Thanks to khmarbaise for his/her answer in the comment to my question:
you can simply define -B for –batch-mode which will turn off using of
colors..
This fixed the issue, my output now looks like this (much nicer):
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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
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[INFO] Total time: 17.507 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-04-27T05:30:07-04:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 41M/100M
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