Perhaps best known for its consumer products like GORE-TEX® fabric and ELIXIR® guitar strings, Gore is a leading manufacturer of thousands of advanced technology products for the electronics, industrial, fabrics and medical markets. Gore is headquartered in Newark, Delaware, and is one of only eight companies included in every selection of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" since the list began in 1984. The company employs approximately 7,500 associates at 45 facilities throughout the world.

Membrane Filtration & Separations

Gore pioneered the use of expanded PTFE membranes in filtration and other separation technologies. The company leverages its unique membrane technology to provide reliable, cost-effective solutions to filtration and processing challenges in a wide range of applications. From filter bags for industrial pollution control to sterile barriers for medical devices, and from leading-edge membrane electrode assemblies for fuel cells to household vacuum cleaner filters, Gore offers products that are recognized as "best in class." In many markets, Gore's products have set the standards for performance.

Filtration Products

• REMEDIA™ catalytic filter systems to destroy dioxins and furans from industrial combustion stationary sources
• GORE-TEX® membrane filter bags and cartridges for dust collector systems and emissions control
• GORE-TEX® membrane filter socks for industrial liquid filtration
• Pristyne® ULPA filter media for "clean room" environments
• Microcontamination control (re-circulation) filters for computer disk drives (found in over 90% of the disk drives worldwide)
• Microfiltration filter media for medical devices
• CleanStream® wet/dry and household vacuum filters
• GORE-TEX® Filter Media for high purity chemical and biopharmaceutical filtration
• GORE-TEX® Filter Media for fermentation feed air applications

Associates	Approx. 7,500
Headquarters	Newark, DE
Internet Address	www.gore.com