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Recognition from AGCO I hope that this message finds you well. It is my privilege and honor to inform you that AGCO has recognized Mechanical Devices Company with the inaugural 2020 TRAIT Award. This recognition is the result of Mechanical Devices Company’s excellent performance in community outreach as well as for their diversity & inclusion […]

Finding a niche and investing in efficiency is key to success for this contract shop. Frank Earl Sperry, a mechanical engineer from the University of Illinois, founded Mechanical Devices Company in 1914 in Aurora, Illinois. Today, in Bloomington, Illinois, Mr. Sperry’s descendants operate the company successfully in a modern manufacturing facility and logistics building totaling […]

Mechanical Devices turns 100, prepares for transition Pat Shaver, The Pantagraph November 9, 2014 BLOOMINGTON – Families fight, argue and forgive. The siblings who run Mechanical Devices Company in Bloomington and their children admit they fight, but agree that at the dinner table, the fighting ends. The family business turns 100 this year and will […]

Not many family owned businesses that were around 100 years ago are still in business today, but a Bloomington manufacturer is still going strong – and is still family owned and operated. Read the article Eric Stock from WJBC wrote on Mechanical Devices.