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Founded by Bill Gore in 1957 with the introduction of Multi-tet insulated wire.
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. was founded in 1958 by Wilbert L. "Bill" Gore and his wife, Genevieve Gore, in Newark, Delaware. Bill Gore was a DuPont research chemist working in fluropolymers, and based on a suggestion by his son, Robert W. "Bob" Gore, he developed and patended a process for insulating wires with Teflon (DuPont's trade name for PTFE). A decade later, Bob invented Gore-Tex, an expanded form of PTFE, and the company today makes a wide range of products in the medical, industrial, electrical and fabrics fields all based on his core PTFE membrane technology invention.