ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("the Company" or "Kraig Labs"), announces today that it has confirmed that the material performance of its commercially produced recombinant spider silk matches the exceptional strength and toughness of the Company’s previous small batch performance testing. The results of this testing open the doors for Kraig Labs to aggressively move forward with commercial production of its proprietary recombinant spider silk.
Testing was completed last week at the Company’s R&D headquarters, pitting samples of the Company's commercially produced spider silk against samples of mundane silk in a head-to-head test. Using a high-precision tensile testing machine, multiple samples of each silk type were tested using high-frequency data sampling, monitoring force, and displacement. Yield strength, ultimate tensile strength, and elongation data were collected and analyzed, confirming the mechanical superiority of the Company's spider silk.
This testing confirmed that there has been no loss in strength or toughness associated with this significant growth in production scale. While these results were expected, by Kraig Labs and its key production advisor, verifying that what works in the lab also works in the field under commercial production conditions was an important milestone.
"The results of this testing confirm the performance of our production spider silk, unlocking a scalable system for commercial sustainable spider silk production," said Company COO, Jon Rice. "Having worked with these materials for some time, we are not at all surprised by these results. We are happy to have our expectations confirmed and the added confidence to continue to aggressively move forward with our spider silk production scale-up."
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About Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc.
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (www.KraigLabs.com), a reporting biotechnology company is the leading developer of genetically engineered spider silk-based fiber technologies.
The Company has achieved a series of scientific breakthroughs in the area of spider silk technology with implications for the global textile industry.
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Ben Hansel, Hansel Capital, LLC
(720) 288-8495
ir@KraigLabs.com
