2021

10 Mar 2021

CEO Blog: Opportunity Must Knock at Every Door

The increase in awareness of International Women’s Day this week was welcome, as was the recognition and celebration of women’s achievements in every facet of our lives internationally, nationally and locally. Inspiring for us all but hopefully most of all for the next generation and those female students currently at school, college, university, in apprenticeships or starting their careers.

10 Mar 2021

MPA Provides Further Resources to Support Industry Engagement With Vision Zero

An Employee Guide to Vision Zero, a pocket card, and three new Vision Zero PowerPoint presentations have been added to the MPA toolkit of resources available to help members promote Vision Zero within their organisations. Vision Zero was launched at the MPA & British Precast Health and Safety Leadership Conference in November 2020. The success of Vision Zero will be dependent on individuals within the mineral products industry understanding what Vision Zero is, why it is important and their role in delivering it.

03 Mar 2021

MPA Welcomes Aggregates Levy Freeze but Is Disappointed by Future Tax Hike

The Chancellor’s decision to continue the freeze in the Aggregates Levy for 2021/22 is welcomed by the Mineral Products Association, although future indexation will increase costs for the sector. The confirmation of the removal of red diesel from the sector, and almost all other industrial sectors, is disappointing and will simply raise the cost of our products and the homes and infrastructure they go into.

03 Mar 2021

MPA Sustainability Report 2020 Highlights Continuing Improvement Across the Mineral Products Sector

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published its Sustainable Development Report 2020 which covers a range of data from 2019/20 and is aligned with MPA’s seven main strategic priorities and the corresponding objectives and targets. Despite challenging circumstances, the report outlines improvements across the mineral products sector.

24 Feb 2021

CEO Blog: Green pickle

Enough is enough, it’s time for industry to stand up, be proud, be counted and challenge more

17 Feb 2021

MPA Launches New Website

A new website for the mineral products industry – www.mineralproducts.org – has been launched by the Mineral Products Association.

11 Feb 2021

New Health & Safety Awards 2021 Launched by MPA and British Precast

MPA and British Precast have joined forces to launch a new Health and Safety Awards scheme for 2021. The new awards build on the success of the long established and highly acclaimed MPA Health & Safety Awards and retain many of the key elements associated with it.

03 Feb 2021

Construction Demand for Essential Mineral Products Increases in Final Quarter of 2020

Recovery in the market for mineral products like aggregates, concrete, asphalt and mortar was sustained during the fourth quarter of 2020, but full-year sales volumes were down on 2019.

13 Jan 2021

400 Million Tonnes per Annum Confirms Mineral Products Industry as UK’s Biggest Producer

A total of 400 million tonnes of essential aggregates, industrial minerals and other manufactured mineral products were produced in Great Britain in 2018, according to the latest figures published in Profile of the UK Mineral Products Industry, by the Mineral Products Association (MPA), making the sector the UK’s biggest producer by volume.

12 Jan 2021

Jeremy Greenwood to Chair UK Concrete

Jeremy Greenwood has been appointed Chair of UK Concrete to work with Director Chris Leese to marshall the collective resources within MPA in The Concrete Centre, MPA Cement, BRMCA and British Precast as part of the roadmap the sector is implementing to go ‘Beyond Net Zero by 2050’.

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