On Thursday 6 June 2019 EAPA organised the EAPA Symposium 2019 at La Maison des Travaux Publics in Paris (France). Around 100 participants, mainly from Industry and Public Road Administrations attended the event, where they had a great opportunity to interact with the speakers and network with other stakeholders of asphalt industry.

Representatives of the European construction sector have come together to call for a Co-programmed European Partnership on the Built Environment and Construction under Horizon Europe, the next EU research framework programme. Launching the communication, the President of the European Council for Construction Research, Development and Innovation (ECCREDI), Sue Arundale said “The whole industry needs and wants to accelerate the digital transformation of the business, which will be critical to resolving the main societal challenges of Europe....

Industry4Roads Meeting On February 19th 2019 Breixo Gómez-Meijide of EAPA attended the meeting of Industry4Europe, a coalition where EAPA is one of the 138 current members. They have great presence among the European Commission, trade associations, parties (PPE, PES, Green Party), etc. They have been invited to participate in a meeting with the 28 Ministers of Economy/Industry of the EU and many of the conlcusions of the European Coucil align completely with their statements. An...

Changes in EAPA Secretariat on 1 January 2019 Egbert Beuving will retire at the end of December 2019. Egbert has started working at EAPA in 2001 as a Technical Director, later in 2009 he became Director of EAPA and in 2013 he was named Secretary General of EAPA. On 1 January 2019 Carsten Karcher will become the new EAPA Secretary General. Breixo Gómez-Meijide joined EAPA in October 2018 as Technical Director and is the focal point...

EAPA Asphalt in Figures 2017 The latest production and industry figures of the European Asphalt Industry “EAPA Asphalt in Figures 2017” has been released on 27 December 2018. The total production of hot and warm mix asphalt increased in 2017 by 3.1% to 233.9 million tonnes for EU-28 and by 5.0% to 296.7 million tonnes for all European countries including e.g. Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. Additionally, it has been the third year in a row...

EAPA Magazine #43 EAPA’s Magazine #43 is out. In this Magazine we will give you as usual an overview of what happened in Brussels,in Europe and outside Europe regarding asphalt in the past 7 months. Download the Magazine here

EAPA Position Paper “Recommendations for the use of rejuvenators in hot and warm asphalt production” Short version and Long version for EAPA Members Only This document seeks to describe current understanding on the potential benefits and the underlying conditions of using rejuvenators to optimise the reuse of reclaimed asphalt in asphalt production. This document is intended for the asphalt industry to help increase their knowledge level regarding the use of rejuvenators and to provide indicative guidance to enable selection...

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.

EAPA Secretary General Egbert Beuving and EAPA Director dr. Carsten Karcher met the Member of European Parliament (MEP) Ismail Ertug from Germany. He has been elected again for the new European Parliament three weeks ago.