Almost two decades later in 1976, the company debuted its waterproof Gore-Tex apparel, which used PTFE, a type of forever chemical that repels water. In 2014, Gore announced that it would cut PFAS ...

Martin Pitt looks at the accidental discovery of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), a versatile non-stick coating known as ...

Bill and Vieve Gore started the company in 1958 in their basement in Newark, Delaware, after discovering a potential use for polytetraflouroethylene, or PTFE, that had been developed by Roy ...

Gore was literally stretching polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE or more commonly known as Teflon) by hand, when he accidentally created a revolutionary new material—and, incidentally, some serious ...