W.L. Gore & Associates

W.L. Gore & Associates is a privately held U.S. corporation founded on January 1, 1958 and headquartered in Newark, Delaware. The company primarily utilizes fluoropolymers (Gore has a unique polymerized material, polytetrafluoroethylene) as the basis for the development of a wide variety of products in a variety of textile, electronic, industrial, medical, and aerospace fields, including products such as guitar strings, space cables, artificial blood vessels, and GORE-TEX fabrics.