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No it isn't...
If 2.5 shows on any stock, it is representative of two dollars and fifty cents....
Webslinger stated SPECIFICALLY 2.5 CENTS, represents two and a half CENTS....
Hope the same doesn't occur, when attempting to interpret KBLB PR'S
Would be synonymous to inflating the minuscule news provided.
In it's simplest terms, sure it is....
What is a research project?
A research project is an academic, scientific, or professional undertaking to answer a research question. Research projects can take many forms, such as qualitative or quantitative, descriptive, longitudinal, experimental, or correlational. What kind of research approach you choose will depend on your topic..
Delighted to see his former employees hired is all...
The "journey" remains the same.
JAPANESE APPAREL BRAND ADORE TO RELEASE WINTER COAT FEATURING BREWED PROTEIN™ FIBER
November 13, 2023
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ADORE, a brand owned by TSI Holdings CO., LTD., will release a double-faced winter coat (a woven garment made of two pieces of fabric sewn together to form a single piece of fabric) using Brewed Protein™ fiber at some ADORE stores and on the official EC site from November 30, 2023 (available only in Japan).
For the brand’s signature product, ADORE has selected our innovative material to create a coat featuring a supple and smooth touch achieved through the fineness of Brewed Protein™ fibers.
Moving forward, we will continue to promote material development and production initiatives to expand sales channels to new brands and companies so that more consumers will have access to our materials as a step towards a more sustainable future.
Details can be found here. (Japanese only).
(Photos available on website)
(EVEN MORE NEWS TO COME)
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Was there ANY indication that ANY AMOUNT of their silk was produced in
SIGNIFICANT quantity?
IF KBLB/PRODIGY ever gets this "project" of theirs off the ground, that 2+
year estimate dwindles down considerably.
GLOBAL SILK SOLUTION JOINT STOCK COMPANY
Address: 117-119-121 Nguyen Du, Ben Thanh Ward, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh Vietnam
Doing Business As: GLOBAL SILK SOLUTION JSC
Key Principal: Nguyen Tuong An
DUN & BRADSTREET
huyen dinh
Chief Accountant
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Unraveling The Secrets Of Spider Silk
Published: November 6, 2023-Dr. Benjamin Schmuck, the Anna Rising Group and Clara Ko, Linkam Scientific Instruments
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Credit: Claudia / Pixabay
Spider silk is a remarkable natural material that has captured the imagination of a group of scientists who are currently exploring its untapped potential in medical and materials science. Its high tensile strength, natural elasticity and environmentally-friendly properties offer exciting advantages in the fields of regenerative medicine and high-performance fabrics, and are positioning spider silk as a material to watch.
The Anna Rising group at Stockholm’s largest university is looking into the potential of synthesizing spider silk at scale, using advanced microscopy to improve understanding of its properties and performance.
Successful Synthesis
To produce spider silk at a scale suitable for commercial use, it must be synthesized. There are two simple reasons for this: firstly, spiders are naturally small and cannibalistic and secondly, spiders produce significantly less silk than silkworms and other producers of natural fibers.
Major ampullate silk is of particular interest to researchers. This type of silk, which is used to construct the rim and spokes of a web, has a similar tensile strength to steel of approximately 1.5 GPa but a much lower density of 1.3 g/cm3. And unlike steel, this type of silk can stretch by up to 30% without breaking.
The unique properties of spider silk are due to proteins called spidroins. Spidroins have a repetitive amino acid structure with segments that fold into “crystalline” regions, while other segments possess unstructured protein chains to deliver the characteristic stretchy, thin line of silk that is as strong as steel. By understanding the effect of lowering the pH on the spidroin protein structure, researchers are able to determine how spider anatomy facilitates silk formation, which in turn allows them to replicate this mechanism and generate impressive lengths of synthetic spider silk.1
The artificial production of spidroins is achieved by inserting the redesigned genetic coding for the protein into microorganisms such as Escherichia coli (E. coli). This process allows researchers to produce large amounts of spidroins, with one liter of bacterial culture yielding tens of kilometers of artificial spider silk.2 Even more impressive than the scale, is the fact that downstream processing of the proteins only requires water-based methods and a simple change of pH for silk spinning. This biomimetic process removes the need for organic solvents, which makes it far better suited to scale up for industrial production both from an economical and environmental perspective.3
Under the microscope
Microscopy techniques allow the researchers to examine spider silk in detail, and closely monitor any micro-scale changes to the material while undergoing tensile and environmental testing. As well as revealing the properties of natural spider silk, microscopy techniques also allow researchers to monitor any differences in performance in synthetically produced spider silk.
Custom microscopy stages have enabled testing under a variety of controlled environmental conditions, to ensure that the synthetic silk is performing as expected and identify whether any change is needed to maintain performance.
In terms of mechanical design, testing 1 cm lengths of filament demands a custom-built solution. The bespoke microscopy stage used by the Anna Rising group features grips that have been designed specifically to accommodate the 1 cm lengths of filament used across its research. Because such short lengths would not fit on a standard industrial tensile tester, customized extender units have been designed to fit these filaments within an environmental chamber to ensure no loss of performance during the test cycle.
Customized microscopy solutions allow the team in Stockholm to better understand the properties of synthetic spider silk and the performance of the material under different conditions by monitoring the effects of temperature and humidity on the fibers. Real-time monitoring enables the team to improve their understanding of the structure-function relationships within spider silk, and how the protein sequence and spinning conditions translate to mechanical properties and performance.
By using the custom system alongside analytical techniques such as bright-field microscopy and polarized light microscopy, the team can determine fiber diameter and behavior during stretching, providing valuable insights into how the molecular alignment relates to fiber strength.
These detailed insights into fiber performance under changing conditions mean that the researchers are well placed to take their research to the next level – applying these findings to real-world applications.
Early Applications
While there seems no shortage of possibilities for synthetic spider silk, the team is currently focusing its attention on technical application. Multi-filament yarn is being benchmarked against known fibers, to assess suitability for applications including healthcare, performance clothing, and shock absorbers for robotics and aerospace.
As the threads have the potential to replace plastic-based fibers, synthetic spider silk may present a strong opportunity for the textiles industry to reduce its environmental impact. Currently, 67% of fibers contribute significantly to environmental concerns4 such as CO2 emissions and non-biodegradable plastic waste filling oceans and landfill. As a sustainable, biocompatible option, spider silk shows considerable promise.
The team is particularly excited about the clinical applications of spider silk. Early animal studies show that natural spider silk can assist in regrowing nerve fibers to span a gap of 6 cm without triggering a major immune response,5 and the team is taking this to the next level by investigating the potential of spider silk in bone and tissue regeneration. Work has already been done by culturing a large number of human stem cells onto “scaffolds” of spider silk fibers, which has been a huge success.6 However, as the biomedical industry is heavily regulated, and extensive testing is required to provide data suitable for regulatory scrutiny, the team is taking the long-term view.
The Future Is Spider Silk
The unique combination of spider silk’s strength with extensibility in a lightweight, biodegradable and biocompatible format makes it unlike any other material available today. As the Anna Rising group continues to develop its understanding of this unique material, synthetic spider silk is set to fulfill its true potential.
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TUP STOCK ALERT: WHAT TO KNOW AS TUPPERWARE DELAYS Q3 EARNINGS REPORT
1 DAY AGO
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Unfortunately, that appears to be the tale of the tape.
To all the "BIRK-amaniacs" investing in this stock, you certainly know how to pick em.
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It's beginning to appear that way.
Their valuation against the "backdrop," will make it investment-worthy to the public at large.
They're apparently on the move, with no signs of slowing down.
2023 was a historic global starting point for Spiber.
Next year will even raise more eyebrows, while garnering even more interest.
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Via an eventual IPO; perhaps.
SPIBER TO PARTICIPATE IN FUTURE FABRICS EXPO NYC EDITION
November 07, 2023
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Spiber will participate in the Future Fabrics Expo held in New York City, the dedicated global sourcing destination for commercially-available, sustainable, and responsibly-produced textiles and materials for the fashion industry. Our latest Brewed Protein™ material samples will be on display at our booth.
In addition, Callie Clayton, Spiber’s Global Client Relations Manager, will participate in a panel session on November 14 to discuss the topic of “Circularity”.
Date: November 14–15, 2023
Location: White Space Chelsea, 530 W 25th Street, New York, NY 10001
Event details can be found here.
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Analysts Are Optimistic About Birkenstock as They Initiate Coverage on the Market’s Newest Shoe Stock
By Shoshy Ciment-Mon, November 6, 2023 at 2:45 PM EST
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Analysts had positive sentiments about Birkenstock as they initiated coverage on the market’s newest footwear stock to kick off the week.
The German company made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange in October after pricing an IPO at $46 per share, for an $8.6 billion valuation. Shares of the shoe brand fell 12.6 percent to $40.20 on the company’s first day on the market and fell another 6.6 percent to $37.55 the following day.
Amid a broader market rebound in the past week, the stock picked back up. As of Monday at 2:45 p.m., shares of Birkenstock were at $41.86.
In their notes initiating coverage, analysts highlighted Birkenstock’s brand history, loyal consumer base, product assortment and distribution model as positive assets that will help the stock increase in value over time.
In his note announcing a $55 price target, Williams Trading analyst Sam Poser chalked up the brand’s rough first days on the market to “under appreciation of Birkenstock’s heritage, culture, product, breadth of product opportunities and execution.”
This rich history, combined with strong brand management and a firm grasp of a scarcity business model, is what gives Poser confidence “the stock will be trading well higher than it is today” when it releases earnings for the first time.
“Birkenstock has proven over the last 10 years (that it can) meticulously drive consistent sales growth with industry leading margins,” Poser wrote.
Jefferies analyst Randal Konik also highlighted Birkenstock’s reputation as a “historic brand with a loyal customer base” in his note giving the stock a $50 price target.
“We believe the company’s evolution into a universally known brand with a loyal customer base speaks to the company’s ability to continue to adapt and develop new silhouettes to maintain existing customers while also attracting new ones,” wrote Konik. “Moving forward, we believe the company can leverage its well-known brand, and its vertically integrated multi-channel distribution model to further improve brand awareness and increase its addressable market.”
In the prospectus document filed for its IPO, Birkenstock noted its engrained presence with certain consumers and said that the feminist movement spurred demand for Birkenstock as early as the 1990s, when women took to the sandals to “free themselves from long-standing fashion norms that required wearing painful high heels and other constricting footwear.” More recently, Birkenstock played a central role in the box office smash hit, “Barbie,” which sparked a 110% increase on searches for Birkenstock Arizonas following its release, according to Lyst.
BMO Capital Markets analyst Simeon Siegel said there is still more runway for growth in within core business, product extension and geographic expansion in his note announces a target price of $50 and an “outperform” rating for the stock.
“We believe Birkenstock represents a brand with significant top-line whitespace ahead,” Siegel said, also noting Birkenstock’s “proven track record of consistently growing average selling price.”
Another benefit to Birkenstock, Stifel analyst Jim Duffy pointed out, is its operating model, which consolidates most of its product manufacturing in German facilities. This allows for “complete oversight of quality control throughout the production process, and insulation from potential upstream supply challenges,” Duffy said.
“The unique vertically integrated European operating model prioritizes distribution quality and supply chain control, compared to the industry standard of sourcing product primarily from Asia,” Duffy wrote.
International expansion is another area of opportunity for the brand, read a note from HSBC Global Research.
“It appears that BIRK’s awareness is very low outside of four key countries: Germany, the US, the UK and France,” read the note. “And this means that, on paper, the brand could become much bigger in years ahead if it manages to build on that awareness more broadly.”
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Okay BIRK...
I SEE YOU...
Keep up the good work.
You mean bigger than the alleged metric ton production and Spydasilk website prognostication in 2022, of course.
I don't blame you...
The new CEO has an uphill climb ahead of her.
Nothing is entirely "free" these days...
Time spent with endless Captcha's not confirming the boxes clicked as correct, was just one such instance....
I recall a few company faucets came with the caveat of one including their phone number, etc., prior to claiming.
Give your info to certain companies and the end result is serious spam overload, as they (some, not all) sell your information.
This is additionally my concern; security.
You never know these days.
When I downloaded it, my MacBook began getting "glitchy."
One minute my coins were transferring; next day no mention and coins remained at IHub.
Could've been a mere coincidence but in this day and age I tend to err on the side of caution.
INNOVATION AWARDS: 3D-OPS USES 3D-PRINTED SPIDER SILK TO SOLVE BIG PROBLEMS IN MEDICINE
By Emily Hamann – Staff Writer, Sacramento Business Journal-Nov 3, 2023
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The company 3D-OPS began in the basement of the library at the University of California, Davis.
Davis-based 3D-OPS 3D-prints synthetic spider silk to use for health care purposes.
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More like "pumping out "NONEage." at the time....
As compared to tonnage.
Who, pray/tell is the source of info, when presenting lines in such manner?
What hasn't been taken into account are posters putting out their version of TRUTH are here to stay.
IF the company even has a scintilla of evidence of success, no one is going anywhere.
That's where adapting to ones environment becomes evident.
KBLB is nowhere near the point of SUCCESSFUL COMMERCIALIZATION of even ONE of their fibers.
I suggest the OPTIMIST PRIMES get use to it.
Have been for seemingly EONS now.
Thanks...
Still keeping mines right where IHub started the whole crypto- Pavlovian "experiment."
The worse that can happen, has already been done to the coins and share price.
I was looking for it also.
Looks like it's over.
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SPIBER AND KOMATSU MATERE TO PARTNER ON APPLICATION OF BREWED PROTEIN™ POLYMERS TO MOISTURE-PERMEABLE WATERPROOF MEMBRANES AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW LEATHER SUBSTITUTES
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Spiber is pleased to announce the start of a new partnership with Komatsu Matere, a leading fabric manufacturer involved in diverse business domains ranging from fashion to nanotech materials. Together, our two companies will explore the development of products utilizing our proprietary technologies and expertise.
This partnership will combine Spiber’s Brewed Protein™ polymers with technology from Komatsu Matere, which is well-known for its post-processing of synthetic fibers, to develop moisture-permeable waterproof membranes as well as a completely new alternative material to leather that is neither synthetic nor natural leather, but is composed of structural proteins materials.
Komatsu Matere is also planning to make an investment in Spiber, and moving forward we will work together to develop new products by leveraging the strengths of both companies to further expand the range of new applications and development areas for Brewed Protein materials.
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They have always been a concern, in one way shape or form.
C'MON BIRK...
WE'LL SEE $40.00 PLUS, BEFORE THANKSGIVING.
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Wonder if instructions for those who left their coins in IHub will reveal itself tomorrow.
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Interesting volume...
Thought I'd see way more donations to the community faucet ON THE LAST DAY.
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