What are MPI approved products?

Index by MPI Number – List Updated June 1st, 2022

MPI# Category Name
140 X-Green™ Latex, Interior, High Performance Architectural, (MPI Gloss Level 4)
141 Latex, Interior, High Performance Architectural, Semi-Gloss (MPI Gloss Level 5)
141 X-Green™ Latex, Interior, High Performance Architectural, Semi-Gloss (MPI Gloss Level 5)

What are MPI standards?

The Master Painters Institute (MPI) creates standards for paint application and quality. These standards ensure excellence through painting inspection, performance-based standards and lab testing.

What is an MPI rating for paint?

MPI is an organization that sets architectural standards and quality–assurance programs in the painting and coating application industries in North America.

What MPI 141?

A high performance architectural latex coating, Gloss Level 5 – Semi-Gloss. Designed to provide a significantly higher level of performance than conventional latex paints in the areas of scrub resistance, burnish resistance, and ease of stain removal.

What is MPI 10?

A white or colored, flat, water based paint intended for use on new and previously painted exterior wall surfaces, including stucco, concrete, or primed wood. This product is not intended for application to un-primed wood surfaces.

What MPI 79?

MPI # 79. A solvent based, alkyd type, anti-corrosive primer for ferrous metals in industrial or light marine exposures. This coating is primarily used for field application on new and repainting work.

What is MPI gloss level?

Gloss and Sheen (and drywall finishing levels required )

Gloss at 60 degrees
Gloss Level 1 a traditional matte finish – flat maximum 5 units
Gloss Level 2 a high side sheen flat – a ‘velvet-like’ finish maximum 10 units
Gloss Level 3 a traditional ‘eggshell-like’ finish 10-25 units
Gloss Level 4 a ‘satin-like’finish 20-35 units

What MPI 145?

MPI # 145 Latex, Interior, Institutional Low Odor/VOC, ( MPI Gloss Level 3) next. A white or colored latex paint with low odor characteristics and a VOC of less than 10 grams per liter.

What is an MPI account?

What Is An MPI (Maximum Premium Indexing) Account? An MPI Secure Compound Interest Account is essentially a rebrand of indexed universal life (IUL) insurance. IULs are complex insurance products that combine life insurance with some type of investment product, guarantees, costs, and rules.