CEO of HyperStrong. “This collaboration represents not only a milestone for our global strategy, but also a significant contribution to Germany’s and Europe’s renewable energy transition. Together, we are unlocking the potential of energy storage to power the next era of clean energy.”

The cooperation between HyperStrong and LEAG Clean Power is part of a broader effort to expand large-scale energy storage capacity in Germany. The German government has reaffirmed the strategic importance of storage systems for achieving a secure, affordable, and sustainable electricity system.

“This partnership brings together complementary strengths – the energy expertise of LEAG Clean Power and HyperStrong’s approach to ensure high technical availability and efficiency,” said Thomas Brandenburg, CEO of LEAG Clean Power GmbH. “The project will set a new milestone for battery storage deployment in Europe and demonstrates the growing importance of global collaboration in achieving energy transition goals.”

Mr. Pingyang Wang, Senior Vice President of HyperStrong International and President of EMEA Region, added, “We are truly honored that LEAG Clean Power has selected HyperStrong as their partner for the Boxberg project. This trust inspires us to bring our full expertise and commitment to deliver a project of the highest quality, while strengthening our long-term presence in Germany and supporting the energy transition across Europe.”

About HyperStrong

HyperStrong is a global leading provider of energy storage system solutions. Founded in 2011, with more than 14 years of research and development, as well as experience garnered through more than 400 energy storage projects and 45 GWh of deployment, HyperStrong offers a portfolio of ESS products and one-stop solutions for the full spectrum of utility-scale, commercial and industrial applications. Having built five smart manufacturing bases, three R&D centers, two testing labs and a global marketing center, HyperStrong empowers clients worldwide to achieve their energy transition and carbon neutrality goals.

For more information about HyperStrong, visit: www.hyperstrong.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

About LEAG Clean Power

LEAG Clean Power GmbH is part of the LEAG Group, Germany’s second-largest electricity producer and one of the largest private employers in eastern Germany. LEAG Clean Power GmbH focuses its business activities on projects in the areas of battery storage and innovative power plants, thereby making a decisive contribution to the development of the LEAG GigawattFactory. With investments in the expansion of renewable energies, storage capacities, the construction of hydrogen-compatible gas-fired power plants and energy generation from biomass, the LEAG Group is consistently driving forward its transformation from a conventional energy supplier to a future-oriented energy transition company.

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