In Michigan, Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. a developer of spider silk based fibers, announced it has been issued its long awaited Enterprise Registration Certificate required to begin its operations in Vietnam. This was a result of its five years of working with the Vietnamese government at both the central and provincial levels to obtain the ERC.
“These licenses to operate in a traditional silk producing region are the most substantial milestones for Kraig Labs commercial development since the creation of our first spider silk transgenics,” said Kraig Labs Founder and CEO, Kim Thompson. “Our teams in the U.S.A. and in Vietnam have been working closely with officials in Quang Nam province and with central government ministries to bring this long-standing vision to reality.”
The Company’s advanced silk production platform was designed specifically to fit within and utilize existing silk industry infrastructure. “Our work to obtain these approvals has been driven by our goal of producing recombinant spider silk on a large scale, which can only be achieved by harnessing the opportunities presented by existing large scale silk production infrastructure,” said Thompson.