Trademark. a brand of synthetic flexible, microporous material, used as a leather substitute for shoes, handbags, belts, luggage, etc.

What happened to corfam?

DuPont ended making Corfam in 1971, leaving it with only seven years of production. That year, the process for making Corfam was sold to a company in Warsaw, Poland.

Who invented corfam?

Corfam was the first poromeric imitation leather, invented by Lee Hollowell, and introduced by DuPont in 1963 at the Chicago Shoe Show. Corfam was the centerpiece of the DuPont pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair in New York City.