• August 6, 2018 News
    KARE 11 Features MDI and University of St. Thomas Study

      KARE 11 recently featured MDI regarding a University of St. Thomas study discussing the hiring bias for people with disabilities. View video.    

  • August 3, 2018 News
    Twin Cities Business Features MDI & St. Thomas Study Identifying Hiring Bias Against Individuals with Disabilities

      A new study released by University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business and local nonprofit manufacturing company MDI confirms what most of us probably suspect: individuals with disabilities face implicit bias when it comes to trying to enter the workforce. ...

  • July 27, 2018 News
    WDIO Channel 10 Duluth Features MDI

      WDIO/WIRT-TV Channel 10 Duluth attended MDI’s Open House on July 26, 2018.  The TV station featured MDI for adding manufacturing jobs to the Iron Range in Hibbing, Minnesota. View story here.  

  • July 24, 2018 News
    MDI adds 160 jobs at locations across Minnesota

        BY KATIE JOHNSON ON JUL 24 2018 – 2:12PM MDI has begun filling 160 positions across all its locations (Grand Rapids, Cohasset, Hibbing, and Minneapolis) due to a surge in postal service orders coupled with a steady increase in commercial ...

  • July 19, 2018 News
    Special Olympics Athletes Take Team-Building Skills from the Field to the Workplace

      Mike Madden is a goal-driven employee and gold-medal athlete. He knows the importance of staying focused. Being productive at work and scoring during Special Olympics competitions give him similar feelings of achievement. “It feels like you pretty much went out and ...

  • July 13, 2018 News
    A Purposeful Life

      Stroke Survivor Finds Purpose, Strength in a Manufacturing Career In March 2009, David Johnson suffered a deep stroke that damaged a large area of the right side of his brain, which affected movement on the left side of his ...

  • July 10, 2018 News
    Hibbing Facility to Host an Open House

      Tour our new facility & see how the products directly impact the lives of people with disabilities. For over 50 years, non-profit MDI has created self-sufficiency by providing meaningful employment in an inclusive environment with nearly half of the employees ...

  • June 28, 2018 News
    TRIO GIVES A HELPING HAND

      MDI Operations Manager Andy Tracy (center) volunteered alongside MDI employees Korey Thiel (left) and Dylan Johnson (right) Monday at Bennett Park. The trio was helping with the Minnesota Timberwolves FastBreak Foundation’s program “Our Courts. Our Future,” presented by U.S. Bank to update the ...

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    June 25, 2018 News
    In a tight labor market, Minnesota employers look to an under-utilized labor pool: workers with disabilities

      On the main floor of the Minneapolis-based Minnesota Diversified Industries (MDI), Karen Howson is busy arranging piles of flat plastic sheets and transferring them to a nearby production line. IN JULY, KAREN HOWSON WILL CELEBRATE HER SECOND ANNIVERSARY AS A FULL-TIME ...

  • June 12, 2018 News
    In major shift, state expands work opportunities for young people with disabilities

      The below article was published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 9, 2018. For full article details, including graphs and pictures, click here. In major shift, state expands work opportunities for young people with disabilities Minnesota’s recent transformation to the way it approaches ...