In 1847, a baby was born into a poor family in the United States. Due to poverty, he had to leave his beloved classroom in the third grade of elementary school, but his curiosity about the unknown world grew even stronger. In a humble basement and with a bunch of bottles and jars, Thomas Edison still became a world-renowned inventor king with 1,093 patented inventions. Over a hundred years later, in 1986, in the town of Sherwood Content, Jamaica, a newborn baby cried with remarkable strength. This child, who was thought to have a great future, was quite mischievous. He ran at top speed every day just to avoid punishment. Today, at age 30, Usain Bolt has won the men’s 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay gold medals at the Rio Olympics, achieving an Olympic triple crown.
Everyone has their own unique DNA. No matter where they are born or what position they hold, it invisibly determines the direction of their fate. If Bolt is naturally fast and Edison worked hard through nurture, then Bill ... Gore and Vieve Gore, along with the brand they later created, took the innate nature of innovation and the spirit of diligence to the extreme.
In 1958, Americans Bill Gore and Vieve Gore founded W. L. Gore & Associates in their home basement. Their son, Bob ... Gore, also discovered ePTFE (expanded polytetrafluoroethylene) in this laboratory. Initially, Bob ... Gore was looking for a way to expand the coverage of PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene), but unexpectedly, he initiated a revolution in the outdoor apparel market — ePTFE (expanded polytetrafluoroethylene) has a microporous structure that contains 70% gas, successfully resolving the long-standing conflict between breathability and waterproofness in outdoor fabric materials.
Seven years after that, Bob ... Gore received his first commercial order. Subsequently, Gore began to grow step by step, especially with the globally renowned GORE-TEX.
GORE-TEX
From the soul-stirring strings of a guitar to the space cables in the vast universe, from delicate artificial blood vessels to the considerate GORE-TEX
40年能改变很多事，不变的是基因。戈尔公司对科技的不断创新以及其所带来的极致性能和优越体验，均源于自1958年公司成立之日起，就把“全球性技术创新”作为发展的基因，这令戈尔在发展道路上永燃热血、永远年轻、永远热泪盈眶。几十年匆匆而过的光阴，记载着戈尔的初心、奋斗与越发坚实的步履和足迹，也以更慷慨的认可、更昂扬的斗志、更巨大的能量为之加冕。因为创新与梦想，每一秒，都是开始。
戈尔40年，为梦想，燃前行!