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 and 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 President and CEO is Melvin C. Miller’s grandson, Mark Miller, who has headed up the Company since 1986. Mark is recognized internationally for his contributions to the development of equipment considered critical to the Cathodic Protection industry.

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.

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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 establish 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 is now headed up by his grandson Mark 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.