For decades the industry leaders have searched for an effective way to produce biomaterials and apply them in technical applications.  AMSilk Technology, pioneered at the Technische Universität München, has broken the production barrier, allowing the industrial production of spider silk and other biomaterials to be employed in ground-breaking new biopolymer materials.  

AMSilk delivers performance proteins as raw material and semi-finished or interstage products (spheres, membranes, films, nonwovens, fibers, etc.) to customers seeking new materials with the specifications for their next-generation products across several industries. 

Spider Silk Proteins

The toughness and ductility of spider silk has attracted human interest for thousands of years.  As with most biomaterials, spider silk’s properties have been tested and improved by Nature over time resulting in abilities which far exceed man-made materials.  Spider silk fibers consist almost entirely of large proteins with tensile strengths rivaling that of steel while having the elasticity of rubber on a weight to weight basis.  In combining strength with elasticity silks reveal a toughness two to three times that of synthetic fibers like Nylon or Kevlar. The boundless possibilities for spider silk fibers because they combine these two properties are enhanced by the additional attributes of being antimicrobial, hypoallergenic and completely biodegradable.  Spider silk causes no inflammation or allergic reaction.  And while spiders mainly employ silk as a linear thread, spider silk proteins can be assembled in all three dimensions to build distinct macroscopic structures like films, spheres and nonwovens, etc. 

Spider silk shows outstanding properties

• High tensile strength
• High ductility
• Variability
• Selective biodegradability

Many applications are desired

• "Strong as steel" combined with high ductility
• Unrivaled capacity to dissipate kinetic energy

AMSilk Materials

• Silkbeads
• Fibers
• Silkfilms
• Nonwovens