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The European Asphalt Pavement Association (EAPA) has awarded Juan José Potti, President of ASEFMA (Asociatión Espanola de Fabricantes de Mezclas Asfálticas), the Spanish Asphalt Producers Association, with the “EAPA Asphalt Advocate of the Year” award during its General Council Assembly in Berlin on 13 June 2018. With this award EAPA honours a member that has demonstrated own initiatives regarding a better asphalt road marketing and the communication of important industry’s topics. The Asphalt Advocate must have supported the “Asphalt Advantages” campaign EAPA initiated together with Eurobitume, the European Association of Bitumen Producers. This award was provided for the second time after 2017.

Click here to download the Invitation and Call for Papers for the E&E Congress 2020.

You can download EAPA’s Asphalt in Figures 2016 here. As you can learn from the figures the total asphalt production in Europe remained rather stable in 2016.

Parliamentary Breakfast Debate with MEP Wim van de Camp and MEP Ismail Ertug on the “Environmental Responsibility and Innovations in the European Asphalt Pavement Industry” Download the summary of a Parliamentary breakfast debate here or read it below Download the speech of Egbert Beuving here Download the (high resolotion) pictures by clicking on them

Foundation Eurasphalt, the organiser of all the E&E congresses, created a photobook as token of appreciation for all the persons that were involved in organising the 6th E&E Congress in Prague. The digital version of this photobook can be downloaded be clicking here.

New EAPA – EUPAVE – FEHRL Position Paper “Road Pavement industries highlight huge CO2 savings offered by maintaining and upgrading roads”.

Ismail Ertug, Member of the European Parliament, Coordinator of the Social Democrats for the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) in the European Parliament, gave a keynote speech about “Transport in the European Union” at 9th EAPA Symposium 2015 in Istanbul. In front of more than 100 participants he spoke about the tasks and duties of the European Parliament, here especially the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) and, of course, about infrastructure. During the infrastructure…

After the 9th EAPA Symposium 2015 in Istanbul, a technical tour was arranged to the construction site of the 3rd Bosporus Bridge at the northern part of Istanbul called Marmara region. This region is densely populated and economically developed where decrease in the road service capacity inherits the economic activities and results in loss of time, work force and money. For the construction of the bridge a Public Private Partnership system with Built-Operate and Transfer Method…

On 3rd March 2015 Egbert Beuving and Carsten Karcher of EAPA had a meeting with the Member of European Parliament (MEP) Dr. Dieter-L. Koch, Vice-chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) in Brussels.

EAPA and Eurobitume launch new website AsphaltAdvantages.com As you all know EAPA and Eurobitume created a Task Force on Providing Evidence Asphalt Advantages to promote the advantages of asphalt pavements and demonstrate that asphalt is the material of choice. In a first step on a five years promoting campaign a new online website platform www.asphaltadvantages.com was created.