Replies to post #102217 on Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[Lebbe1]

Hello Promaster,

The article I just posted indicates Vietnam wants more internal production and less import of raw fabrics.

If they can improve the quality (and capacity), more domestic silk will be needed.

Sounds like a great incentive to 'replace the Vietnam Silk with Monstersilk' (As jon once said in an interview) and then increase capacity in Vietnam....

[bananarama]

Great post, promaster. I see what you are saying. However, this line sums up my concern:

"but others might see it as an infringement on an already good thing, i.e. an economic and environmental threat."

This is the real problem, too many hands to grease. KBLB would be a threat to some folks, so they have to be paid off somehow. This is probably why this is taking so long.

[dadofduck]

Hello promaster, you are correct in saying that the textile industry in Vietnam is large and profitable and I am sure the government here would like to think long and hard about upsetting that applecart. However with KBLB we are not talking about disrupting the textile industry in Vietnam. We are talking about disrupting the SILK industry at this point in time, an industry that has had it's troubles in the recent past and has barely been edging it's way towards profitability. I see a big difference between one and the other.

To start off with the only industries I see Kraig 'disrupting' in Vietnam are obviously the silk industry; could this truly be seen as a bad thing? To have Vietnam catapulted to being the country that produces the best silk in the world in one fell swoop. I also see them disrupting the technical textile industry worldwide but fortunately this market does not even seem to exist in VIetnam so there should be no apprehension there.

I don't think it is hubris or arrogance to believe that introducing KBLB's silk would be an automatic positive step for Vietnam, it is a shoe-in, educated confidence I would say.

I don't have a come-back for the Vietnamese believing that it could be an environmental threat, they could well believe it is but with a small amount of DD (or a minimal amount of knowledge of the domesticated silkworm) anybody would see that the point is moot.

GLTY