Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

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Thank you for those links, I had not seen them before.

I had known that they recieved grants through the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense for quite a bit based on this: https://www.usaspending.gov/Pages/AdvancedSearch.aspx?k=refactored%20materials

You may be right about them wanting to keep these classified, especially with the DOD involved. That may be the reason why there have been no recent patent applications by them and why they are very hush hush about the properties of the fibers.

I still don't think that they will be able to produce these proteins and spin them into fibers as cost effectively as KBLB's methods yet. They have more future potential to downscale the cost as technology improves, but I think KBLB will have the initial lead in the cheapest Spider Silk fibers which should make plenty of money well before Bolt or Spiber can develop and scale their operations to meet KBLB's prices. This is assuming, of course, that KBLB can actually get their initial commercial facility established sometime soon.

By the way, I noticed that you called the company "Bolt Technologies". I had never heard them called this. I googled this term and the only thing that popped up was a company that developes seismic searching systems for the offshore oil industry. Really nothing to do with Spider Silk. Was this a mistake or is this an alternate name for them that I had not heard of before?