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MPI Celebrates Major Milestone with 50th Anniversary
wax-room and ceramic core injection, assembly, and automation equipment has reached a major milestone in its history by celebrating its 50th anniversary. MPI, and its founder Bruce Phipps, are recognizable to virtually everyone who has been involved in the investment casting industry for any length of time. Bruce’s tireless commitment, leadership, and contributions to both MPI and the investment casting industry are why he was inducted into the Investment Casting Institute Hall of Honor in 2016. It is also why MPI has remained the industry leader for 50 years.
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and a single employee in 1972. Now MPI
over ninety employees
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including a team of world-class mechanical, process and automation engineers, machine builders, sales, and support staff, as well as a global customer support team. Its state-of-the- art, 47,500-square-foot manufacturing facility is home to a fully functioning technology center, showroom, training center and production facility.
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Through Bruce’s leadership, MPI has been relentless at innovating new products and services. It has introduced a multitude of wax-room innovations over the years including the first programmable wax flow system, state- of-the-art process controls known as Smart Controls™, a unique multi- zone high- throughput, wax-melting technology, and the flexible nozzle injection, to name a few. Today, MPI champions the automation movement in the wax room. While many believe automation to be in its infancy, MPI developed its first protype in the early 2000s and installed the first production automated pattern assembly system (APAS) in 2004. This early adoption of automation is why MPI is leaps and bounds ahead of its competition in terms of experience, innovation, and implementation.
To
date, MPI has secured seven wax-room automation patents. Currently, MPI has many fully
integrated automated injection and assembly cells installed for customers all over the world covering a wide range of applications in the automotive,
Photos above: Left: MPI’s founder Bruce Phipps. Right: MPI’s first facility in 1972.
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MPI INC.
www.mpi-systems.com
MPI, Worldwide Leader of Wax- Room & Ceramic Core Injection, Assembly, & Automation Equipment. MPI’s Technology Center has state- of-art equipment for Customer Process Validation, Pattern Production Services, Automation Demonstrations and
Training.
MPI’s Refurb Center performs complete Wax Injection Machine Refurbishments and Upgrades. MPI’s Field Service is a Global Operation with Diagnosis, Repairs, PM’s and Spare Parts. Regional Sales Offices in the USA, UK, Europe, China, Japan, Korea,
India, the Cost of Latin
America and Russia. MPI‘s focus is on Increasing the Quality and Lowering
Producing
Wax Patterns and Assemblies to achieve Higher Casting Yields.
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