Gore’s 3 New Gore-Tex Pro Fabrics
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Gore-Tex has been the leader in waterproof fabrics for decades, and today, they’re announcing a complete overhaul of their flagship fabric, Gore-Tex Pro. So this week we went to Banff, Alberta, and sat down with the category manager of Gore’s “Pro” line, Mark McKinnie, for an in-depth discussion about the new fabrics. We talk about what makes the new Gore Pro unique; the 3 different versions of Gore Pro; Gore’s intensive validation and field-testing processes; how the new ‘Pro’ fits into Gore’s sustainability goals; and much more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- The 3 new versions of Gore-Tex Pro (4:35)
- Fabric performance (5:30)
- New (and old) membrane structures (11:15)
- Stretch! (15:40)
- Lab validation & real-world tests (19:19)
- Solution-dyed vs jet-dyed fibers, & why they matter (34:08)
- Sustainability & the new Gore-Tex Pro (36:23)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. I'm Sam Shaheen and you're listening to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:13.7 | Today, Gortex announced that they're updating their flagship high-performance technology, Gortex Pro. |
| 0:20.3 | I got to sit down with GOR's Mark McKinney, |
| 0:22.5 | the category manager of the GORTex Pro collection, and dive deep into this new product, or rather |
| 0:28.1 | new product line. We discuss what makes the new GOR Pro unique, GOR's intensive validation |
| 0:34.3 | and field testing processes, how Gore Pro fits into Gore sustainability |
| 0:38.9 | goals, and much more. |
| 0:41.1 | Let's jump right in. |
| 0:43.5 | Today we're in Banff, Alberta, with Gore Texas, Mark McKinney. |
| 0:47.6 | How are you doing today, Mark? |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah, good. |
| 0:49.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:50.5 | So to start, can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you ended up at your current role in Gore? |
| 0:55.7 | I've been at Gore for 19 years. |
| 0:58.4 | I had an interesting situation where the recruiter was actually looking for somebody to work for Gore, other part of the company, other part of the country. |
| 1:07.9 | When he described the job, I didn't even recognize the company. And so he gave |
| 1:13.1 | us a 10-minute spiel on why I should move my family. My wife was pregnant at the time. Why should |
| 1:18.0 | we move to the side of the country? It was coming up for Christmas. And at the end of it, he said, |
| 1:23.4 | the company's gore. They make Gorex. You're an ice climber. You must know them. And the penny dropped. And I'm like, set up the interview. And yeah, in six weeks, we moved, we relocated. We sold her house. My wife had a baby. We had Christmas. And I joined Gore. And that was 19 years ago. It was for the aerospace segment and yet I've had a couple of different commitments before |
| 1:49.0 | the current one looking after Gortex Pro. |
| 1:52.0 | GORPRO has been sort of the flagship product of the Gortex line for a little while now |
| 1:59.0 | in terms of peak performance. Can you explain a bit |
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