AMSilk advances 'Spidersilk' process

Planegg, Germany - German technology company AMSilk has achieved a large-scale production validation after a technical test campaign for the production of recombinant spider silk proteins.

AMSilk, based in Planegg, develops processes in house and outsources manufacturing with a custom manufacturer for industrial-scale production.

The end product, called Spidersilk, can now be manufactured at any available scale in the industry, according to the company. This, it said, is a critical achievement in enabling the production of Spidersilk from the kilogram to the metric ton scale.

“We have clearly demonstrated that Spidersilk can be manufactured with a large-scale and economical, environmentally friendly process,” says Axel Leimer, CEO of AMSilk.

“With this we have laid the foundation for many technical products and high performance fibers made from our recombinant spider silk proteins.”