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W. L. Gore & Associates

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Table of Contents

  1. 43 relations: Bill Gore, Brian Carney (editorialist), Catalysis, Chemical engineering, Chemistry, Chief executive officer, Columbia Sportswear, Combustibility and flammability, Delaware, Diffusion, DuPont, Durable good, European Union, Federal Trade Commission, Fluoropolymer, Fortune (magazine), Friction, Gore-Tex, Isaac Getz, Malcolm Gladwell, Multinational corporation, Musical instrument, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Newark, Delaware, Open allocation, Patent, Perkin Medal, Polymer, Polytetrafluoroethylene, Privately held company, Reactivity (chemistry), Reinventing Organizations, Relative permittivity, Robert W. Gore, Roy J. Plunkett, Society of Chemical Industry, Strength of materials, String (music), The Tipping Point, Thermal conductance and resistance, Ultraviolet, University of Minnesota, W. L. Gore & Associates.

  2. 1958 establishments in Delaware
  3. Manufacturing companies based in Delaware
  4. Manufacturing companies established in 1958

Bill Gore

Wilbert Lee "Bill" Gore (January 25, 1912 – July 26, 1986) was an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman who co-founded W. L. Gore and Associates with his wife, Genevieve (Vieve).

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Brian Carney (editorialist)

Brian M. Carney is a senior executive at Rivada Networks.

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Catalysis

Catalysis is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst.

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Chemical engineering

Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Columbia Sportswear

The Columbia Sportswear Company is an American company that manufactures and distributes outerwear, sportswear, and footwear, as well as headgear, camping equipment, ski apparel, and outerwear accessories.

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Combustibility and flammability

A combustible material is a material that can burn (i.e., sustain a flame) in air under certain conditions.

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Delaware

Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.

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Diffusion

Diffusion is the net movement of anything (for example, atoms, ions, molecules, energy) generally from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.

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DuPont

DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.

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Durable good

In economics, a durable good or a hard good or consumer durable is a good that does not quickly wear out or, more specifically, one that yields utility over time rather than being completely consumed in one use.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.

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Fluoropolymer

A fluoropolymer is a fluorocarbon-based polymer with multiple carbon–fluorine bonds.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.

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Friction

Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.

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Gore-Tex

Gore-Tex is W. L. Gore & Associates's trade name for waterproof, breathable fabric membrane.

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Isaac Getz

Isaac Getz is an author, conference speaker, and currently holds the post of Professor at ESCP Business School.

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Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born 3 September 1963) is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker.

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Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation,with subtle but contrasting senses) is a corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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National Inventors Hall of Fame

The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology.

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Newark, Delaware

NewarkNot as in Newark, New Jersey. W. L. Gore & Associates and Newark, Delaware are Newar.

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Open allocation

Open allocation refers to a style of management in which employees are given a high degree of freedom in choosing what projects to work on, and how to allocate their time.

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Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.

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Perkin Medal

The Perkin Medal is an award given annually by the Society of Chemical Industry (American Section) to a scientist residing in America for an "innovation in applied chemistry resulting in outstanding commercial development." It is considered the highest honor given in the US chemical industry.

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Polymer

A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.

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Polytetrafluoroethylene

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene, and has numerous applications because it is chemically inert.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Reactivity (chemistry)

In chemistry, reactivity is the impulse for which a chemical substance undergoes a chemical reaction, either by itself or with other materials, with an overall release of energy.

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Reinventing Organizations

Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness is a book written by Frédéric Laloux and published in 2014.

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Relative permittivity

The relative permittivity (in older texts, dielectric constant) is the permittivity of a material expressed as a ratio with the electric permittivity of a vacuum.

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Robert W. Gore

Robert W. Gore (April 15, 1937 – September 17, 2020) was an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman.

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Roy J. Plunkett

Roy J. Plunkett (June 26, 1910 – May 12, 1994) was an American chemist.

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Society of Chemical Industry

The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) is a learned society set up in 1881 "to further the application of chemistry and related sciences for the public benefit".

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Strength of materials

The field of strength of materials (also called mechanics of materials) typically refers to various methods of calculating the stresses and strains in structural members, such as beams, columns, and shafts.

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String (music)

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration.

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The Tipping Point

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is the debut book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little, Brown in 2000.

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Thermal conductance and resistance

In heat transfer, thermal engineering, and thermodynamics, thermal conductance and thermal resistance are fundamental concepts that describe the ability of materials or systems to conduct heat and the opposition they offer to the heat current.

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Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota (formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), colloquially referred to as "The U", is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.

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W. L. Gore & Associates

W. W. L. Gore & Associates and W. L. Gore & Associates are 1958 establishments in Delaware, employee-owned companies of the United States, Manufacturing companies based in Delaware, Manufacturing companies established in 1958, multinational companies headquartered in the United States, musical instrument manufacturing companies of the United States and Newar.

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See also

1958 establishments in Delaware

Manufacturing companies based in Delaware

Manufacturing companies established in 1958

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._L._Gore_%26_Associates

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