Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has opened a subsidiary in Vietnam called Prodigy Textiles.

This will be Kraig’s spider silk production arm.

Vietnam has been the focus of the company’s efforts to launch commercial scale production of recombinant spider silk, due to the country’s existing silk production infrastructure. Kraig estimates that it can produce its recombinant spider silk at prices similar to ordinary silk, giving the company a tremendous competitive advantage.

Kraig Biocraft, based in the US, is a developer of spider silk based fibers and focused on the commercialization of new textiles and high performance fibers including spider silk. As the leading developer of genetically engineered spider silk based fiber technologies, Kraig has been able to achieve a series of scientific breakthroughs in the area of spider silk technology.

The company has produced the first recombinant spider silk cocoons from the new line of hybrid transgenic silkworms recently created at its production and research facility. This new hybrid line was created by combining one of the company’s best performing recombinant spider silk lines with a commercial strain, resulting in the largest cocoons in the company’s history.

The first generation cocoons from this hybrid cross have exceeded the company’s expectations, with some cocoons nearly twice as large as the original spider silk line cocoons.