JANUARY 22, 2020, 6:30 AM

EnWave Corporation (TSX-V:ENW | FSE:E4U) (“EnWave”, or the “Company”), today announced signing a technology license and joint development agreement (the “JDA”) with GEA Lyophil GmbH (“GEA Lyophil”), a global manufacturer and marketer of freeze-dry units for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, to accelerate the potential commercialization of EnWave’s Radiant Energy Vacuum (“REV™”) technology in the pharmaceutical industry.  The Company signed a collaboration and license option agreement with GEA Lyophil in July 2018 and the two parties have been working closely with EnWave’s existing pharmaceutical partner since that time to discuss and strategize the next steps of development towards prospective commercialization.

Under the JDA, EnWave will formally collaborate with GEA Lyophil to scale-up and refine GMP-pharma REV™ machinery, leveraging GEA Lyophil’s deep expertise and intellectual property in GMP-pharma equipment manufacturing. The JDA will allow for the integration of EnWave’s proprietary freezeREV^® pharmaceutical drying technology into GEA Lyophil’s industry-leading equipment design and manufacturing capabilities for the pharmaceutical industry. If successful, GEA Lyophil will leverage its robust pharmaceutical industry network to manufacture, market and sell REV™ machinery for use on a global basis for pharmaceutical applications. Under the terms of the JDA, GEA Lyophil will pay EnWave an undisclosed royalty on the sale of any future GMP-pharma REV™ machinery.

This collaboration between EnWave and GEA Lyophil, including the design and manufacture of next generation scaled-up REV™ machinery that uses the proprietary intellectual property of both parties, aims to allow EnWave’s current pharmaceutical partner to conduct clinical trials for several vaccines. If successful, GEA Lyophil will solicit the purchase of commercial-scale GMP-pharma REV™ equipment from this partner and from other pharmaceutical companies. EnWave would be entitled to a royalty in the form of a percentage of all equipment manufactured and sold as part of commercialization of the technology under the JDA.

The JDA also allows EnWave to focus on its current core competencies in the global food and cannabis industries, reduces the resources necessary to pursue meaningful monetization of its REV™ technology in the pharmaceutical industry and leverages an industry technical and commercial leader in GEA Lyophil.

About GEA Lyophil GmbH

GEA Lyophil GmbH is part of the GEA group of companies. GEA is one of the largest technology suppliers for food and pharmaceutical processing, and a wide range of other industries. The global group specializes in machinery, plants, as well as process technology and components. GEA provides sustainable solutions for sophisticated production processes in diverse end-user markets and offers a comprehensive service portfolio.

For more information about GEA, please visit www.gea.com.

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About EnWave

EnWave Corporation, a Vancouver-based advanced technology company, has developed Radiant Energy Vacuum (“REV™”) – an innovative, proprietary method for the precise dehydration of organic materials. REV™ technology’s commercial viability has been demonstrated and is growing rapidly across several market verticals in the food, legal cannabis and pharmaceutical sectors. EnWave’s strategy is to sign royalty-bearing commercial licenses with industry leaders in multiple verticals for the use of REV™ technology. The company has signed over twenty royalty-bearing licenses to date, opening up eight distinct market sectors for commercialization of new and innovative products. In addition to these licenses, EnWave has formed a Limited Liability Partnership, NutraDried LLP, to develop, manufacture, market and sell all-natural cheese snack products in the United States under the Moon Cheese® brand.

EnWave has introduced REV™ as the new dehydration standard in the food and biological material sectors: faster and cheaper than freeze drying, with better end product quality than air drying or spray drying. EnWave currently has three commercial REV™ platforms:
1.    nutraREV® which is used in the food industry to dry food products quickly and at low-cost, while maintaining high levels of nutrition, taste, texture and colour; and
2.    quantaREV® which is used for continuous, high-volume low-temperature drying.

More information about EnWave is available at www.enwave.net.

EnWave Corporation
Dr. Tim Durance
President & CEO

For further information:
John Budreski, Executive Chairman at +1 (416) 930-0914
E-mail: jbudreski@enwave.net

Brent Charleton, Senior Vice President, Sales and Business Development at +1 (778) 378-9616
E-mail: bcharleton@enwave.net

Deborah Honig, Corporate Development, Adelaide Capital Markets at + 1 (647) 203-8793
E-mail: dhonig@enwave.net

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