M. C. Miller Co., Inc.

A Tradition of Excellence

The M. C. Miller Company has been serving the needs of the Cathodic Protection industry for over 60 years and we continue to expand our impact by developing new, needs-based, products and services, based on our commitment to in-house research and development.

The Company, which was founded by the late Melvin C. Miller in 1945, manufactures equipment and software for use by corrosion professionals all over the world. We currently have customers in Australia, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, South America, Canada as well as the United States. The Company’s current president is Robert Park, Ph.D., formerly Director of Research and an eight year veteran of the company. Joe Mekus is Vice President of the company and Joe is a 12 year veteran of the company specializing in equipment testing, calibration, quality control and PCB assembly.

In addition to supplying hardware items, such as multi-meters, current-interrupters, data-loggers and soil resistivity kits, the M. C. Miller Company is also the author and publisher of the innovative client/server database management system known as ProActive. ProActive is the most technically advanced Cathodic Protection, Pipeline Integrity and Risk Assessment software package currently on the market. This time- and money-saving software package simplifies the often laborious documentation associated with Cathodic Protection systems.

Mark Miller, President, 1986 to June 2009

Melvin C. Miller II, Mark Miller to his friends and colleagues, of Vero Beach, Florida, passed away suddenly on June 21, 2009 at the age of 53.

Mark was born in Farmington, Maine on August 21, 1955 and was the beloved grandson of the late Melvin C. Miller, a pioneer in the corrosion control industry and founder of the M. C. Miller Company.

Mark received a B.S. degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida (Gainesville) in 1979, with a specialty in corrosion engineering, and in 1981 earned a master’s degree in accounting and business management from the University of South Florida (Tampa).

Mark began his career at the M. C. Miller Company under his grandfather’s tutelage as a 15 year old boy doing various jobs, such as sweeping out the machine shop, packing products for shipment and some assembly work. He continued to work at the company during his student days, receiving exposure to all aspects of the business. After completing his formal education, Mark worked full-time at M. C. Miller in the areas of electrical engineering design and business administration. In 1986, Mark succeeded his grandfather as president of the M. C. Miller Company and successfully managed the company until his untimely passing. Mark grew the company through his commitment to in-house research and development. New product development will be his enduring legacy.

Mark joined both NACE and ASTM in 1978 and was extremely active in both organizations through participation on a variety of technical committees. He exhibited at NACE’s annual corrosion conference for 31 straight years on behalf of the M. C. Miller Company.

A Tribute to Our Founder, the Late Melvin C. Miller

Melvin C. Miller began his career in 1914, with the Swett Electric Light Company in Medina, New York. In 1921, he joined Northern States Power Company and six years later moved to Texas Power and Light Company, where he became chief distribution engineer.

In 1936, he joined the Consulting Engineering Division of Ebasco Services Inc., in New York City, as an electrical engineer, and remained associated with Ebasco for some 25 years both as an employee and later as a consultant while developing his own business.

As an Ebasco engineer, Melvin C. Miller first became interested in the field of Cathodic Protection while on assignment with a gas distribution company around 1940. At that time, the application of Cathodic Protection for corrosion control of underground pipelines was only in its infancy and Melvin became one of the true pioneers in this field. Based on his early exposure to the infant field, he established a corrosion engineering group at Ebasco and over the years, through his pioneering efforts, was instrumental in the development of corrosion engineering activities in the United States, particularly in the field of Cathodic Protection.

As a practicing field engineer working in the Cathodic Protection field, Melvin C. Miller became aware of an acute need for precision field-use instruments to detect and record the extent of external corrosion on underground pipelines and, in the early fifties, he began working, in his garage, on the design and construction of instruments that would be practical to take to the field and that would yield accurate current and voltage data. It didn’t take long for his meters to attract the attention of his colleagues and it wasn’t long before his meters were in high demand, so much so, that M. C. Miller established his own manufacturing company to satisfy the demand for his instruments. The company founded by Melvin C. Miller was headed up by his grandson, Melvin C. Miller II (Mark Miller), for 23 years until Mark's passing in June, 2009. The legacy established by Melvin and his grandson is continued today by the employees of the M. C. Miller Company and today’s generation of the company’s meters and related test equipment is in service all around the world.

Throughout his career, going back to the early forties all the way up to his passing in 1979, Melvin C. Miller was an active member of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers and he was highly regarded by the Association for his pioneering contribution to the development of field-use test equipment as well as for his devotion to educating practicing corrosion engineers. In 1978, he was presented, by NACE, with the prestigious Frank Newman Speller Award, for “Outstanding Contributions to Corrosion Engineering”.

Additionally, in the education vane, in 1970, M. C. Miller, received the Colonel George C. Cox Outstanding Award from the University of West Virginia for his longstanding contributions (going back to its foundations in the mid-fifties) of the Appalachian Underground Corrosion Short Course. As a lecturer for this short course and as a seminar presenter all over both North and South America, Melvin C. Miller, over his extensive career, passed on his knowledge and experience to literally thousands of corrosion engineers.