Kraig Biocraft Laboratories’ Spider Silk is on Track for Large Scale Production
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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Launches Commercial Production of Monster Silk™
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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories CEO welcomed in Hanoi
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Kraig Biocraft
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Confirms Reports in Vietnamese Media that the Company’s CEO is Meeting with High Ranking Government Officials
WHY KBLB
Kraig Biocraft Labs has crafted a once-in-a-lifetime technology, raising the performance bar with custom recombinant spider silk fibers and polymers. This new technology could displace current industry technologies and standards for advanced technical textiles and various other protective materials.
Kraig Labs was born out the necessity to produce improved fibers and polymers. We are dedicated to producing the best technologies both for our investors and end-users. Our target markets include military, police and DHS related applications; athletic wear, other industrial and consumer applications, clothing and fashion wear; and significant existing silk product markets.
Mother Nature played a hand in making spider silk the super fiber that it is. At Kraig Biocraft Laboratories we plan on improving products, and then lives, by producing it in commercial quantities.
Kraig Labs (KBLB) is taking the necessary steps to ensure success. Recently, the Company has:
• Entered into a collaborative development agreement with Warwick Mills, a leader in the engineering and development of advanced technical textiles and other protective materials.
• Launched Pilot Commercial Production of Monster Silk™.
• Delivered the first small shipment of its Monster Silk™ recombinant spider silk fiber to Warwick Mills.
• Produced the first sample weaves of Monster Silk™ for evaluation.
• Announced the development of our strongest silk to date, Dragon Silk™ and filed two additional patents, in conjunction with the University of Notre Dame, to strengthen our intellectual property protection surrounding its transgenic silkworms and spider silk technologies.
• Announced our first U.S. Army contract with whom we will be developing the next generation in soldier protective materials.
• Opened domestic production facilities in Indiana and Texas
Test weaves are an important components in the commercialization process for our silks. That’s because test weaves are the mother’s milk for the garment industry’s product engineers and other decision makers, so we plan on using these test weaves to close our Monster Silk™ and Dragon Silk™ commercialization loop.
Discover why Monster Silk™and Dragon Silk™ could be 2018’s Hot Commodity
• Demand for products made from lightweight and high strength fibers is at an all-time high and continues to grow.
• Kraig’s advanced fiber production platform method is a huge environmental boost. Spider silk is a protein based fiber, unlike artificial fibers which are most often petroleum based products.
• Spider Silk is highly desirable for its many high performance qualities. The Company plans to market its versions of spider silk (Monster Silk™and Dragon Silk™) in both the technical textiles market and the silk apparel markets. Plans also include incorporating and testing spider silk in anti-ballistic and other technical applications, and then onto medical uses.
• Potential sustained demand as new applications and future generations of custom designed polymers are created.
• Profitable to produce; although the Company hasn’t detailed the pricing strategy, economics was one of the main drivers for choosing the silkworm as our production platform.
– Strong Potential Global Demand, obvious marketing prospects, and cost effective options for spider silk production are seen as drivers of Monster Silk’s success –
Potential for Higher Rewards
As concerns escalate over the environmental issues resulting from chemical processing and the disposal of those toxins, new and intensified interest in biocompatibility is happening on a global basis.
Mother Nature made spider silk among the most powerful fibers and polymers on earth. We plan on making sure that they remain the cleanest commercial alternative to other high strength technical textiles.
Our production model is predicated on reducing waste and toxins, which we believe will ultimately help optimize company growth and sustain product desirability for our clients and investors.
• Our proprietary genetic engineering technology, and an environmentally sustainable model, could impact the mundane silk market and then grow from there.
• Kraig is on target to deliver the world’s 1st commercially feasible mass produced recombinant spider silk. Unique in this space with the first peer-reviewed scientific publication describing the creation of transgenic silkworms that spin a recombinant spider silk.
• We work with the very best minds in molecular biology.
• As a biotechnology company, upcoming developments could lead to impressive valuations.
• The Company is just starting to enter the Commercial Production Phase.
• KBLB has made amazing strides and has delivered incredible value.
The Company’s CEO is employing a comprehensive commercialization approach, which, considering the small size and limited corporate budget, has yielded impressive results. This strategy is designed to maximize shareholder equity.
THE ADVANTAGES OF SPIDER SILK
In addition to spider silk’s potential anti-ballistic qualities, spider silk’s amazing properties could make it the basis of many market disrupting technologies in industrial, military and consumer applications, requiring superior strength, toughness and flexibility.
The Advantages of Spider Silk
• Unequalled combination of elasticity and tensile strength represents technological paradigm shift.
• Genetically engineered spider silk fibers have uses in various applications and markets
• Biodegradable and biocompatible.
• Spider silk production could greatly reduce many of the toxins and pollutants used in conventional petroleum based fiber and polymer production process.
High performance technical fibers are currently used in a wide variety of military, industrial, and consumer applications requiring superior strength, toughness and flexibility.
Spider Silk Strength: Stronger Than Steel
Kraig envisions genetically engineered spider silk, with its superior mechanical characteristics, will surpass the current generation of high-performance fiber. We believe that spider silk is in some ways so superior to the materials currently available in the marketplace, that an expansion of demand and market opportunities will follow spider silk’s commercial introduction. For example, the ability of natural spider silk to absorb in excess of 100,000 joules of kinetic energy makes it a potentially ideal material for structural blast protection. The table below illustrates spider silk’s incredible toughness and strength to weight ratios.
Comparison of the Properties of Natural Spider Silk, Kevlar® and Steel
| Material Toughness¹ | Tensile Strength² | Weight³ | ||||
| Dragline spider silk | 120,000-160,000 | 1,100-2,900 | 1.18-1.36 | |||
| Kevlar® | 30,000-50,000 | 2,600-4,100 | 1.44 | |||
| Steel | 2,000-6,000 | 300-2,000 | 7.84 |
The Market for Spider Silk
Spider silk has the potential to revolutionize the multi-billion dollar silk industry. The market for raw silk alone is in excess of $5 billion per year. Traditional silk is primarily used to create high quality clothing, however, it does not have many industrial uses. In contrast, the strength and performance that spider silk possesses allows it to be used in multiple industries for various uses other than just clothing. In the medical industry, spider silk could be used as extremely thin sutures for eye or nerve surgery. Spider silk also has the potential to replace Kevlar in body armor. Just one of these markets, technical textile, which prioritize material performance generates in excess of $120 billion in annually sales. With Kraig Labs recombinant spider silk technology we have the ability to access this wide range of potential markets.
SPIDER SILK, and RELATED TOPICS, NEWS and VIDEO LINKS
By clicking on the links below, you will be leaving Kraig’s website. Please note that KBLB does not control and is not responsible for the content on such sites.
NBC- Real- Life “Spider-Man” Suits On the Way?
Popular Mechanics- 6 Spider-Silk Superpowers
TED- Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk
Deutsche Welle- Dutch artist creates ‘bulletproof’ skin with spider silk
Science Daily- Spider silk coated with carbon nanotubes has multiple surprising uses
The Telegraph- Spider twist leads to hybrid silk yarn
BBC- Tangled webs: Why scientists want to recreate spider silk
Phys.org- Tough, light and strong: Lessons from nature could lead to the creation of new materials
Phys.org- Spider silk conducts heat as well as metals, study finds
Wired- 1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth
FloridaNature.org- Fiber Engineers, Meet Thy Master
Bill’s Channel- WORLD’S STRONGEST SPIDER WEB
The Hindu- Flexible wires from spider silk conduct electricity
NOVA- Smart Material: Spider Silk
University of Notre Dame – Scientists Create Transgenic Silkworms Capable of Producing Spider Silk
Illumin- Biomimetics: Engineering Spider Silk
Science Daily- Genetically engineered spider silk for gene therapy
US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health- Silk as a Biomaterial
TED- FiorenzoOmenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
Lab News- Silk Spinning The Genetically Modified Way
Techtextil- North America Returns to Pre-Recession Levels
Gizmodo- A Brief History of Bulletproof
BBC- DuPont awarded $920m over stolen trade secrets
NBC Bay Area – Real-Life “Spider-Man” Suits On the Way?
Seeker – Genetically Engineered Silkworms Spin Like Spiders
Smart Planet – Silkworms on a diet make fluorescent silk, could green the coloring process
Genome News Network – Building a better silkworm with piggyBac
Materials Today – Hybrid silkworms spin stronger spider silk
Composites Manufacturing – The Rise of Bio Composites
Asia Bio Tech – Silkworms Give Spider Silk New Spin
TOXINS INFO LINKS
National Geographic – Great Pacific Garbage PatchBad Plastics- A commonsense guide to toxic plastics in your home, and how to avoid them.
OSHA- Hazardous and Toxic Substances
Body Ecology – Top 6 fabrics you should avoid
BIODEGRADABLE and BIOCOMPATIBLE INFO LINKS
World Wide Fund for Nature – Biodegradability
Tree Hugger – Is silk biodegradable?
Hearts – Surprisingly Compostable Textiles
¹Measured by the energy required to break a continuous filament, expressed in joules per kilogram (J/kg). A .357 caliber bullet has approximately 925 joules of kinetic energy at impact.
²Tensile strength refers to the greatest longitudinal stress the spider silk can bear, measured by force over area in units of newtons per square meter. The measurement here is in millions of pascals.
³In grams per cubic centimeter of material.
INDUSTRY ARTICLES/PUBLICATIONS
Collaborations with well-respected institutions, such as the University of Notre Dame, has accelerated and enabled a number of exciting breakthroughs in the laboratory. We are very thankful for the media coverage we receive, which helps us spread the word about recombinant spider silk, along with the Publication of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) peer-reviewed journal, which credibly confirms our proof-of-concept.
Highly Regarded Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Publishes Kraig Biocraft Laboratories’ Scientific Breakthrough “Silkworms Transformed with Chimeric Silkworm/Spider Silk Genes Spin Composite Silk Fibers with Improved Mechanical Properties”.
Recombinant spider silk protein results in a strong fiber
KBLB NEWS and VIDEO LINKS
Union Leader-Genetically modified silkworms produce miracle fiber for New Ipswich firm
Textile World- Kraig Biocraft, Warwick Mills To Codevelop Spider-silk Based Textiles
Textile World-Kraig Biocraft Develops Big Red Spider Silk
Textile World-Quality Fabric of the Month
Voice of Vietnam- KraigBiocraft Laboratories CEO welcomed in Hanoi
National Geographic- Hybrid Silkworms Spin Spider Silk—A First
BBC- GM silk worms make Spider-Man web closer to reality
The Telegraph- Scientists make silkworms ‘spin spider webs’
The Independent- Well it worked for Peter Parker Genetic Scientists unleash Power of the Spider Web
University of Notre Dame- Hybrid silkworms spin stronger spider silk
Science Daily- Scientists genetically engineer silkworms to produce artificial spider silk
Notre Dame Press Conference: Silkworms Produce Artificial Spider Silk
Notre Dame Research: Transgenic Silkworms Spin Artificial Spider Silk
MetaCafe- KraigBiocraft (KBLB), Notre Dame Spider Silk Worm Press Release
Phys.org- Scientists genetically engineer silkworms to produce artificial spider silk (w/ Video)
Innovation in Textiles- KraigBiocraft Laboratories in spider silk breakthrough
MIT Technology Review-Transgenic Worms Make Tough Fibers
QMed- For Medical Applications, Two Silks Are Better than One
Wired- Mutant Worms Produce Piles of Spider Silk
The Register- New GM worms mean large scale spider-silk production
Science Business- Biotech Company, Universities Produce Artificial Spider Silk
UPI- Modified silkworms spin spider silk
One India News- Genetically engineered silkworms to produce artificial spider silk
Genome News Network- Building a better silkworm with piggyback
NBC- Researchers: Silkworms make artificial spider silk
Red Orbit- Genetically Engineered Silkworms Produce Artificial Spider Silk
Discover Magazine- Genetically engineered silkworms with spider genes spin super-strong silk
Fibre2Fashion- KraigBiocraft creates composite spider silk fibre
The Washington Times – Army Tests Genetically Engineered Spider Silk
Defense One – The Army is Testing Genetically Engineered Spider Silk for Body Armor
Gizmodo – The Army wants to make Body Armor Out of Genetically Engineered Spider Silk
Popular Mechanics – The Army is Testing Body Armor made from Genetically Engineered Spider Silk
Huffington Post – Soldiers Could Be Wearing Armor Made from Genetically Engineered Spider Silk
Vocativ – Body Armor Made from Spider-Silkworm Hybrid
Synbiobeta – Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Expands Domestic Spider silk Production Capacity
OTCMarkets – Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Awarded Investment Certificate in Vietnam
DailyDomer – Real Life Spider Suit?
Space Mart – Hybrid Silkworms Spin Stronger Spider Silk
Gillette News Record – UW Prof Weaves ‘Monster Silk’ With Spider DNA
Before its News – Transgenic Silkworms Spin Super Spider Silk, Stronger Than Steel And Kevlar
South Bend Tribune – Tough new fiber a breakthrough
By clicking on the links above, you will be leaving Kraig’s website. Please note that KBLB does not control and is not responsible for the content on such sites.
