Kraig Labs CEO: Spider Silk Production Scaling to Commercial Quantities

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories CEO Kim Thompson is featured in Authority Magazine's "Meet the Disruptors" series, an interview that covers the company's push to bring recombinant spider silk to commercial-scale production.

Thompson told the publication that spider silk "is a remarkable material that is among the strongest and toughest natural materials" and has "the potential to make significant impacts in textile markets." He also signaled that the company is working on materials beyond spider silk with "unusual properties."

The interview traced Thompson's entrepreneurial path, including a key moment when he studied Nexia Biotechnologies, then the leading spider silk team. Thompson said he recognized a flaw in their approach before it became public. "Two years later, they hit the wall I had predicted. They collapsed, and I bought the rights to use the gene sequences," he said. Those sequences became the foundation of Kraig Labs' technology platform.

Kraig Labs produces recombinant spider silk using genetically engineered silkworms. The company recently appeared on the cover of the March 2026 issue of National Geographic, which highlighted its work in scaling spider silk production.

The Authority Magazine feature positions Kraig Labs alongside other companies challenging conventional materials science. The company's shares trade on the OTCQB under the ticker KBLB.