MPI, based in southeastern Michigan, is a worldwide provider of both magnetic and non-magnetic material handling solutions. MPI leads the industry by continuously engineering inventive magnetic equipment and advancing customer education.

Founded in 1981, MPI was formed to advance development of permanent magnet technology used in industry. Along with the company's initial mission to engender research and development, the founders also focused on customer education, which would allow users to better select and maintain purchased equipment. These cornerstones still guide the company and its management team.

MPI's first goal was to improve the performance of permanent magnetic separators. Within five years, MPI was to implement dramatic changes in equipment design that are still in place today. As a result of MPI's engineering and development efforts, easy-to-clean manually operated permanent magnets and self-cleaning automatic permanent magnetic separators are common worldwide.As MPI has grown over three decades, the same focus on product development and improvement has remained, and has been expanded to include magnetic conveying, automation and material handling equipment systems as well as metal detection.

At MPI we live by five core values to help reinforce our corporate values, our culture and provide excellent service to our customers. Our core values are as follows:

• Excellence in the Ordinary – By this we mean that every job matters and is important to the overall success of MPI. We do ordinary things, extraordinarily well.
• Cultural Warrior – At MPI, we are driven by a relentless commitment that all employees achieve their definition of success. We challenge the status quo – Fear of Change does not get a vote at MPI!
• No Red Tape – At MPI, we believe in doing the right thing without delay. While respecting our processes we strive to be an easy company to do business with.
• PhD in Customer Education – We believe an educated customer is an MPI customer. Our approach is to Be Ready to educate our customers at any time, to Listen to allow our customers to establish their knowledge – we don’t assume, and lastly to Empower our customers by giving them knowledge
• We Walk the T.A.L.K. - We don’t just say it – we do it! To us T.A.L.K. means we are a Team, we are Accountable, we are Loyal, and we are Knowledgeable.