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yup! Volume dead in water
We stand to see $0.068 again. Their was a massive selloff few minutes ago, almost 300,000 shares. That's a lot to dump.
sit and wait game
How convenient that KBLB is producing in the same area as Nike and Under Armor...hmmmmmmmmm :)
http://www.dbusiness.com/daily-news/Annual-2016/Ann-Arbors-Kraig-Biocraft-Laboratories-Expands-in-Asia-Opens-Vietnam-Office/
market opened 2hrs ago and it's Friday lol
Karig Biocraft Laboratories Inc under it has partners and large stake holders in the form of shareholders for their contributions.
The initial big shareholders are:
(1) University of Wyoming (for giving exclusive right for their genetic sequencing work, but not complete)
(2) University of Notre Dame (for working with KBLB to successfully finish the genetic sequencing)
After that it's all whoever purchased.
KBLB, UofW, UofND, don't care to sell their shares cheap, especially at this price. Word is out that they completed all there R&D milestones, and the new milestones are getting into commercial production which they have already completed most of those milestones.
Personally, it's amazing how they have never missed a beat on their milestones like a train that's building steam and momentum.
I call Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc, the Unicorn of OTC.
Well, I go based on fact, so when I look at a volume chart spread over 5yrs, 1yr, and also lifespan of the company, the volume is actually coming alive.
But hey, I already know people from BOLT are intentionally manipulating the price down. TISS TISS, sore losers. You try to talk about Bolt on this blog lol...give me a break. Facts are Facts, the rest is is nothing but jaw flapping.
I accumulated long time ago, but there are people late in the game doing whatever they can to get in against the rising volume and agains the PR that's been released. That's their prerogative.
Huge gap in the 7's as nobody is selling
NYSE, NASDAQ, had companies last couples years that plummeted from $20+ right into single digit pennies, because they lied in their books.
Yet, nobody is saying anything. But because OTC has properly priced stocks, people insult it.
If you ask me, OTC last couple of years has been more legit than NYSE and NASDAQ. Lots of good companies have started in OTC, and moved to NYSE, and NASDAQ. But the IPOs in NYSE and NASDAQ, always overpriced only to mostly drop after.
You're being negative on OTC because it's pennies, but really it's properly priced stocks.
looks like the same old tiny blocks of shares are being recycled to intentionally bring down the pps. 15,000 on open all the time selling at the lowest pps, when there is always a big gap between the Ask and Bid. Same story every day.
No reason for the pps to be this low. Plenty of junior mining companies, and other companies in massive debt trading for x10 this pps.
Why do you knock OTC? Big companies on OTC. I left you a link from Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2012/06/13/top-otc-firms-including-adrs-gain-market-visibility/#45f1a9ae4c48
Other:
http://m.benzinga.com/article/4181022
No I've spent a lifetime studying engineering. I'm not a geneticist, but I am on the other side that deals with product development. So as someone in engineering, I find reading some of these comments, like an English major trying to talk about engineering dynamic properties using diction from Shakespeare.
Tensile tests, especially at various temperatures, test the actual composite structure of the property. Consistency is critical, because you don't take the average, rather the lowest reading out of all, because that's what you can guarantee. So mixing solutions doesn't work. You literally have to have the bonds form on a molecular level and not just cohesion between two different materials. If that's the case, then you have a composite material, which means made up of more than one material, and with KBLB it's not a composite material. It's just one material. Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, wins hands down.
PS just remember when people use composite, they fail test requirements depending on the test, because different material have different temperature characteristics which will actually act as resistance to uniformity, making the composite material weak by one material stronger than the other, those under heat or cold, will drop in tensile strength compared to seal temperatures. So, KBLB wins! Just waiting for results which a few months wait is a drop from 6+ yrs
From Bolt website. hahahahahahahahah!!!!
"Our Production
What are your fibers made of?
Primarily sugar, water, salts and yeast."
Really??? Two Universities and a company spend 10+ years in research, and Bolt website with no product talks about using "Primarily sugar, water, salts and yeast." WOW HAHAHAHAHAHA Stop mentioning anyone who known how to make a website and that's about it. Show us the thread and send it to South Korea for testing. Bolt making edible underwear.
There's a post on youtube of a guy charting and saying he's flipping a penny and taking profit. That's his prerogative. But it explains the action why this is spinning it's tires in the same spot. No reason for us to be sitting in 7's, except for the reason some people are constantly using the high volume to flip over and over.
STEM CELL: KBLB's silk can be used as scaffolding in stem cell growth application (13:35 of the video. see link)
KBLB is the only one with tons of spools of samples and fabric, which they made at a commercial production level as well. Everyone else just talks lol
check in the video
"Kraig Labs takes delivery of last piece of process equipment for the facility"
ANN ARBOR, Mich., -August 9, 2016- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) (“Company”), the leading developer of spider silk based fibers, today announced
“The Indiana production centre represents our first domestic production expansion and is a major step towards our near term goal of a fully self-contained US spider silk production facility,” said COO Jon Rice.
http://www.kraiglabs.com/kraig-labs-completes-buildout-of-its-new-spider-silk-production-facility-ahead-of-schedule/
KBLB's successful silk like the spider silk can stretch 140% of it's length even in the cold. Kevlar and Graphine can't do that.
Analysts done in South Korea, and was discovered KBLB's silk absorbed large amounts of energy.
KBLB's silk is unmatched!
KBLB on NEWS TV (Jul 2016)
TH BOSON GLOBE: Toward the holy grail of body armor
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/07/30/toward-holy-grail-body-armor/9APLO3PS0gRIyndoVG2H2O/story.html
By Kevin Hartnett GLOBE CORRESPONDENT JULY 31, 2016
SILK IS AN ELEGANT material, often used to manufacture delicate garments like camisoles and scarfs. It’s also incredibly tough, good for catching flies or stopping bullets. Wait, what?
A startup company is trying to do what others before (yes, it has been tired) have failed to achieve — harvest spider silk in order to create body armor for the military.
The company, Kraig Biocraft of Ann Arbor, Mich., recently signed a contract with the Department of Defense to manufacture “ballistic shoot packs,” which will be used in preliminary firing-range tests. If those go well, the company will receive additional money to improve its spider silk and — one day — manufacture ballistic garments. It’s basic military procurement, except in this case the underlying material is completely novel: a spider-inspired product called Dragon Silk that is tougher than Kevlar because it’s able to stretch without breaking.
Kevlar is notoriously brittle. “It breaks at 3 percent stretching,” says Jon Rice, chief operating office at Kraig Biocraft. “Spider silks can stretch 30 to 40 percent, and, because toughness is [a combination of] elasticity and strength, spider silk is tougher than Kevlar.”
Silk has a long history of military applications. Chinese and Japanese warriors donned protective silk garments more than a millennium ago. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria owned a bulletproof silk vest, too. Unfortunately, he left it at home on June 28, 1914. Tests conducted at the Royal Armouries in England in 2014 confirmed that the vest likely would have stopped the assassin’s bullet that killed him that day.
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Spider silk is the strongest natural silk of all but also the hardest to harvest. While huge colonies of silk worms agreeably spin their silk cocoons in factory settings for harvesting, factory-farmed spiders attack one another. Over the years, researchers have tried different workarounds, including a project out of the University of Wyoming more than a decade ago to genetically engineer goats to produce spider silk proteins in their milk. That didn’t work because once the researchers had collected the proteins, they still had to spin them into silk threads — and the process they used kept producing a finished product that was brittle. To avoid that problem, Kraig Biocraft takes an even more direct approach, genetically modifying silk worms that produce the proteins and do the spinning.
“The silk worm is nature’s silk protein factory,” says Rice. “For thousands of years we’ve designed these guys to produce 50 percent of their body weight in silk protein. We have this great silk factory, [the question was], how do you change the recipe inside worms?”
That work proceeded in two steps. In the 2000s, biologist Randy Lewis at the University of Wyoming (who’s now at Utah State University) identified the sequences of spider silk genes responsible for their remarkable strength and flexibility. Around that same time, geneticist Malcolm Fraser at the University of Notre Dame developed a tool called piggyBac for inserting novel genes into insect genomes. In 2006, Kim Thompson, founder of Kraig Biocraft, approached Fraser and asked him if it was possible to use piggyBac to introduce these spider silk genes into silk worms.
“He came to me and said he had these genes and would I be able to engineer them into a silk worm and make spider silk in the silk worm,” says Fraser. “I said, yeah, of course.”
It’s taken some time. Over the last half-decade, Fraser and his colleagues, including biologist Don Jarvis at the University of Wyoming, have created increasingly powerful transgenic worms by injecting genes into worm eggs and breeding the top-performers. The product they’re trying to re-create is the silk made by the Golden Orb spider, specifically its dragline silk. Currently they’re able to closely approximate it. Soon, they hope to achieve the full trick, completely replacing the worm’s native silk with their own spider silk design. Other experts in the area consider the work promising, while noting that it still has a long way to go.
“It does seem like a good argument [Kraig Biocraft] put[s] forward, but it is still quite a small investment at this stage,” Gareth McKinley, an engineer at MIT who worked on the goat-spider silk project, writes in an e-mail.
For the military, the appeal is clear. As anyone who’s ever wrapped themselves in a high-end robe can attest, silk is light and breathable, and conforms lightly to the human body. That makes for a nice morning lounging in bed and also a better experience in a combat theater. The spider silk armor could be worn underneath hard ceramic plates to prevent bullets or shrapnel fragments from penetrating to lethal depths. It might also offer protection for parts of the body that are difficult to shield with rigid armor.
“One of the key methods of injury from [improvised explosive devices] is tiny little fragments that penetrate the groin, pelvic, and anal areas,” says Francisco Martinez, chief technology officer for the Boston-based company Protect the Force, which makes equipment for soldiers. “Those are areas where, when a fragment breaks an artery, it’s hard to stop the bleeding.”
This new spider silk technology is still in early stages and may never make it to market. But it’s more certain that the kind of light, strong material you can make from spider silk is the future of body armor. And, while it may be odd to picture soldiers draped in silk, a certain comic book superhero long ago established that a skintight spider suit is good gear, if you can get it.
Kevin Hartnett is a writer in South Carolina. He can be reached at kshartnett18@gmail.com.
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories said it has completed the build out of its new Indiana production facility ahead of schedule
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textile-news/kraig-biocraft-completes-build-out-of-new-indiana-facility-191062-newsdetails.htm
Developer of spider silk based fibres Kraig Biocraft Laboratories said it has completed the build out of its new Indiana production facility ahead of schedule and is installing the last piece of process equipment.
Over the next week the company will complete all pre-production checks and plans to start bringing in silkworms in the week beginning August 15.
According to the company, this facility was set up with the intent to fulfill its contract with the US government; however, additional production capacity will be marketed to other clients.
COO Jon Rice said, “The Indiana production centre represents our first domestic production expansion and is a major step towards our near term goal of a fully self-contained US spider silk production facility.”
CEO Kim Thompson too said, “Our efforts have demonstrated the ability to recreate the incredible properties of spider silk. This facility now demonstrates that we can bring those materials to the market.” (AR) - See more at: http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textile-news/kraig-biocraft-completes-build-out-of-new-indiana-facility-191062-newsdetails.htm#sthash.lLnWmGT4.dpuf
CNN AUG 1 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/01/politics/army-spiderweb-body-armor/
Washington (CNN)American soldiers on the battlefield might one day depend on spiderwebs to save their lives.
The Army now operates in some of the hottest places on the globe -- Baghdad can reach 125 degrees in summer -- but its current body amor for soldiers can weigh 30 pounds or more and includes woven Kevlar and ceramic plates.
Now, some relief might be on the way.
The Army is exploring whether the material spiders use to make their webs could be used to replace Kevlar and provide lighter, stronger and more comfortable protective gear.
"Mother Nature has created and optimized many extraordinary materials," said Debi Dawson, a spokesperson for the Army's Program Executive Office Soldier, the body responsible for boosting the service's capabilities.
Spider silk "could have the ideal combination of high strength, high toughness and bio-compatibility that no man-made fibres could reach."
To that end, her office awarded a $99,962 contract in mid-July in order to produce testing packs to see how the material holds up under fire.
Spider silk is "one of the toughest materials known to man," according to Jon Rice, the chief operating officer of the Ann Arbor, Michigan, company Kraig Biocraft that received the contract.
Rice said it was "almost as strong as Kevlar and about 10 times more flexible."
Spider silk is also lighter than Kevlar, a synthetic finer first developed in the 1960s and currently used in tires and protective gear such as helmets and tactical vests.
And since today's counterinsurgency and training missions often require soldiers to be out of their vehicles and bases, engaging with local populations and forces on foot, mobility is particularly important in whatever amor they wear.
About six years ago, Kraig Biocraft was able to genetically engineer silkworms to produce spider silk, which Rice said allowed the company to produce the material in an economical way.
The process combines the strength of spider silk with the mass production ability of silk worms, which produce traditional silk.
Rice added that the idea of using the technology for military applications came early on in the development process.
He said he had the opportunity to accompany the US Marine Corps during their Cobra Gold training exercise in Thailand. After trying on their body amor in the more than 100-degree-heat, he was struck by how heavy and immobile the protective gear was.
"I'm passionate about keeping these guys safe," he said.
The Army noted that the project is still in its earliest exploratory stages but said the research could have a major impact down the road.
https://transgenicnews.com/2016/08/09/army-silk/
US ARMY NOW DEVELOPING “DRAGON SILK” BODY ARMOR USING TRANSGENIC SILKWORMS
August 9, 2016 · by Admin · Bookmark the permalink. ·
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The US Army has given a company a contract, potentially valued up to $1 million, to develop a material code-named “Dragon Silk.” No, it isn’t actually trying to replicate the mythical qualities of the scales of Drogon from Game of Thrones. However, it is possibly the far superior successor to Kevlar, the bulletproof, life-saving material worn by combatants the world over – and it is made from spider silk, one of the strongest natural fibers known to science.
Kraig Biocraft, the bioengineering company in question, has for some time been using genetically altered (transgenic) silkworms to produce a special form of spider silk. Although spiders themselves normally produce this, making a cost-effective spider silk farm is notoriously difficult. After all, they don’t continuously produce silk, and certainly not enough to be harvested. Their cannibalistic behavior also tends to be something of a problem.
On the other hand, their transgenic silkworms have been producing a composite silk – as strong as spider silk but far easier to produce – for some time now, which has now been dubbed “Dragon Silk.”
Thanks to its basis in spider silk, bundles of this material are quite resistant to friction and impacts. It should come as no surprise, then, that the US Army has asked Kraig Biocraft to produce several ballistic “shoot packs” in order to see if they’d make effective body armor.
The main advantage of this material over Kevlar is that it’s far more flexible and at least 10 times as elastic. Kevlar is essentially inflexible, whereas Dragon Silk could be wrapped around a variety of complex shapes.
The downside is that Kevlar is still “stronger” overall, in that it can withstand forces of up to 3 gigapascals (435,113 pounds per square inch) as opposed to Dragon Silk’s 2 gigapascals (290,075 pounds per square inch). Still, this is pretty good going – the maximum pressure exerted by a .44 magnum shell is 0.25 gigapascals (36,000 pounds per square inch).
Compared to other companies attempting to produce spider silk technologies, the use of transgenic silkworms is proving to be remarkably cost-effective. A rival, AMSilk, produces their equivalent of Dragon Silk at a cost of $137,500 per kilogram, whereas Kraig Biocraft manufactures it for just under $300 per kilogram. They also claim to be the only spider silk material manufacturers that have peer-reviewed publications to their name.
If the contract goes well, it may no longer be Kevlar but genetically engineered spider silk, that protects soldiers and military personnel around the world from potentially fatal injuries. It now appears that they are in competition with the US Air Force, who is banking on taking advantage of the tough plating of the psychopathic mantis shrimp to design some advanced armor once again inspired by nature.
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Company's Latest Press Releases
http://www.kraiglabs.com/kraig-labs-completes-buildout-of-its-new-spider-silk-production-facility-ahead-of-schedule/
KRAIG LABS COMPLETES BUILDOUT OF ITS NEW SPIDER SILK PRODUCTION FACILITY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
Kraig Labs takes delivery of last piece of process equipment for the facility
ANN ARBOR, Mich., -August 9, 2016- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) (“Company”), the leading developer of spider silk based fibers, today announced that it has completed the buildout of its new Indiana production facility ahead of schedule. At this time the Company is installing the last piece of process equipment. Over the next week the Company will complete all pre-production checks and plans to start bringing in silkworms the week of August 15. This facility was initially established to fulfill the Company’s contract with the US Government. Additional production capacity from this facility will be used to satisfy material needs from industry collaborators and pending customers.
“The Indiana production centre represents our first domestic production expansion and is a major step towards our near term goal of a fully self-contained US spider silk production facility,” said COO Jon Rice.
“The opening of this facility is an exciting moment for Kraig Labs and the future of commercially sustainable spider silk production,” said CEO and Founder Kim Thompson. “Our efforts in the lab have demonstrated the ability to recreate the incredible properties of spider silk, this facility now demonstrates that Kraig Labs can bring those materials to the market.”
To view the most recent edition of Kraig’s Spider Sense quarterly newsletter and/or to sign up for Company alerts, please go to www.kraiglabs.com/newsletter.
For more information about Spider Silk, check it out at www.kraiglabs.com/spider-silk.
About Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc.
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (www.KraigLabs.com), a fully reporting biotechnology company is the leading developer of genetically engineered spider silk based fiber technologies. The Company has achieved a series of scientific breakthroughs in the area of spider silk technology with implications for the global textile industry.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Information
Statements in this press release about the Company’s future and expectations other than historical facts are “forward-looking statements.” These statements are made on the basis of management’s current views and assumptions. As a result, there can be no assurance that management’s expectations will necessarily come to pass. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by phrases such as “believes,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “foresees,” “estimated,” “hopes,” “if,” “develops,” “researching,” “research,” “pilot,” “potential,” “could” or other words or phrases of similar import. Forward looking statements include descriptions of the Company’s business strategy, outlook, objectives, plans, intentions and goals. All such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security.
Ben Hansel, Hansel Capital, LLC
(720) 288-8495
ir@KraigLabs.com
From the company website in: 'About Us' > 'Management Team'
You find the most recent information from its true source:
-Kim K. Thompson, Founder and CEO
-Jon Rice, COO
Link Below:
http://www.kraiglabs.com/management-team/
University of Wyoming has the rights to Spider Silk genetic sequencing, and it's exclusive to Kraig. But UofW went only so far and still hadn't completed it, and Kraig was able to solve it in addition to UofW work, which again has been exclusive rights to Kraig. In the end, Kraig, finished and solved it.
In exchange, University of Wyoming for sharing their patented work exclusively with Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc, University of Wyoming was given shares in KBLB. And rightfully so, because they knew Kraig Labs was going to finish the race, and wanted a chance to profit from the work they started but finished by Kraig. Kraig also has the rights to the new solutions that completed the work UofW couldn't, but UofW still got a piece of the action by being shareholders.
It's over. You have University of Wyoming, the University of Notre Dame, and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. One started it, the other finished it.
End of story, move on!
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Spider Silk Technology
Golden Orb Weaver Spider Silk
While scientists have been able to replicate the proteins that are the building blocks of spider silk, two technological barriers have (until now) stymied production. These barriers are the inability to form these proteins into a spider silk finer with the desired mechanical characteristics, and to do this cost effectively.
To solve these problems, Kraig invented a new technology and acquired the exclusive right to use the patented genetic sequences for numerous fundamental spider silk proteins.
We have placed ourselves in an advanced position by working collaboratively with the leading universities which developed some of the most relevant genetic engineering technologies. In fact, most of our genetic engineering work takes place inside university laboratories.
Kraig is the world leader in genetically engineered spider silk technologies. We earned that place by applying our proprietary genetic engineering spider silk technology to an organism which is already one of the most efficient commercial producers of silk: The domesticated silkworm.
Kraig’s spider silk technology builds upon the unique advantages of the domesticated silkworm for this application. The silkworm is ideally suited to produce genetically engineered spider silk because it is already an efficient commercial and industrial producer of silk. Forty percent (40%) of the caterpillars’ weight is devoted to the silk glands. The silk glands produce large volumes of protein, called fibroin, which are then spun into a composite protein thread (silk). [1]
We have used genetic engineering technology to create spider silk. A part of Kraig’s intellectual property portfolio is the exclusive right to use the patented spider silk gene sequences in silkworm.[2]
[2] Kraig has obtained certain exclusive rights to use numerous spider silk genetic sequences which are the subject of five US patents held by the University of Wyoming. The University of Wyoming is a leader in spider silk research, and the University of Wyoming Foundation is a Kraig shareholder.
http://www.kraiglabs.com/spider-silk/
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[2] Kraig has obtained certain exclusive rights to use numerous spider silk genetic sequences which are the subject of five US patents held by the University of Wyoming. The University of Wyoming is a leader in spider silk research, and the University of Wyoming Foundation is a Kraig shareholder.
Reference Link (found at the end of the page)
http://www.kraiglabs.com/spider-silk/
These guys have a lot of "we don't know.." etc. Sounds like of bs, and story telling. Again, many have tried, and failed and lost the race.
They don't have a wikipedia page talking about their published work, nothing. No intellectual property, no patents, nothing but a fancy webpage.
If they had any agreements, people are breaking contracts. I have a Patagonia jacket, Super thin and super light, perfect for not taking up any space when trekking in the mountains in BC, but a tear makes it garbage. I highly doubt Patagonia will sit and wait for Bolt, who already lost the race, and can't do anything unless you're taking about stealing intellectual property or patents. It's over for them, unless they want to try goats lol
*Video: Harvesting Silk From a Spider. (click below) The video is hilarious.
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc have the only product in the world, and it cost are perfect for mass production.
Right from wikipedia
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. was founded by Kim Thompson in April 2006 to develop and commercialize spider silks and other high performance polymers using spider silk gene sequences discovered and invented at the University of Wyoming by Dr. Randy Lewis, in combination with genetic engineering strategies developed by Dr. Malcolm Fraser (University of Notre Dame) and Donald Jarvis (University of Wyoming).[1]
The Science Edit
The method used to genetically modify the silkworm uses the PiggyBac Transposon vector discovered and developed by Dr. Fraser at the University of Notre Dame. Specific sequences of spider silk DNA are inserted into the genetic makeup of the silkworm to create a strain of the insect that now produces the spider protein. They are able to customize the sequences that are inserted into the silkworm, thus giving the ability to customize the resulting silkworm's thread strength and flexibility. To ensure the silkworm has been genetically modified, a gene was attached that gave the transgenic silkworms red glowing eyes. The thread produced by the transgenic silkworms is close to the strength and flexibility of the native spider. Strength relative to native spider silk is 80%.[2] Kraig Biocraft Laboratories is not the first to create transgenic silkworms incorporating spider silk proteins. Where Kraig Labs has succeeded is that the spider silk proteins are integrated structurally into the transgenic silkworm fiber.[3]
Silkworms are not the only species to be altered in the attempt to create a new source of spider silk. Another firm, Nexia Biotech, created Transgenic goats. These goats produced spider silk proteins in their milk. The finished fiber, a product of wet spinning, was much thicker than native spider silk and proved not to be commercially viable due to cost.[4]
Artificial Spider Silk Applications Edit
Kraig Labs has successfully created at least 20 transgenic silkworm variants so far, each expressing different levels of spider silk proteins. Silk with strength equaling native spider silk has applications such as: car airbags, bulletproof vests, seat belts, parachutes, nets, and sporting goods.[5] If the future transgenic silkworms are able to exceed the strength of native spider silk then medical applications could be using the recombinant silk. Potential uses in the medical industry are bandages that have the ability to reduce scarring versus using traditional bandages. The silk could also be used as a scaffolding material for artificial tendon and ligament repair.[6]
Scientists Involved Edit
Malcolm. J. Fraser, Jr. Ph.D. Randy Lewis, Ph.D. Donald L. Jarvis, Ph.D.[7]
Awards Won Edit
First US Army Contract Awarded 2016.[8]
ITMA Future Materials Award 15 - Finalist Best Innovation Sustainable Textiles.[9]
ITMA Future Materials Award 15 - Finalist Most Innovative Small Company.[10]
ITMA Future Materials Award 15 - Finalist Best Innovation- Protective Textiles.[11]
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc will corner a market that's been an ancient textile industry dominated by Asia, and now will be American owned and driven. Traditional silk would be obsolete. Who'd imagine a $5Billion USD industry will be knocker over and replaced. This is revolutionary, and ten years after incorporation, the decade long wait is coming to fruition. That $5Billion USD limited to traditional silk, Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc is entering every market, easily approaching $1Trillion USD collective new niche without competition as intellectual property is established.
Hang-on kiddies, thanks to homeland security who's also in the business of protecting intellectual property, this lucrative venture will be a powerhouse.
Right from wikipedia
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. was founded by Kim Thompson in April 2006 to develop and commercialize spider silks and other high performance polymers using spider silk gene sequences discovered and invented at the University of Wyoming by Dr. Randy Lewis, in combination with genetic engineering strategies developed by Dr. Malcolm Fraser (University of Notre Dame) and Donald Jarvis (University of Wyoming).[1]
The Science Edit
The method used to genetically modify the silkworm uses the PiggyBac Transposon vector discovered and developed by Dr. Fraser at the University of Notre Dame. Specific sequences of spider silk DNA are inserted into the genetic makeup of the silkworm to create a strain of the insect that now produces the spider protein. They are able to customize the sequences that are inserted into the silkworm, thus giving the ability to customize the resulting silkworm's thread strength and flexibility. To ensure the silkworm has been genetically modified, a gene was attached that gave the transgenic silkworms red glowing eyes. The thread produced by the transgenic silkworms is close to the strength and flexibility of the native spider. Strength relative to native spider silk is 80%.[2] Kraig Biocraft Laboratories is not the first to create transgenic silkworms incorporating spider silk proteins. Where Kraig Labs has succeeded is that the spider silk proteins are integrated structurally into the transgenic silkworm fiber.[3]
Silkworms are not the only species to be altered in the attempt to create a new source of spider silk. Another firm, Nexia Biotech, created Transgenic goats. These goats produced spider silk proteins in their milk. The finished fiber, a product of wet spinning, was much thicker than native spider silk and proved not to be commercially viable due to cost.[4]
Artificial Spider Silk Applications Edit
Kraig Labs has successfully created at least 20 transgenic silkworm variants so far, each expressing different levels of spider silk proteins. Silk with strength equaling native spider silk has applications such as: car airbags, bulletproof vests, seat belts, parachutes, nets, and sporting goods.[5] If the future transgenic silkworms are able to exceed the strength of native spider silk then medical applications could be using the recombinant silk. Potential uses in the medical industry are bandages that have the ability to reduce scarring versus using traditional bandages. The silk could also be used as a scaffolding material for artificial tendon and ligament repair.[6]
Scientists Involved Edit
Malcolm. J. Fraser, Jr. Ph.D. Randy Lewis, Ph.D. Donald L. Jarvis, Ph.D.[7]
Awards Won Edit
First US Army Contract Awarded 2016.[8]
ITMA Future Materials Award 15 - Finalist Best Innovation Sustainable Textiles.[9]
ITMA Future Materials Award 15 - Finalist Most Innovative Small Company.[10]
ITMA Future Materials Award 15 - Finalist Best Innovation- Protective Textiles.[11]
Normal silk industry= $5Billion USD
Now imagine KBLB redefining that industry.
I've attached a link from May 2014, over 2 years ago, not only showing how dedicated Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. Has achieved not only every milestone set in place, but how clearly they understood how this product can become a commodity in our daily life.
This article is from Benzinga, click below, and understand future value of KBLB.
http://www.benzinga.com/news/14/03/4403085/penny-stock-kraig-biocraft-advances-spider-silk-eyes-5-billion-industry
In the last couple of years, I know of a couple company who did so.
Listing is expensive and takes some process. What's been popular, are reverse mergers, where a listed company that has a symbol, but the company is not doing well, so they make a business agreement with the company to assume their listed symbol. It's fast and cheap, and beneficial for the company who's about to get delisted, by keep the shell there and another company fills it in.
You saw how common silk became so cheap in the 90's, and that's because of manufacturing improvements. Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. will produce to that scale using existing manufacturing. Anyone saying pps in the dollars going forward, yes, that's feasible.
Sit tight, for those who've been holding for so many years, we're closer today than we were many years ago, as it's time for our patience to pay off. This didn't happened overnight, and for those of us who waited, we're waiting for dollars and not cents. You might as well phase out normal silk production and replace them with the GMO's while there at it. This is revolutionary, but 5-6 years some of us waited, a long time, so those coming in now, you're very fortunate to avoid the lineup.
We had a lot of money locked in for a long time, and added through the years as price fluctuated. Believe me, it's still cheap entry plus you don't have to lock your money for long before it's time to harvest profits.
National Geographics, CNN, FOX, MIT Technology Review (basically gods of innovation and high IQ), Popular Science, WASHINGTON POST, NBC, WIRED, Huffington Post, Defence One, Textile World, Fiber2Fashion, PHYS, GIZMO, just to name a few who wrote and published about Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc, and these are just USA alone, because there are news articles all over in many languages from around the world also, yet you call this company garbage. smh
pps fluctuates, what else is new.
I'm a contrarian.
daily volume density since recent news says otherwise
Everything I wrote that you're contradicting is right from the interviews from Kraig Biocraft Laboratories and released investors news. I'm not going to babysit and do your DD for you. I'm going to get back into this hot spring with a mountain view. Good Day!
There are many variation of value, in infancy companies that are not relevant in the books. By that I mean intellectual property assessment, scientific notes which are actually very valuable but difficult to assess valuation, and of course the obvious potential future valuation and ROI.
It's to premature, but we're 6+ years into this, that's a lot of research. When you have universities involved, the stakes are high, and their lawyers are top notch and always settle premium agreements. Negotiations are about legal power, because their are many companies and inventors who's intellectual property is being used without consent, all because 'Big' companies know those guys can't standup to defend themselves. If this, company, Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc was a small companies without powerful institutional backing in which case I'm pretty sure Notre Dame has stakes in the company, the company would have lost control of it's assets and would crumble. That's why the new trend is copyright infringement. You'll find many companies buying rights from small guys, to the rights to intellectual property they can't defend but is used by big corporation, a battle called Patent Monetization. In fact, their are stocks in which you can buy of companies that deal in Patent Monetization. This is not the case with Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc, as they have powerful control of their assets.
You know, I personally find it annoying when the talk in all about buyout. But, I only mentioned buyout because as you know, military potential technology is hot commodity, with lucrative long term futures, far more stable in the long term vs. regular companies producing products or services that can't stand the test of time. We are in a period of war, and it won't settle for the next 100yrs.
I believe organic material production exceeds the value of synthetic materials. Why? Kevlar, and Graphine, require complex manufacturing with strict quality control, and you need to buy materials to be synthesized. Silkworms are natural manufacturing organic "machines" that cost next to nothing. Just breed and duplicates, as the offsprings do carry the GMO parents DNA. With less that 20 insect to make 1km of silk, all you have to worry is about the lifespan of the insect. It's basically the existing silk market, and silk manufacturing got so advanced, silk is no longer a material only the wealthy can produce. This is a parallel production as the standard silk manufacturing. Only difference is the GMO insects and the physical and chemical properties of the silk they produce. Other than that, nobody would know any difference.
I don't want to guess and pps, but we;re fortunate to be at this stage almost a decade later.
Here is a recent example of buyouts you might want to look at, as an example of the trends occurring: Franky Zapata stunned the world by revealing his jet powered 'hoverboard' that could travel at 90mph (150km/h). Now, his firm has been sold to Implant Science, a Department of Homeland Security supplier. This is the trend, with such companies. Kraig Biocraft Laboratories silk is strong and most importantly has a elasticity, something these synthetic fibres like Kevlar don't have.
Just remember, most of our mechanical technology was already designed many decades ago, with the only limitation being material science, as the materials to produce wishing those engineering specs did not exist. Having a strong material is one thing, but they crack rendering them unusable after the fact, but elasticity and strength is and what has always been needed. If you add temperature durability, then you're gold. Synthetic properties has one limitation general public forgets, and that's chemical reaction. You can't have them be in contact or absorbed in various liquids and gases, which cause a reaction and therefore breaking down the lattice structure of the material, completely destroying it's tensile strength under load. But organically produced materials, like this silk, are protein based, and don't have the reaction weakness as synthetic materials. Making them great for industrial application. Seatbelt, harness, radiation hardened cured epoxy shells with woven matting, amor, biomedical, etc all are just the tip of the potential of this material.
So, pps BO, nobody knows except the researchers fully involved. You'd need to do forensic assets assessment to get that. Right now, the pps you see is purely based on cash in/out, which is really archaic and not proper representation of valuation let say if this company where to be weighed by the courts that account for intellectual property. In my opinion, once mass manufacturing starts, which will be very soon and quick, the full potential of this revolutionary industry will be realized. You'll see Nike, and UnderArmour with many more fashion related industries bring out lines of products with this silk blended in their products. Why, because it's really cheap to make. I hope, you're getting the picture of the future valuation of this company. The mass volume accumulation of shares on a daily basis should tell you, people outside of investorhub and other chat sites are accumulating this share. They're suppressing the price from going up, as million of shares accumulation requires no increase in pps. Every penny counts. Once the accumulation period settles, the pps will rise.
This is one time, patience will be worth while.
*** 1 Spool has 1 kilometre of silk. Only less than 20 Silkworm needed, not millions.*** (see video link below)
Did a lot of research. I like how they worked with University of Notre Dame, which legitimizes this company and research.
They then got a US military payment for a demo package, which led to a $1 Million contract.
They then opened a factory in India and Vietnam, best known for their textile industry.
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc, has been able to take a Silk that wasn't able to be produced at an industrial scale, and now made it mass producible in a conventional method that already exists, with these genetically modified insect assets a company that are now property of Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc as they're genetically modified. Copy right laws now adds protection and revenue stream.
India and Vietnam setup sows they're ready to scale for full production, and that's a company in a class of it's own, with intellectual property yet to be valued into it's company valuation, which puts this stock far above todays current trading price.
Volume, and daily capital trade total shows the mass interest in KBLB and surely, it's international news attention shows that the shareholders are global and not just North American shareholders.
A buyout to acquire Kraig's intellectual assets is very probable in the coming 12 months once the scaleability of producing this high tensile silk in mass volume, which has 1000 times cheaper cost than Kevlar, and more attractive properties for soldiers in hot climates, but also in aerospace and medical industry, as Kraig's Lab has indicated insertion of antibacterial protein properties in the silk.
This can very well be the next APPLE stock in infancy stage.
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Earlier video showing the many milestone achieved today spanning over 6+ years in research & development