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LANCASTER, PA<\/strong> – Ecore, a leading manufacturer of high-performance surfaces for commercial and athletic markets, recently partnered with CommonWealth Equity Partners, a private equity fund. CommonWealth brings a depth of ESG transactional and operational experience to Ecore\u2019s mission of \u201ctransforming reclaimed materials into performance surfaces that make people’s lives better.\u201d<\/p>\n The team is led by Ecore\u2019s Founder, President, and CEO Art Dodge, who is joined by other Co-Founders Robert Bernard, Former Chief Environmental Strategist for Microsoft and Michael Derosa, Former General Partner with Element Partners.<\/p>\n Having been owned and operated solely by members of the Dodge Family for 5 generations, Ecore is poised to continue its focus on customer excellence. \u201cThis partnership builds upon on a long family history of creating industry-leading products,\u201d said Dodge. \u201cThis new relationship with CommonWealth provides us with additional capital and expertise to accelerate our growth into new products and new markets. This is a very exciting time, as we move into our 150th year of business in 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n Founded in 2020, CommonWealth is a Pennsylvania-based private equity firm that makes investments in ESG and circular economy-focused companies. \u201cWe are excited to partner with Art and the entire Ecore leadership team,\u201d said Robert Bernard, partner and co-founder of CommonWealth Equity Partners. \u201cAt CommonWealth, we believe that companies like Ecore, who create superior products, invest in ESG and the circular economy, and have a long-standing history of innovation, can and will continue to outperform the market.\u201d<\/p>\n The capital infusion will enable Ecore to accelerate its current focus on transforming waste streams into high-value products. Michael Derosa, who has successfully led successful sustainability-based investments for more than 20-years, noted \u201cEcore has long been an innovative leader in profitably selling sustainable, circular products, and I am extremely pleased for CommonWealth to have been able to partner with Art Dodge to lead this recapitalization as the company focuses on its next wave of growth.\u201d<\/p>\n Ecore\u2019s customers include professional sports teams, sports and recreation facilities, fitness centers, hospitals, commercial interiors, hotels and lodging, transportation facilities, municipal and school playgrounds, and competitive equestrian facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LANCASTER, PA<\/strong> – Ecore, a leading manufacturer of high-performance surfaces for commercial and athletic markets, recently partnered with CommonWealth Equity Partners, a private equity fund. CommonWealth brings a depth of ESG transactional and operational experience to Ecore\u2019s mission of \u201ctransforming reclaimed materials into performance surfaces that make people’s lives better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6259,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions\/6259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}