Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (KBLB.OB) Aims to Turn Spider Silk into a Commercially Available ‘Super Fiber’
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. is a biotechnology company using state-of-the-art genetic techniques to develop transgenic silkworms capable of producing spider silk. The company believes that because of spider silk's characteristics, it has the potential to become a 'super-fiber' with many commercial applications. Spider silk is among the strongest fibers produced in nature. The silk has several properties that are unmatched by man-made fibers. One property is spider silk's capacity to absorb energy and to dissipate this energy in a controlled manner. This property makes spider silk especially attractive for applications where energy absorption is a key design factor such as…