In 2007, the one brand spawned 2 more competing brands. Prior to 2007, we (Dodge-Regupol) were the only company manufacturing this form of recycled rubber acoustic underlayments. Ecore Acoustics, in particular, has been trying to clear up the confusion in the marketplace related to the QT brand of sound control underlayments. Today in 2014, we are still facing many challenges related to this change. In 2007, our company went from being Dodge-Regupol, Inc. “We are pleased to put this matter behind us and ensure (more…) Author admin Posted on AugAugCategories Featured, In the Field, Uncategorized Tags ecore, for consultants, news, press release Leave a comment on Press Release: Ecore & Pliteq Lawsuit Settled Not all rubber underlayments are created equal
Downey and Pliteq agreed to never engage in the activity of relabeling or representing any of Ecore’s products, including Ecore’s manufactured sound control underlayment, as their own products or implying that Ecore’s products were manufactured by them. Ecore’s lawsuit continued and, shortly before trial, Ecore and Pliteq settled. A federal judge issued an immediate order requiring Downey and Pliteq to stop the activity of identifying the Ecore manufactured product as being made by Pliteq, which Pliteq agreed to. Once Ecore learned of the relabeling activity, the company initiated a lawsuit against both Downey and Pliteq. “We learned from an employee of that warehouse that Pliteq was instructing the warehouse to take the Ecore labels off of our products and replace the Ecore labels with labels identifying the products as being manufactured by Pliteq.” Pliteq was simultaneously representing on the Pliteq Web site that the material was manufactured by it in Lancaster, Pa. “We discovered that Paul Downey and Pliteq were having third parties buy our products and having them shipped to a warehouse in Allentown, Pa.,” said Arthur Dodge, III, President and CEO of Ecore. The lawsuit arose as a result of Pliteq buying Ecore products through third parties and selling those products as its own manufactured product.
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