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 ha
ve designed, built and delivered over 230 pultrusion or
composite process machines, dies and technology worldwide
since th e early 80's.
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