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KBLB: World Leaders in Spider Silk Technology and Unforced Errors...
There's more than one reason there's no institutional confidence yet. Mass production is obviously critical, but the repeated inability to edit a WordPress document in a timely manner is also telling. Eau du small potatoes.
Kim
Jon
With video
Now this is news we can all get behind
Pretty difficult, actually. There'd be WAY too much evidence that they were derived from one another then any simple edits could mask. It would be easier to simply make a new worm.
It's not something I'm worried about, but it's not fair then to say that the product cannot be copied. It absolutely can be, and very easily. Would it be easy to prove that they were KBLB-derived worms? 100%, super easy. A high schooler could run that test. This is why I'm not worried about some super-secret spy agency stealing our DNA OR our worms and beating us to market with our own supply.
That's a stupid thing to be worried about. You know who IS worried about that? 999 Kim, who is worried that somewhere in the world foreigners have KBLB websites pulled up on their computers. He's the paranoid one in this situation, not me
A year ago today....
Army looks to spiders to save soldiers' lives
20M shares traded, closed at $0.095.
1 Year later...back to anemia. Say what you will about Kim's ability to pull this off in the long term, but it's undeniable that the man doesn't know how to keep a fire lit.
Almost a year to the date...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., -July 18, 2016- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) (“Company”), the leading developer of spider silk based fibers, announced today that the Company has signed an office lease in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The opening of the Company’s first overseas office is in keeping with its plans to expand silk production. The establishment of this office is seen by the Company as an essential step in its efforts to obtain final approval from Vietnamese authorities for its planned hybrid silkworm research and pilot production operations
He pwomised.
Wow. I may have to stand corrected on that one.
https://youtu.be/4zLfCnGVeL4" >https://youtu.be/4zLfCnGVeL4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" >Kim's favorite song
Ben met with these spiders and told me personally that they were very excited to work with KBLB. We're currently in talks with the lead spider with regards to financing. Kim is also looking to partner with a fly farm to produce the necessary food, but as we ALL know, the fly wrangling business is muddled in bureacracy so negotiations are ongoing.
KBLB could craft glasses for the potatos' eyes out of super strong silk, strong enough to last in the soil.
I should know, I know someone in the spud game. Whispers have started.
Besides maybe our future partners
Never said it was 100% Kims fault, except that KBLB chose a vendor unable to make such an oberservation on their own. Whether KBLB failed to notify or whether the reeler was unable to know the difference, it's KBLB's fault one way or another.
Again, not a show stopping error but many here are trying to imply it's the nature of doing "cutting edge research". That strikes me as an easy out, that's all.
KBLB will move on, but this was an unforced, avoidable delay, not an inevitable one. My only point. And only presented as a counter to chronic apologists.
Cocoon size isn't a property of cocoons? Oh, alright then. Everybody did a perfect job and nobody needed to communicate better.
Neither you nor I are entomologists but others on this board have far greater understanding of silk making and have clearly stated that customization of processing would be paramount. This is my point, and it's really indisputable. Someone dropped the ball, this was NOT inevitable. It's the sign of step-skipping and assumptions. You know what they say about those that assume.
We didn't send the cocoons to a group that was properly informed or willing to do the obvious upfront work, and it caused a delay. Of course you can say "Well we learned and moved on", but that's completely banal. There's no alternative to learning and moving on, other than quitting. Obviously this isn't an unfixable problem, so it's the intellectual equivalent to saying "I choked on food once, but I learned how to not talk and eat so I'm breathing better than ever".
The issue of KBLB silk (be it MS or DS) having different kinetic and material properties than traditional silk has been long known to the company and to those on this board for YEARS.
If the reeler that we selected wasn't aware that our silk required fine-tuning or adjustments to industry standards, the blame for that falls first to Kim/Jon for not communicating that (as it was 100% known) and then to the reeler themselves, who if they were capable enough and had a fundamental understanding (versus a bulk processing mentality) should have been able to see that the raw materials were sufficiently different than what they were used to working with.
Experts have expertise, and not everyone that works on commercial-scale materials is an expert. Kim should have found an expert and not relied on someone that thinks they can just run this through the old-school setup.
That's just a fact. Maybe it's an easy fix, and maybe this delay will wake Kim up to the fact, but it's inexcusable given that THEY THEMSELVES MODIFIED THE SILK TO BE STRONGER/MORE ELASTIC/ETC. If you don't know what your fibers need, then you shouldn't be in the fiber game without help from true experts.
We ALREADY have an Army agreement. It's in their own best interest to put us in contact with such a supplier.
In a way it's classic chicken and egg:
1) We need an all-star reeler with very high expertise and ingenuity
2) Our future commercial clients likely have access to such facilities
3) We can't get help from the commercial clients without a contract
4) We can't get a contract without a reeler.
That said, wouldn't the Army have pull in this area? DoD textile partners?
If that's the case it's certainly a moot point. I suppose I find it hard to believe, but not impossible, that there isn't an academic/technical lab with a small-scale set up in the states. Maybe not, I've never looked. Either way, this R+D should be done with a VERY high-end manufacturer. Not someone that deals with homogenous commercial material, but rather, a group with an advanced technical knowledge about the whole process and the time and interest to make the necessary customizations.
ALL first run tests should be run in the US, IMHO, independent of costs. Find the best, small batch reeler, figure out the parameters, then farm the batch jobs out to a cheaper flexible reeler.
The optimization turn around time should be much faster than we're seeing. We shouldn't have international shipping times and long queues holding up what is essentially R+D. Figure it out here with master workers and then send over instructions. Don't send a whole project overseas when you don't have any idea what you want them to do.
My opinion. That's how I do my research. Pricey, small batch proof of concept and optimization, then batch processing which is cheaper.
Possible, but all indications from a public relations standpoint (pictures, pomp and circumstance) indicate that the central government was supportive of the new business initiatives...
Regardless, it would be very reassuring to hear that from someone with clout in the central government.
Thanks, yes this is the post (or more accurately, a follow-up), but I had no difficulties finding it. What I'm wondering is why this is the last we've heard of it. It's been around 1 month to the day since that document's creation, and since then, silence again.
Can anyone with a better, fact-based opinion on the matter weigh in to explain what's happening with the postings from a few weeks back which appear to show the beginning steps formation of the VN Sub, including official names and partners? Were those forms still awaiting signatures? They just seemed to be mostly completed documents so it's strange to me that we haven't heard anything about it by way of an official communication (either PR or financial disclosure).
I readily admit that international business law is not my strong-suit, so I'm just looking for some informed insight.
I'm currently transitioning between jobs and with a new addition to our family, I'm having to sell small lots of shares to provide bridge funds between jobs. While I'm in the black and shouldn't complain, that we're lilting around 5-7 cents still is really a bummer because I feel strongly that KBLB is on the precipice of breaking through to a new stage in its growth, but it just feels like that same old KBLB pace and patterning. Today's PR was a nice confirmation of something discussed in the newsletter, but as others here have stated, nothing happens in the big picture before VN approval. And given the glimpses that we have seen about the potential money, subsidies, and apparent autonomy that the VN government will be bestowing upon the VN sub, it really can't come soon enough for my family.
Your analogies are always entertaining. Like a long, meandering road trip. Not sure where they're going, and there are a few wrong turns along the way. But you shoot for Yosemite and wind up in White Sands, so at least you made it to a national park.
Never change.
I'd PR that Monday morning. I don't subscribe to Friday = Always bad news, but Monday AM reaches more people looking to enter.
I'm honeatly so proud! Using FB? That's a major changet in communication. Now just do it once per week!
A) Be careful not to conflate the issues of different posters on this board. For instance, I don't complain about quiet, I complain about the poor communication of what IS said. There's a huge difference.
B)