Spider silk on track for “large-scale” production
21/03/2014
Kraig makes a genetically engineered spider silk fibre called Monster Silk. It first ran a pilot production programme, which finished in late 2013. It said in a new announcement in March 2014 that it wanted now to move to “commercial-scale” production of the fibre.
“This important programme is working and warrants that we commit additional resources to our scale-up of Monster Silk production,” said founder and chief executive, Kim Thompson.
The company did not give precise figures, but said production of Monster Silk would be in tonnes.
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