WILCOR Began in 1975 when John D. Reamer, decided he had seen the future. After woking at General Electric for seventeen years with a laminate product called "Textolite", he came across a new surfacing material called CORIAN. Having watched laminate replace linoleum many years before, he believed that CORIAN was going to be the thing that replaced laminate someday. He bravely left General Electric at the tender age of 50 with two small children, and started WILCOR.

CORIAN was by no means a household word at that time and WILCOR spent most of it's resources serving the commercial market. Many large custom millwork houses were seeing this new material on architectural specifications but had no frame of reference for it. Mr. Reamer and WILCOR were there to help.

Along the way, Mr. Reamer, a tinkerer at heart, learned that this material could do things that were completely different from the laminate he had so much experience with. He quickly devised the "seamless" appearance that we are so used to today in solid surface by using resin epoxy as a joint compound. He also discovered that CORIAN could be heated and bent, or "thermoformed". He is recognized by DuPont as a pioneer in these disciplines and was only the third person to be inducted into the ISSFA Hall of Fame.

Now in the hands of the second generation, John's son, Bradford, is the president of WILCOR. Since 1995, when Brad bought WILCOR, WILCOR has seen unprecedented growth. WILCOR also became the first company in the industry to receive the prestigious ISO 9001 Quality Certification and is recognized as the first company in the world to be certified under the ISO 9001:2000 standard. Brad is also a founder of the International Solid Surface Fabricators Association.

WILCOR is currently quartered in Wood Dale, Illinois. Our facility is state of the art, utilizing a digital environment and nearly paperless procedure to make beautiful Solid Surface creations. Mr. Reamer would be proud.