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If you’re ever up in Grand Rapids, Minnesota we’d love to invite you in for a tour of our corrugated plastics plant. You’d be amazed at the process it requires to produce all of our corrugated plastic products. It’s a… Read More

I’m sure at some point in time most everyone has seen one of our patented USPS Postal totes. They’re the white corrugated plastic things you see at the post office usually sitting on the counter holding a bunch of mail… Read More

On Tuesday, December 6, Rod Wood and Peter McDermott attended the USPS – Postal Supplier Council (PSC) Annual Conference at their headquarters in Washington DC. MDI is a member of the PSC which includes 100 of the more than 5,000… Read More

As I got to treat my dad to our first pro-football game (our 2 favorite teams Denver Bronco’s vs Minnesota Vikings at the Dome) it was a very special game and moment spent with my family. From the left… Brother… Read More

One of the coolest projects we do every year is put together the Annual Yearbook for the USPS.

This project includes several labeling stations, shrink-wrapping, labeling again, then prepping for shipping. The whole backside of our warehouse fills up with… Read More

Ed Goggleye and Brandy Griffith… ready for the Bronco-Viking football game!

- Brandy

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One of the activities the engagement team thought of doing was having the employees take part in a coloring contest. Many of the people have worked in our Hibbing plant for 5-15 years!!! Every day it is the same routine… Read More

Several months ago MDI was awarded 10 charity licenses for Salesforce.com, a very robust, enterprise level, web based CRM system.

Initially we were considering contracting a developer to create a simple database application that would allow us to keep… Read More

We recently had a great project come to MDI. We were asked to package root beer barrels into a glass mug, place cellophane around it, tie it, label it, and box it up.

This was a project for about… Read More

I had the opportunity to hear Randy Lewis, Walgreens Executive, share how Walgreens has taken a lead in employing people with disabilities. The video details how Walgreens is employing more and more workers with disabilities and getting great results.… Read More