Discuss your branch’s dedication to safety. The Canton office prides itself on safety. Some initiatives we have started at the office to assist with the safety culture are as follows: • We have a form on the bulletin board that lists the entire Canton roster. Names of those who have completed their meaningful safety observations […]
Stuart Aldridge, former Branch Manager of MPW’s AK Steel Middletown (Ohio) Works location, retired at the end of May. Aldridge worked for AK Steel for approximately 30 years before retiring. Aldridge’s subsequent 12-year stint with MPW gave him more than 40 years of working at the Middletown site. “It’s truly remarkable that Stu came to […]
By Jimmy Peck, General Manager, MPW Industrial Services This industry is more than a commodity to the WJTA. This is one of the most important lessons I learned last year as I completed my first year on the WJTA Board of Directors. It’s one of the many concepts that mirror MPW’s culture. I am enthusiastic […]
Substantial growth normally evokes imagery of new customers crowded around a business’ front door. This was not the case for ICG’s Northeast District in 2018. Although the district managed an impressive 31-percent year-over-year increase in revenue, the growth mostly came from established customers, according to Northeast District Manager Mike Nicholson. For its efforts, the District […]
Mike Conkle, former Branch Manager of MPW’s Cheshire, Ohio location, retired at the end of February. Midwest District Manager Steve Runyon said that during Conkle’s nine-year MPW career, the Cheshire branch nearly tripled its revenue while adding more than 100 people to its workforce. Conkle also helped MPW gain business at nearby manufacturing plants, including […]
Industrial Cleaning Division Discuss your branch’s dedication to safety. Indianapolis emphasizes team members’ safety every day, with frequent Safety Coin audits, daily Toolbox Talks and management accountability from the Branch Manager on down. We have team stand-downs for anything that looks amiss and frequently review our safety with customers through the Job Performance Evaluation (JPE) […]
The black liquor recovery boiler is a vital economic component of the pulping process, used primarily in pulp and paper applications to reclaim pulping chemicals. Within the pulping industry, maintenance of these boilers is considered especially important, as explosions, failures and incidents caused by fouling build-up in recovery boilers have led to heightened safety risks […]
AK Steel – Mansfield (Ohio) Works. Industrial Cleaning Group Discuss your branch’s dedication to safety. We always hold a toolbox meeting before each work day. We do walkdowns before every job, allowing us to recognize any hazards. Here at AK Steel, we go above and beyond when it comes to safety. Discuss any recent MPW success stories involving your […]
In November, MPW Environmental Services, Inc., received three Zero Injury Safety Awards (ZISAs) from the National Maintenance Agreements Policy Committee, Inc. (NMAPC), for 2017. The awards are for 280,924 zero-injury man-hours at FirstEnergy’s Bruce Mansfield Plant in Shippingport, Pa.; 123,332 zero-injury man-hours at FirstEnergy’s W. H. Sammis Plant in Stratton, Ohio; and 50,641 zero-injury man-hours […]
MPW withstanding volatile labor market by investing in training By Jimmy Peck, ICG General Manager and Matthew Dawson, Director of Training & Development The Great Recession of 2008 marked a major turning point in the history of the U.S. labor market. Though the aftermath of a global financial crisis caused unemployment to rise substantially (as high […]