Lee Green, MPI’s president
built his first fiberglass product in 1969, a 17 foot racing sailboat, in his
father’s fiberglass company, Plastrend Inc. Since that time Lee has
worked in all facets of the composites industry including building over 15
boats personally. Since the 70's Lee Green has worked with his father Andy
Green in the developing, testing, construction and installation of
hundreds of composite applications.
Mr. Lee Green oversaw the first
pultrusion machine built for his fathers company Composite Technology Inc. and
purchased another pultrusion machine from a European company. Through the use
of these two machines, lack of help from the machinery manufacturers and
hundreds of thousands of feet of production, Mr. Green developed his own user
friendly, ruggedly built and almost maintenance free pultrusion machinery for
commercial sale. Mr. Green knew the industry needed a machinery manufacturer
that knew how to make composite parts and understood the technology
completely.
Lee Greens first and second
machine still in service today.
General Motors came
to the Greens in the early 80's to develop equipment and process technology for
a pultrusion process called pull pressing. That development and work with
General Motors helped Mr. Green hone his skills in Machinery Manufacturing. In
1988 Mr. Green founded CPE, Composite Process Equipment Inc., launching a
career in machinery manufacturing and technology transfer for fiberglass and
composite pultrusion.
Developing a full line of Pultrusion equipment
from small 5,000 pound pullers to the then and still worlds largest pultrusion
machine at 100,000 pound pull in 1994. The two 100,000 pound machines are still
in production at Glasforms Inc., in Birmingham Alabama.
Mr. Green sold
the assets of CPE in 2000 and continued working for the company for a couple of
years. MPI was founded in 2000 to produce the machines built by the old CPE Mr. Green had sold. Now MPI has reassembled key members of CPE to manufacture a new
and improved line of pultrusion and panel machines. MPI’s principles have
designed, built and delivered over 230 pultrusion or composite process
machines, dies and technology worldwide since the early 80's.
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