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
Forty years can change many things, but what remains unchanged is the DNA.W. L. Gore & Associates' continuous innovation in technology and the ultimate performance and superior experience it delivers all stem from the company's founding in 1958, when it established "global technological innovation" as its core development principle. This has kept Gore passionate, youthful, and emotionally driven on its path of growth.The decades that have flown by record the origins, struggles, and increasingly solid steps of Gore, while also crowning it with more generous recognition, greater fighting spirit, and immense energy.Because of innovation and dreams, every second is a new beginning.
For 40 years, Gore has been fueling forward for the dream!