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Internal Promotions Part 3: Rising in Water

November 8, 2018

Between July 2017 and June 2018, MPW employees accepted 309 promotions, which is about 10 percent of the company’s total number of employees. In this three-part series, The Leader will publish the stories of MPW employees who have made strides professionally and examine how and why MPW continues to invest in its people. Click here to […]

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Chesterfield team responds to customer’s emergency

November 8, 2018

It was 11 p.m. on a Saturday night in late September when Valerie Lassing’s phone rang. Upon answering the call, Lassing, Operations Manager for MPW’s Chesterfield (Michigan) Container location, was asked by a customer contact to assemble a team to clean 24 500-gallon totes the next day. Unfortunately for Lassing, no MPW workers were scheduled […]

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Featured Branch: Port Arthur Service Center

October 5, 2018

Port Arthur Service Center. Port Arthur, Texas. Industrial Water Division. Discuss your branch’s dedication to safety. One of our daily reminders during our shift change meetings always includes the phrase “safety, quality, production.” Our belief is if we don’t do our job safely, no amount of quality or production can make up for an injured co-worker. […]

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Mini Excavator improves safety, increases production time at steel mill

June 13, 2018

View Full Case Study Problem For more than 20 years, workers at an integrated steel operation located in the Midwest had been breaking slag deposits with jackhammers and 20K water blasters to remove the deposits from its roll mill. But after a worker was injured by falling slag, the plant and MPW sought a safer, […]

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Automated 2-D rotating wash head delivers safer stack clean, $24 million in boosted production

April 19, 2018

View Full Case Study The towering smoke stacks affiliated with industrial settings such as steel mills actually serve an environmental purpose. Within these stacks, electrostatic smoke precipitators (ESPs) force smoke and gas past two electrical terminals — one with a negative voltage and the other with metal plates charged to a positive voltage. Since unlike […]

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Attendees get the message during IT exercise

April 4, 2018

MPW’s IT Department held an after-work event on March 15 for the purposes of teambuilding and to demonstrate its technical skill. Titled Hackathon, the exercise involved working with group text messaging. Software Development Manager Dean Miller, who organized the event, said that as email usage becomes less prevalent, texting becomes more important for business communications. […]

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Hands-free industrial vacuum robots lead to safer, more efficient cleaning projects

March 28, 2018

View Full White Paper In the industrial sector, the cleaning and inspection of critical equipment plays a significant role in any maintenance program. While plant management generally understands the importance of maintaining a regular cleaning schedule, unfortunately the process can be a burden to operations. Confined spaces or hazardous environments can be difficult or dangerous […]

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MPW wins People’s Choice Award for Safety Innovation

March 14, 2018

MPW won the People’s Choice Award and finished second overall for the Safety Innovation Award at the 2018 Ohio Safety Congress & Expo, hosted by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. MPW Director of Engineering & Manufacturing Justin Pierce managed the project. “We’re proud that the attendees selected […]

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MPW innovation tackles mountain of contaminated storage units

August 21, 2017

View Full Case Study Problem When an inspection revealed organic material on 80,000 wooden product-storage components in multiple warehouses, a Virginia-based  manufacturing company was left with two options: destroy the storage units and purchase new ones, or find a vendor with the capability of efficiently removing the organic material. The fouling had the potential to […]

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MPW delivers safety and efficiency upgrades through automated technology

August 21, 2017

View Full Case Study Problem Seeking to ensure both high-quality, consistent industrial cleaning and the best available options in safety and efficiency, an Ohio chemical manufacturing facility requested bids from industrial cleaning contractors specializing in automated tooling. The plant selected MPW Industrial Services from a multitude of options, based on MPW’s history of results and […]

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