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As the first company to create outdoor furniture from recycled plastics, POLYWOOD is a true innovator at heart. In 1990, as government-mandated recycling programs gained popularity in the US, two high school friends identified that high-density polyethylene( HDPE) could be used to make outdoor furniture due to its extreme durability and weather resistance. Today, POLYWOOD has grown into a leading provider of outdoor furniture in the US and continues to champion a circular, 99-percent waste-free process.
“ POLYWOOD is a classic American innovation startup story,” opens COO Brady Maller.“ Doug Rassi founded POLYWOOD in 1990 with an industry-disrupting product that would revolutionize outdoor living forever. True to entrepreneurship, we stayed on the cutting edge of technology and were early adopters of e-commerce during its emergence in the 2000s. We put our energies into building a vertically integrated JIT manufacturing platform that could produce and deliver many thousands of options in real time without compromising exactly what our customers wanted.
“ Fast forward to today, we have a proprietary technology operating system that seamlessly ties all of this together,” he adds.“ We go from order in to out the door in a few days, and all the coordination is driven with a scalable system allowing us to do what we love to do; putting our energy into making worry-free products that will be enjoyed for years to come.”
In terms of ownership, POLYWOOD has recently changed hands from Mayfair Capital Partners to Arsenal Capital Partners( Arsenal) and Baypine.“ With deep expertise in manufacturing, Arsenal is a very collaborative partner, pushing the boundaries of strategy 64