Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[Amateur1]

The pilot program is an extremely important sign because it means that the chicken-egg problem has been solved.
- How can you make enough fiber to prototype commercial products if you don't have a customer?
- How can a customer buy the material when they don't have enough fiber for product development?
This announcement implies that this conundrum has been solved.
1) The amounts of MS available to date have brought potential customers to the point of needing enough silk to make full-blown products for field testing. This is probably not a small amount: how much fiber would you need to create a dozen parachutes and a hundred shirts and so on? Lots more than Lab production, it seems to me.
2) That interest has brought Kim a manufacturing partner that can provide the volume that is needed for product development and presumably for subsequent full-scale production.

That it has taken some time to get this far is no surprise and it will certainly take some time to come before we see Acme Parachutes put in a big order. However, the identification of the manufacturer might come a lot sooner and along with the pending results of Big Red testing we have lots to look forward to in the short term.