The LYCRA Company is a proud ingredient brand with a decades-long history of dreaming big. We’re powered by a team of experts across fields — scientists, thinkers, market leaders — all motivated by a shared passion: to make life more comfortable.  

Our flagship innovation, LYCRA^® fiber, was invented by pioneering chemical scientist Dr. Joseph Shivers and his colleagues in the 1950s, introducing comfort and stretch to an apparel industry long dominated by structured, restrictive designs, such as rubberized women's girdles. 

In its 65+ years on the market, LYCRA^® fiber has transformed the garment industry, helping to fuel the rise of activewear and athleisure and making everything from swimwear to denim to intimates more comfortable. In the more recent past, we've brought our fibers to the personal care category, delivering superior comfort and fit to hygiene products for people at every age, stage, and size.

We revolutionized comfort decades ago, and we’re still doing it today — and we have no plans to slow down.