NORTHERN TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL CORP

NTIC’s principal executive offices, production facilities, and domestic research and development operations are located in a building owned by NTIC located at 4201 Woodland Road, Circle Pines, Minnesota 55014. NTIC also owns the property immediately adjacent to this property, located at 4203 Woodland Road, which includes a 26,000 square foot industrial building, which is used primarily for warehousing space and light industrial production. In addition to these properties, NTIC owns real estate and a building in Beachwood, Ohio, which it uses for office, manufacturing, laboratory, and warehouse space, and has contract warehousing agreements in California and Indiana to hold and release stock products to customers.

Internationally, NTIC China owns an approximately 21,000 square feet industrial building in the Qingpu District of Shanghai, China, which is used as NTIC China’s corporate headquarters and NTIC’s subsidiaries in Brazil, India and Mexico, all lease office, warehouse, and laboratory space. Both NTIC’s subsidiaries Natur-Tec India and Brazil are in the process of purchasing and renovating new local corporate headquarters to accommodate new manufacturing capacity and anticipated business growth. These projects are expected to be completed in fiscal 2026 or fiscal 2027.

NTIC’s management considers its current properties and the new expansions noted above to be suitable and adequate for its current and foreseeable needs.

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