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"The pupa of a silk strand close to Dragon Silk with red glowing eyes, a genetic feature put in to identify the transgenic animals"
The above is the caption that was under the picture that was in the article I posted earlier (Coding genes for Dragon Silk). I couldn't post the picture, I'm using a mobile device.
Well, we've gone from ZERO news to great sounding news but it's evident that the world is deaf to KBLB.
News from Neverland isn't impressing anyone anymore. The market's saying "SHOW ME THE MONEY".
Until this horse wins a race, nobody will care but us chickens.
Spider silk on cusp of storming textiles market
Spider silk is definitely the new fibre to watch out for. It has been known for a while that spiders produce some of the most fascinating functional fibre: stronger than steel per unit wight, very lightweight, elastic (reportedly stretching up to 20 times its size), soft, water resistant –
However, news is suddenly erupting about companies on the brink of developing a means of commercialising this fibre or a close synthetic match, and beginning to explore its vast potential in textiles and apparel.
So far, spider silk has been unattainable on a large enough scale, due to the biology of the animals themselves. They produce the substance, but they are very difficult to rear and breed in a lab setting, as males usually die during the breeding process.
However, companies like AMSilk, Bolt Threads and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories have all recognised the enormous potential this fibre will have if it becomes commercially viable and are working tirelessly towards finding a method for its large-scale production.
The properties of spider and spider inspired silk could be put to good use in technical textiles, apparel, the fashion industry and potentially more. Spider silk producers believe that textiles produced with this fibre will offer better durability, lightness and flexibility than any synthetics currently on the market.
While Kraig is aiming to use genetically modified silkworms to produce spider silk as a natural fibre based on the same production process that has been proven effective for silk, Bolt Threads is working on a way to replicate the proteins that comprise spider silk and engineer a synthetic version which the company believes could be adapted to offer a number of different properties.
AMSilk is another company which has been developing a programme to manufacture a man-made fibre containing 100% spider silk, which it says would be of huge benefit to the technical textiles and medical textiles fields.
Other means of obtaining the protein which makes spider silk the incredible substance it is, include genetically modifying goats to produce it in their milk, which can then be extracted and spun into fibres. This was carried out in the US by Nexia Biotechnologies, and later by the Randy Lewis lab of the University of Wyoming and Utah State University. While they were successful in producing the substance without the use of spiders themselves, inability to produce in mass quantities has stunted the progression of the fibre onto the market. As well as transgenic goats, transgenic E. coli have also been developed to produce spider silk proteins.
This material is on the cusp of exploding into the textiles industry and it seems to have the potential to take the technical textiles market by storm. Recent news of Kraig Labs signing a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam, which outlines a framework for the creation and rearing of transgenic silkworms, means we are another step closer to mass-attaining this valuable substance.
http://www.wtin.com/article/2015/june/15615/spider-silk-on-cusp-of-storming-textiles-market/
Coding genes for Dragon Silk
News recently hit the presses highlighting Kraig Biocraft Laboratories’ memorandum of understanding with Vietnam, which represents the foundations of the two collaborating to use transgenic silk worms to finally mass-produce in a cost-effective way spider silk – a remarkable fibre with numerous performance qualities.
Like many other companies, Kraig Labs is reliant on genetic engineering for its products, but while other manufacturers have chosen different hosts for their work, such as bacteria and goats, this company is betting on the silk worm for an efficient process, calling it ‘nature’s silk factory’.
According to the company, genetic engineering offers a great deal of potential for the manufacturing this fibre, allowing for the manipulation of its characteristics in order to enhance certain functions for different end products and applications.
While cracking the mass production of spider silk itself would be a big feat for the industry, Kraig Labs is already setting itself up for the next big steps – refining and developing the product. According to COO Jon Rice, the demand for all different functionalities and possibilities is evident in the synthetics industry, so Kraig Labs is already working to add more products to its portfolio.
The developer of advanced spider silk based fibres, has created its strongest and most flexible recombinant spider silk technology yet, Dragon Silk.
Dragon Silk represents a leap in the company’s recombinant spider silk technology, combining both the elasticity and strength elements of native spider silk. A small number of samples of the new fibre have demonstrated tensile strength as high as 1.79 gigapascals, exceeding widely reported spider silk strength (by as much as 37%, depending on source literature), Kraig Labs said. Several samples of Dragon Silk have also demonstrated elasticity above 38%, exceeding native dragline spider silk, the company added.
This new material has shown it can be more flexible than Monster Silk and stronger than Big Red, the company’s flagship recombinant spider silk products. Kraig Labs is now working to standardise the performance level across the entire Dragon Silk genetic line.
Company founder and CEO Kim Thompson said: “We have never believed that native spider silk is the limit of strength and flexibility performance. A few superstar individuals, within the genetically engineered colony we call Dragon Silk, have demonstrated extremely high level of performance in the laboratory. We are now working to obtain that standard throughout the Dragon Silk line.
“Even as we undertake that work, our research team is working in parallel to create even more powerful transgenics. Dragon Silk represents yet another material science breakthrough and shifts the standard of performance expectation for spider silk technologies,” he added.
http://www.wtin.com/article/2015/june/29615/coding-genes-for-dragon-silk/?channelId=1120
Jon Rice interview. May have been posted. From German website.
https://fashionunited.de/nachrichten/mode/monsterseide-dank-gentechnik-ist-seide-bald-fester-als-stahl/2015063018389
Translation :
INTERVIEW It sounds like a science fiction story: The American biotech firm Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has implanted in silkworms to make silk spider genes even more tear-resistant. Monster Silk Americans call fittingly their new invention. The thread of the spider is five times stronger than steel - with the new silk so completely different fabrics could be produced, as we know so far. To date, limited the production of genetically modified silk in the lab, now is the spider silk in Vietnam go into production. For this purpose just a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed with the Vietnamese government, which sets the conditions for the breeding of genetically modified silkworms and the production of silk. Jon Rice, COO of Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, explains what the spider silk has precisely located.
What exactly is the difference between your silk and the traditional silk, which is obtained from silkworms?
We have managed to accurately identify the help of genetic engineering, the spider silk proteins of which make up the thread of the spider so enormous tensile strength. These genes we have implanted in our transgenic silkworms. Resulting from our silk has not reached a flexibility and strength, the conventional silk. Traditional silk is only half as flexible as our spider silk and only about a quarter to half as much. By integrating these spider silk proteins in our transgenic silkworms we have gained a reliable source of high-performance natural fibers that are biodegradable and biocompatible.
Win the silk thread of caterpillars or spiders? How exactly does it work?
Our silk we gain from silkworms. These transgenic caterpillars produce no "normal" silk thread, but a silk thread with the combined characteristics of a spider's thread. However, the process of extraction of the thread is again the same way as with conventional silkworms: the cocoon is unwound and spun the thread thereby obtained into yarns. In other words, we can use the existing know-how from silkworm breeding and silk production continues, and we will get a new, enormously strong silk fiber with the traditional, low-cost production methods.
There are also attempts to process the silk spider directly. Why do not you do that?
Most other techniques to generate spider silk are very expensive. In our method, the silkworms do all the work.
What actual benefit does the new Silk?
The first and most important difference between our silk and the traditional is actually the ultimate tensile strength. Our silk is more flexible and two to four times as hard as any other silk on the market. The textile industry can produce it especially comfortable and durable fabrics. Spider silk is five times stronger than steel and also stronger than Kevlar, which indeed now working and outdoor clothing is often used in the field. In addition, our Silk is extremely lightweight. But our silk allows far more areas of application than traditional textile production, such as composites and medical implants.
When will the first products from your spider silk?
We have already begun to produce on more experimental level products. The first products were knitted gloves for example, to find out how the material behaves during the knitting process. This work will be continued and we hope that we can imagine a meaningful series of woven fabrics soon.
I'd be curious to hear Ben's response to that. Although I assume Ben is equally as frustrated with the lack of substance.
We might not be so frustrated on being explicitly told that metric tons had been shipped if had Kim not led us to expect that it will be made public when it happens. After all, if it's a secret, why did he ever make the "mid-year 2014" comment.
Also, someone posted last year that Ben said Kim will let us know as soon as it happens. He never did.
Add 9 months of silence to that and you've got pissed off investors who now view Kim through different eyes. We see him as a guy who might not have the highest integrity.
I'm not holding out much hope that the quarterly newsletter will contain much meat, but I'll certainly welcome it. And I certainly hope Kim can restore confidence in the shareholders. Right now it's rock bottom.
Come on now Rayo. Communication is limited, not muted.
We can only hope. Maybe we can message the guy that got him hooked up with Warwick.
There was speculation that Rice would fix the communication deficiencies of the great and powerful Kim. But there's been no change since the Rice man cometh.
I lost patience when "mid-year" 2014 came and went with no announcement of metric tons being shipped-or received- or warehoused.
I've just been silent because there's been nothing to talk about. No news. He hired a guy. Apparently Rice is a "yes man"- if this guy were worth his salt, he'd tell Kim , "hello! McFly! The shareholders need a bone thrown their way. We wouldn't have to give away so many shares if the share price were higher..."
Every shareholder should be furious at the way Kim ignores us and refuses to account for himself. Not to mention the way he lets his currency (shares) dwindle lower and lower just because he refuses to open his mouth and give an account of what he's done with our money.
If Kim gave two ___ about the shareholders, he'd have been chomping at the bit to speak to us the friggin second the S1a was effective.
Like I said before, even if there's great news on the horizon, he allows his cash value to dwindle for no apparent reason.
Where would you find a KBLB chicken?
Good question. Certainly the party line has been that we will hear loads of news the second Kim is able to speak.
I can't. There's no excuse for the silence today. None. I don't give a rat's ____ how busy they are. The share price is money. PERIOD
It's completely disrespectful to his shareholders (and especially his loyal minions) who have defended his silence all these months.
Hope you're wrong. The silence from KBLB today makes me think I'd better get my Little Orphan Annie Secret Society decoder ring ready though.
If we get no more than "Our Oompa Loompas have succeeded in doubling an undisclosed amount of MS to yet another undisclosed amount which may or may not be the amount we'd sort of but not explicitly predicted by mid year 2015 (oops - I mean 2014)"...
If we get that ambiguity yet again, we'll head down to the twos.
I had expected that a PR was locked and loaded and ready to be released the second the gag was removed from Kim's mouth.
I guess not. I'm no CEO but if I were, and my share price was in the gutter and the entire world has been ignoring my company, I'd have had one ready for the "send" button for several months now. (Any minor "tweaking" that might be necessary would have been well thought out by now.)
Unless of course that making my loyal shareholders happy wasn't a priority. In that case I might wait to see what kind of spin the rumor mill might put on my continued silence to see if something sounds good.
Or he's in no hurry since there really aren't any shareholders that he cares to please. A pathetic >$25k traded per day on my company might not make me get off my ass to have a PR at the ready.
Even if he PRs a whopper today, the fact that he was unprepared to address his shareholders speaks volumes.
I'd have been happy with a quick email...
"S-1a approved- news very soon". Is that too much to ask?
For what it's worth, GMO crops were stalled in Vietnam for about a year while the "legal framework" was legally framed. Maybe "animals and creatures" will take about the same. Or not.
Oct 2013
http://news.agropages.com/News/NewsDetail---10748.htm
Aug 2014
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/its-official-vietnam-licenses-genetically-modified-organisms-30220.html
I'd be curious how much forced reeling would add to production costs. Would probably be worth any cost if it produced native dragline silk and cured any variability issues.
The team’s report in the journal Biomacromolecules this week concludes that, in comparison to unparalysed silkworms, paralysis allows longer and more consistent silks to be collected by eliminating the ability of the silkworm to break and alter its silk fibre.
http://www.innovationtoronto.com/2013/09/paralysis-promises-smart-silk-technology/
Very interesting.
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has achieved recent success with commercially producing genetically engineered spider silk using transgenic silkworms. Called “Monster Silk,” the super-strong, fine silk is produced from silkworms far larger than their original silk worm cousins. The first fabrics made with Monster Silk were knitted at Warwick Mills.
- See more at: http://textilesupdate.com/fiber-innovation-the-magic-of-spider-silk#sthash.Zj7EihFi.dpuf
9 JAN 2015
I missed this if someone already posted it.
Article from Vietnam. Same photo used in last article I posted but there is more info here. At least this blogger is talking about a missed opportunity for Vietnam. Article in Vietnamese. I posted the Google translate version.
http://khangnguyen100888.blogspot.com/2015/01/vi-sao-cam-nuoi-tam-lai-nhen.html
Spider silk durable than silk, can make bulletproof vests, car manufacturing ... so transgenic silkworms - spider silk Hybrid is expected to create surpassed this, but Vietnam Namchua allowed by a some reason ...
On 26/12, the Department of Agriculture - Rural Development (MARD), Lam Dong said: MARD both official comments on the proposal of Lam Dong province in Official Letter No. 53 / UBND-NN dated 11.17.2014 addressed to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Lam Dong suggest that allows cooperation with a foreign corporation conducting transgenic silkworm rearing - hybrid spider silk. According to Document No. 10 246 / BNN-Sun of MARD, the Lam Dong temporarily not project hybrid silkworms with spider reason we are not qualified to manage livestock breeds strange nature of GMO "hybrid spider silk "is.
Results of a new study
According to the written request of Lam Dong Province, sericulture hybrid spider is a completely new field of agricultural production in Vietnam, and of course for Lam Dong province - one of the key local craft sericulture. According to this document, recently, Kraig Biocraft Laboratores Group (KBL) raised the issue of cooperation with Lam Dong testing hybrid model sericulture and silk spider for Lam Dong has been agreed in the policy . However, with the written reply of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, this program can be stopped.
Official of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said: "The management of genetically modified animals and genetically modified organisms are new areas of the world in general and Vietnam in particular. For transgenic animals, very few policies in the world to apply for the assay to assess the impact on the environment and biodiversity, largely because of the difficulty of risk management. Currently in Vietnam there is no legal framework and incompetent management of this new field. "Thus, in a written reply suggested Lam Dong province, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked Lam Dong temporarily not deploy the KBL Group in collaboration with project implementation transgenic silkworm rearing until Vietnam has legal framework in this field.
Notably, the written reply of Lam Dong Province, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development stated reason is because Vietnam has no legal framework on this new field should be temporary and not yet implemented denied silkworm breeding hybrid spider with its benefits.
According to the literature of Lam Dong DARD, not only for silkworm silk new "do" is that a number of other animals, including spiders, also silk. However, to date, most of the countries in the world only take animals almost solely to the production of silkworm silk, but no other animal can "compete" with silk. However, recent research by scientists around the world to see, as well as animal spider silk and silkworm silk as a material is very special: There are mechanical strength superior to silk, used in military technology (as bulletproof vests), in car manufacturing technology ...
However, according to research by scientists in the world, although there are some outstanding advantages compared with gossamer silk but has not been selected in our daily lives by these restrictions: The length of spider silk is usually too short (only about 20 - 30 cm compared with an average of silk yarn 1,000m); to get spider silk fibers, need a "technology" separate special silk and almost have to do it manually; and finally, bringing Spider silk is extremely difficult to obtain, totally unlike the silkworm breeding, rearing that is not a "herd" as silk, and silk spiders do best is eating spiders increasingly difficult to keep up.
The careful necessary?
Based on animal studies and releasing two meters, recently, a number of scientists from the University of Wyoming (USA) conducted a study and succeeded: Transplanting a series of spider genes into silkworms and the spider silk genes have been transplanted into a silk elastic and durable silk but almost equal in length to the length of silk.
In other words, the normal worm, scientists can make it genetically modified so that it can produce silk protein containing synthetic spider silk and silk as it has superior properties compared to conventional silk. With these results, the scientists set expectations in the future, the world is fully capable of producing an entirely new kind of silk worm with genetically modified to produce large quantities of fabrics super durable, even producing the armor ...
According to scientists, the silk from silkworms transgenic also be applied in the medical field (wound dressings, artificial tissues frame, artificial tendons, ligaments, surgery ...) and in many other areas. Based on the findings of scientists from the University of Wyoming (USA), KBL Group has chosen to Vietnam and Lam Dong to project future spider and silkworm rearing. The reason is because KBL selected local Lam Dong is considered the "capital" of the country mulberry, local farmers have a lot of experience sericulture, while this is going local first in the country to develop high-tech agriculture.
However, speaking as a leader of Lam Dong DARD prior written proposal temporarily not project between Lam Dong with KBL Group silkworm breeding hybrid spider that: "There is most likely that this is a breakthrough new in agriculture, especially in the fields of sericulture, but the law is the law; Vietnam because no legal framework in this new field should force us to comply, that is temporarily not able to implement the project. "
Prior to this decision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, opinion also raises questions: Is such that we have missed an opportunity in agricultural development, namely development of sericulture? However, it has been suggested that prudence of such MARD is required by the genetic modification are still two sets of conflicting opinions!
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"Mr. Lai Hung, the Director of the Plant Protection Department, Lam Dong, said the reason KBL Group Lam Dong selected partner spider and silkworm rearing trials because this is the "capital" sericulture industry VN."
It's not entirely clear if Hung from Dong is going to be a problem
too. Could just be stating the obvious. Guessing that Dung and Hung from Dong are in cahoots.
I'm not confident that Dung from Dong knows what he's talking about. If he's got "24 years experience" with spider/silkworm hybrids. That's only possible if he's referring to the previous attempt from Japan where that was certainly true.
It's Dung, not Dong. Sometimes his friends call him "the big Dung" but he gets pissed when they call him "Dong".
At least that's what sources inside Vietnam say.
On 12/30, leaders of Lam Dong DARD said MARD not agree to Lam Dong project transgenic silkworm breeding - hybrid spider silk.
Traditional silk weaving
Silk weaving tradition - Photo: Forest Park
Previously, May 11.2014, Lam Dong province has written 53 posts MARD, the proposal allows the province to cooperate with Kraig Biocraft Laboratores Group (KBL) US testing transgenic silkworm rearing - hybrid spider silk. Mr. Lai Hung, the Director of the Plant Protection Department, Lam Dong, said the reason KBL Group Lam Dong selected partner spider and silkworm rearing trials because this is the "capital" sericulture industry VN. Currently strawberry acreage of Lam Dong on 3,800 ha, the output of 54,000 tons.
However, Document No. 10246 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said: "For transgenic animals, very few policies in the world to apply for the assay to assess the impact on the environment and biodiversity, largely due to difficult risk management. Show in VN no legal framework and incompetent management of this new field. "Therefore, the Ministry of Forestry Council requested is temporarily not deploy the KBL Group in collaboration with project implementation transgenic silkworm breeding until the legal framework.
In this regard, Mr. Nguyen Tien Dung, director of Silk Textile Co., Ltd. Vietnam Siek (former deputy director of Visintex, of corporations sericulture VN), who has 24 years with mulberry branches silk and silkworm hybrid study of spiders, said hybrid silkworm silk of spiders quality is not high, only to cotton, hard to bring economic efficiency.
http://www.thanhnien.com.vn/kinh-te/dung-trien-khai-du-an-tam-lai-nhen-521830.html
Sounds like Mr Dung is trying hard to keep KBLB out of Vietnam.
Keyword being "temporary" in the article below. I'm not worried about the delay at all. I'm just happy to hear the lights are still on at KBLB. I'd rather hear about a delay than that the whole program is a flop. To me, this news is a breath of fresh air. The ministry of agriculture in Vietnam must think Kraig is onto something if they temporarily halted the program. I think Rayo is right- going to have to grease the right palm. Not being a cynic, it's a fact in every country. Vietnam isn't so stupid as to let this slip into the hands of the other silk producing nations first. They already know that China (the looters of the world) will copy or steal the technology from someone soon enough anyway. That's how they do everything. Now I'm just worried how much this will cost us.
http://www.vietlinh.vn/library/news/2014/agriculture_livestock_news_show_2014.asp?ID=1236
However, speaking as a leader of Lam Dong DARD prior written proposal temporarily not project between Lam Dong with KBL Group silkworm breeding hybrid spider that: "There is most likely that this is a breakthrough New in agriculture, especially in the fields of sericulture, but the law is the law; Vietnam because no legal framework in this new field should force us to comply, that is temporarily not able to implement the project. "
Prior to this decision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, opinion also raises questions: Is such that we have missed an opportunity in agricultural development, namely development of sericulture? However, it has been suggested that prudence of such MARD is required by the genetic modification are still two sets of conflicting opinions!
Maybe it's time to send someone to knock on the door just to see if Kim is still at it. Wouldn't hurt to check.
It's entirely possible that the mutant worms have attacked him and he's bound up and unable to communicate.
It could happen. I've seen it on Creature Feature. (Happened to Frodo too.)
How many days before the effective date was there a PR in 2011?
I wasn't expecting news tomorrow because the S-1 wasn't effective yet. So apparently we could hear news tomorrow after all?
Looks like it's the same application.
That's it. Although the link we were given a few weeks ago was a European site.
If you go here:
https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP11833071
and click on "all documents" on the left hand side, you'll be able to see all the amendments.
Go to the first section of page 5 of this document:
"Amended claims filed after receipt of European search report". Dated 9/24/14
I'd copy and paste but I'm on a tablet and it won't allow me to do that for some reason.
I think it's the same document you referenced in Google but not sure if Google had all the amendments. Not a big deal, it just caught my eye because it was an actual document pertaining to KBLB that made me think it was related to this latest Warwick patent.
You're right. At the worst, whether KBLB is involved or not, we can see they're in bed with the right company.
What caught my attention was this..."In other embodiments at least one of the protective textiles has AATCC method 100 anti-microbial properties"
Because I remember reading about KBLB patenting a method of attaching anti microbial properties as well as some sort of chemo delivery properties to the fiber. That info was in one of the amendments filed on SEP 30th, 2014 for that European patent that someone posted last week.
Can't remember which amendment it was in, but I remember it was on page 5.
Another Warwick patent published today. It's beyond my ability to understand weather or not any variation of a Kraig fiber is in this.
Hoping Jazz and Eskaminagaga will weigh in.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0331375.html
Article about Randy Lewis et al leaving Wyoming.
http://www.wyomingbusinessreport.com/article/20141112/NEWS/141119979
The ITMA website finally posted a bit more about each nominee. Not much detail but here it is:
http://futurematerialsawards.com/finalist_summaries.html#argo
Kraig Biocraft
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (KBLB) is a cutting edge science company focused on developing spider silk technologies. Kim K. Thompson, Founder and CEO of Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, invented a way to genetically engineer domesticated silkworm to produce spider silk in commercial quantities using a cost effective platform.
As a small, publicly traded company, Kraig has succeeded in developing this technology while leveraging a modest research and development budget to create a series of powerful breakthroughs in genetic engineering technology to produce spider silk under the trademark Monster Silk ®.
Kraig has produced more than 20 different varieties of transgenics each producing a different spider silk; this breakthrough technology has been the subject of a peer reviewed National Academy of Sciences article. In 2014, Kraig moved to small commercial scale production. Recently, Kraig produced the first Monster Silk® sample textile and are determining the best weaves and applications for Monster Silk®.
Welcome to the fashion technology directory
https://sites.google.com/a/fashiontechdirectory.com/wiki/
This wiki has been setup to crowdsource as complete a list as possible of fashion and fabric technology suppliers across the world. - the easier it is for designers to find small suppliers, the more likely they are to experiment with new fabrics and manufacturing processes."
MS made this list. Whether this "fashion tech directory" matters to anyone or not is another matter.
That's what we're hoping but can't say with certainty.
The timeline is right. MS is in the hands of a company that is developing textiles that meet the specs on the Army's wish list.
It's reasonable to expect that Warwick is at least attempting to use the potentially "game changing" textile in those military applications.
Again, we don't know for certain. I'll go so far as to say I confidently hope that MS is being used to meet the Army's needs.
Dealing with the military could explain Kim's silence.
Solicitation Number:
W911QY13R0032
Notice Type:
Award Notice
Contract Award Date:
September 26, 2014
Contract Award Number:
W911QY14C0073
Contract Award Dollar Amount:
$2,981,325.10
Contract Line Item Number:
0001 - 0011
Contractor Awarded DUNS:
001030667
Contractor Awardee:
WARWICK MILLS, INC. (001030667)
301 TURNPIKE RD
NEW IPSWICH, NH 03071-3639
Synopsis:
Added: Mar 29, 2013 7:14 am Modified: Sep 30, 2014 11:03 amTrack Changes
This contract action was not awarded as a fixed price type because uncertainties involved in contract performance did not permit costs to be estimated with sufficient accuracy to use any type of fixed price contract. As such, a cost-reimbursement type action was awarded (FAR 16.301-2).
The purpose of this effort is to develop high R-value thermal insulation for Collective Protection shelters that is lighter, thinner and lower in cube than currently fielded insulation with the additiional benefit of a self-decontaiminating surface.
Contracting Office Address:
ACC-APG - Natick (SPS), ATTN: AMSRD-ACC-N, Natick Contracting Division (R and BaseOPS), Building 1, Kansas Street, Natick, MA 01760-5011
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=a7749e014a8341adb5fd0289aa93c793
"New 11oz CB (chemical/biological) fabric nearing completion at Warwick Mills"
(Scroll to page 10)
http://jocotas.natick.army.mil/July_14/FST_Projects_Army%20PAO_U14-246.pdf
"The U.S. Army tells the textile industry exactly what it wants in the next generation of protective clothing, gear and structures" November 7th, 2014
Way too much to copy and paste. Follow the link:
http://advancedtextilessource.com/2014/11/u-s-army-wish-list/
Reminder of what Warwick is working on:
Warwick Mills Inc., New Ipswich, N.H., is working on a variety of lightweight applications for protective gear, including developing chemical and biological tent materials that weigh 11 ounces, “which is very light,” says Jenny Houston, executive vice president of Warwick Mills. “The material has to act as a barrier plus be able to have all the performance of a tent outer shell. We developed it through a combination of weaving, coating, lamination and adhesion to deliver those properties.”
For PPE, Warwick is working on lightweight products for tropical wear that are insect repellent and offer antifrag properties to provide protection from debris that can come from IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and grenades.
“The materials have a high cover factor to stop a mosquito from penetrating the skin and are also made of a high-tenacity yarn to offer frag protection, which is important for protection from IEDs, for example,” Houston says. “We’re six months into a developmental program for this and are very happy with both the lightness of the material and the frag protection.”
The recreational market—specifically for extreme sports applications that demand abrasion, cut and tear resistance—is often the added beneficiary of military textile advancements. “We leverage designs we’ve developed for NASA or the military and turn them into commercial products,” Houston says.
http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1014_f1_reclaiming_industry.html
I, unlike some, think that this board's only useful purpose is to SHARE DD. There's no point otherwise.
Warwick patent application
Patent Application - PROTECTIVE MID-COVER TEXTILES > Summary
Patent Application No. US 20140272361
Published on Sep 18, 2014
Application No. 14/206076
Filed on Mar 12, 2014
Priority Date -
Abstract
A new class of protective fabrics having good ballistic and fragmentary protection also provide wearable drape, softness, and moisture transport, as well as good UV and abrasion resistance and color acceptance, making them comfortable to wear as garment fabrics. The protective fabrics are constructed from yarns having at least 20% ballistic fibers with greater than 12 gpd tenacity. A combined cover factor of between 55% and 80% avoids added stiffness due to yarn distortion at the crossing points. In embodiments, a long-float weave such as twill or satin with reduced crossing point density improves the hand of the fabric, and in some embodiments provides a different character on each face so that a predominantly staple fabric face is in contact with skin of a user, thereby providing better wearing comfort than a plain weave.
Classification
International:2
D03D 13/00
National:3
428/219
Assignee
Warwick Mills Inc (US) Inc US