“Sounds to me like they are instituting some new processes and protocols as well as installing new equipment which will all likely require training for the workers…not to mention switching over to new worms…”
It’s a pair of scissors and a comb. How hard can it be?
Why do these have to be done immediately? Raise the silk and collect the cocoons, then reel the silk. Process when the equipment is ready.
Besides, KBLB already provided a different reason for the halt in production:
“This heat wave also hit the country while our third-party contractor has paused their operations as they await the delivery of more robust silkworms from our teams here at Kraig and Prodigy.”
Note they already had the first type of hybrid parent eggs delivered in January and have halted any attempt to grow either the parent lines or the hybrids.
Plan A: Failed. Plan B: Failed. Plan C: waiting until late in the year or next year to resume production.