Utah State opens facility to scale up commercialisation potential of synthetic spider silk.
The Utah State University has opened a Bioproducts Scale-Up Facility at the centre of its Innovation Campus to maximise the commercialisation potential of synthetic spider silk.
The 70,000 square feet facility will house production equipment that will enable the researchers at Utah State to produce large volumes of the spider silk protein, originally developed at the institution’s science technology and research faculty by professor Randy Lewis.
Spider silk has a variety of potential commercial purposes. The material is stronger than…
