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LANCASTER, PA<\/strong> – Ecore International plans to invest $25.5 million to open a regional manufacturing facility in Ozark, Alabama where it will create 84 jobs. Ecore specializes in transforming reclaimed materials into high-performance flooring and surface products. The privately held company, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is the largest converter of reclaimed rubber in North America, and its largest raw material is scrap truck tires.<\/p>\n \u201cEcore is a great addition for Alabama\u2019s business community, and its decision to locate an advanced manufacturing and recycling facility in Dale County will have a major economic impact on the rural area,\u201d said Alabama Governor Kay Ivey. \u201cThis project in Ozark will bring good manufacturing jobs to the citizens there and spark new opportunities throughout the region.\u201d<\/p>\n As part of the project, Ecore is purchasing an existing building in Ozark, which it will equip to reclaim the rubber from used truck tires and use the rubber to manufacture flooring and surfacing products.<\/p>\n Ecore CEO Art Dodge said, the company is pleased to be partnering with the city of Ozark, Dale County and the State of Alabama to establish the world-class manufacturing and recycling facility.<\/p>\n \u201cSince its inception, Ecore has transformed over 2 billion pounds of rubber waste into surfaces that make people\u2019s lives better. All Ecore manufacturing facilities are certified \u2018Zero Waste,\u2019 amplifying the company\u2019s commitment to environmental stewardship,\u201d said Dodge.<\/p>\n \u201cEcore invests in more than its facilities \u2014 we invest in our people and in our communities because we believe that when our people and our communities prosper, we prosper,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n In 2021, the company upcycled over 100 million pounds of truck tires \u2014 equivalent to approximately 1 million truck tires destined for landfills or illegal dumps \u2014 into high-value manufactured products shipped nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LANCASTER, PA<\/strong> – Ecore International plans to invest $25.5 million to open a regional manufacturing facility in Ozark, Alabama where it will create 84 jobs. Ecore specializes in transforming reclaimed materials into high-performance flooring and surface products. The privately held company, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is the largest converter of reclaimed rubber in North America, and its largest raw material is scrap truck tires.<\/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\/8405"}],"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=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8413,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions\/8413"}],"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=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}