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This popped up on the web today. It is from 09 but I have never seen it. Maybe it could be used as a pivot point in the conversation on this board to move the discussion from the mundane narrow focus of late to the exciting future of KBLB. It is easy to imagine waking up one day and checking my brokerage account to find all my KBLB stock has been replace by stock in BASF with lots of cash sprinkled on top. http://www.basf.com/group/corporate/es_ES/news-and-media-relations/podcasts/chemical-reporter/spider-silk
Thank you Mike. Well said.
I think KBLB is on it's way.
" a ground breaking and commercially unique project" kt
"Our launch of our commercial scale production of Monster Silk™ is a long awaited major milestone for Kraig, as we demonstrate our ability to convert recombinant spider silk, and Monster Silk™ most specifically, from an exciting laboratory technology to a marketable product," said, CEO and founder, Kim K. Thompson. "We believe that rolling out the world's first recombinant spider silk commercial production project will only expand our global development prospects, for Monster Silk™ and other high technology fibers."
http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=59505478
Nice try but that link is a 2 year old pile of horse goo.
It is interesting that transgenic silkworms are included in this study.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652613007701
Toward An Infinitely Reusable, Recyclable, And Renewable Industrial Ecosystem
B Tonn, PD Frymier, D Stiefel, LS Skinner… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2013
... 2) infinitely reusable and recyclable materials. The first class of materials is produced
by trees, crops, and genetically-modified members of the biota (eg, transgenic silk
worms). These renewable resources yield materials that ...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652613007701
On Scottrade and Schwab there is 0=bid, 0=ask and 0 = volume at 10:07am
You expect us to believe that?
Any ideas on what the next 100 bagger might be?? http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/01/motley-fool-co-founder-david-gardner-on-his-first.aspx
It would be nice to see an email in my inbox from KBLB this evening giving share holders a heads up on news Monday morning.
Good to see you on the sunny side of this stock.
It's all good.
It is nice to see KBLB's Big Red mentioned in the same article as DuPont and Honeywell:
Spider silk, for example, is one fiber that continues to be reviewed, as it is an extremely strong material that would no doubt result in lighter weight materials. But how to extract the protein I spider silk in a commercial and cost-effective process has been difficult. (For new information on this technology, see “New ‘Big Red’ spider silks offer superior strength” on this site.)
Also enjoyed seeing this about Warwick. Looking forward to being part of the “mosaic”.
Charles Howland, Warwick’s president, says, “We focus on multi-threat armor: knife spike, pistol and fragments. This approach gives the user comprehensive protection. The multithreat offering has been popular in Europe for years; it is now being adopted in the U.S. We are now supplying the U.S. Army with multithreat for MPs.”
It is a “mosaic” approach, he says, using a variety of materials, including the tightly woven paraaramid, as well as special flexible metal inserts. Holland points out that their largest customer is Howland’s police force where the product is used extensively. Other customers use the material for gloves, for example.
saint,
I do not look at this as a negative. I see it as another creative mechanism Kim is using to get more details to us, the industry and the world.
I like this part:
Kraig also has signed a memorandum of understanding with Spring City, Tenn.-based SSM Industries Inc. — a knitter and weaver of personal protection fabrics — and ultimately expects to move forward with some development initiatives with SSM as well.
Looks like Kim should eventually have two advanced technical textiles developers in an IP race for patents. Gook move KBLB.
Use your spy cam when you are in the pub.
Stock. Just think about it for a second me ole son.
They are looking for the toughest, lightest, most comfortable, material that can best protect them and feel as if they are running with no shoes at all. There is no better material on earth more perfect for this than MS. That is at least until BIG RED is unleashed.
Please apply your reasoning for being able to "understand protective clothing" applications and then you will get it.
"Who is going to step up in the clothing and domestic fiber and fabric sector? Exciting times to say the least! " How true Red.
And then there will be agreements for the performance sports industry applications and an agreement for running shoes. I am hoping to hear names like Adidas or Nike. Check out all the competition for barefoot and minimalist running shoes. Who among them will be the first to proclaim that they are the "sole" distributor the spider silk shoes? http://naturalrunningcenter.com/shoe-reviews/
Has a KBLB PR been picked up by CNN Money before. http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/1060853.htm
If Warwick Mills likes our MS they will love our BR and do back flips for our powerhouse pipeline.
Z06 Man, Thanks for the PM. I agree completely.
Also, looks like the investing strategy of "buying when there is blood in the streets" on the dips and holding long term will prove to be a great way to amass shares for future wealth.
Yepper...
It's his first post under that name but I suspect it is not his first post on this board.
I had a very interesting yet strange dream regarding the KBLB pipeline last night. In this fanciful fictional slumber induced milestone our scientist had used Zinc Fingers to produce a fiber stronger and more practical than standard spider silk with a yellow genetic florescent marker. The product was named SpiderGold and was a scientific and commercial darling. hahaha
Who knows, truth may end up being better than fiction.
The start of said HUGENESS could be this year.
HarperBusiness, 1993 292 pages
Global embrace: corporate challenges in a transnational world
by
Henry Wendt
The emergence of transnational corporations is one of the most far-reaching and controversial transformations under way in the world today. Yet transnationals - often confused with the old-style multinationals they are rapidly displacing - are often barely understood, even by the people they most directly affect. Now comes Global Embrace, a lucid guide to the global village that addresses not only the interplay of markets and competitive strategies but moves beyond narrow business concerns to explore the challenges this new corporate form poses to employees, managers, shareholders, political leaders, and citizens everywhere. Henry Wendt, the chairman of SmithKline Beecham, has spent his entire career in international business. The announcement by Smith-Kline, a distinctly American maker of pharmaceuticals and health care products, and Beecham, a British company in similar lines of business, of their friendly merger on April 12, 1989, represented the largest cross-border merger ever, and created at a stroke the kind of enormous transnational corporation that is changing the face of global competition. Who better, then, than Henry Wendt to describe the transnational world he has helped bring into being? Taking a penetrating look at the nature and impact of transnationals, Wendt describes the hard work that faces companies making the leap to transnational status. He provides valuable models of transnational strategy, organizational behavior, and operating structure, and he shows how to combine them to create superior transnational performance. He examines the perplexing issues of internal governance and external regulation raised by these vastly influential organizations. And he asks - andanswers - the tough questions that trouble ordinary citizens. He also offers a provocative look at the contradictory elements that make up the emerging transnational world. On the one hand, increasingly global standards of quality, performance, and behavior threaten to produce a single, homogeneous world. On the other, the last two decades have seen a vast upsurge in ethnic, cultural, and regional assertiveness around the world, usually at the expense of the nation-state. Paradoxically, argues Wendt, it is the very emergence of the transnational world that encourages local diversity and, for the first time, makes such diversity economically feasible. Bringing together all these strands of business strategy, global economics, and political policy, Wendt envisions a future in which "tribes and transnationals" are held together in a mutual global embrace that will utterly change the world of business - and the business of the world.
Buying shares has been like pulling teeth the last few days but I have been adding.
5s will be considered an amazingly great price as future successes occur.
I'm looking forward to seeing what the new testing equipment says about BIG RED and news on commercial production of MSilk and getting a pleasant surprise regarding new pipeline developments. Long = Lucrative
Right-O Ole Boy.
To bad dadofduck is not able to post here anymore. He lives there.
70mph is no big deal.
The rain is nice...
"a skitsoid trader/investor approach."
Hahaha. saint I have always enjoyed your humor and views.
None of us really KNOW what approach is best.
What's right for some may sound crazy for others.
I do have more of this stock now than I anticipated I would when I first started buying on the dips way back when. Time will tell.
It's like my old pall the real Jimmy Buffett says:
"We've gotta roll with the punches
Learn to play all of our hunches
Makin' the best of whatever comes your way
Forget that blind ambition
And learn to trust your intuition"
Nice buy saint, however, if you want to do the investor's party you may want to consider not selling at .07. Bahamas are great but may I suggest the BVIs. http://foxysbar.com/