Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[GTman1]

Just to get an idea of the volume capabilities of an automated production system.
A company in China produces their own fodder(soybean,corn powder,vitamin complex and mulberry leaf powder)and 10,000 tonnes of cocoons per year with 300 workers.

It is intriguing once you start looking at the economics of this type of endeavor.

An average worker in Vietnam makes about $275/month (in 2022). So, 300 workers getting paid an average of $300/ month would roughly cost $90,000 a month in labor. Didn't Kraig Labs send a deposit to the Vietnamese contractor for about $98,000 in Q4 last year? That could work out to 100 workers for 3 months.

That 10,000 tonnes of cocoons in your example likely equates to about 1,500 tonnes of finished silk, or 125 tonnes a month. There is no doubt that once the facilities in Vietnam get going, they can move fast with a relatively small budget, considering about $1 million can get you about 10,000 tonnes of cocoons at a facility like the one in China.