Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[ZincFinger]

Some thoughts and speculations on Monster Silk:

Extraction of the maximum revenues/profits from most markets involves providing a range of products of varying qualities at varying prices. (That's why there are so many different models of TV sets, computers, cellphones, etc.)

The idea is a company with less demanding applications of, for example, high tech textiles can get a lower quality lower priced fiber that is adequate to meet its needs at a price that its use would support when a higher quality higher priced textile might make its products too costly for its markets.

Monster silk is twice as strong as silkworm silk and 80% as strong as spider silk. IMHO it's quite possible that, after detailed market analysis, Kim might have decided that Monster Silk is a bit of overkill for the silk garments and accessories market and that a lower range silk, say 60% as strong as spider and 150% of the strength of silkworm silk would be more suitable for the silk garments and accessories market and allow the Monster Silk to get a much better price for some of the less demanding applications of the high tech fibers market. (That may even be what he has in mind with the company currently testing Monster Silk as reinforcement in security and structural integrity products.)

For that reason, I would not be surprised if ONE of the genetic modifications currently being done (in addition to modifying a Monster Silk or other worm to get pure spider silk) was to modify one of the other 20 lines of previously genetically modified worms to get a silk more suitable to the silk garments and accessories market. (I think he would ONLY do that if they were able to do more than one different GM in a round.

(The basic idea is that if you sell a silk to the silk garments and accessories market that is so good that it is suitable for the low range of the high tech fibers market, then producers will just buy the lower price silk and use that.)

THIS IS ALL JUST SPECULATION! I have no information not readily available to anyone here that would indicate whether it is or is not the way KBLB plans on doing it!