The QPA has published its fourth Sustainable Development Report, providing data up to 2007. |  |
Prehistoric hand axes discovered in sand and gravel dredged from the North Sea by Hanson Aggregates Marine, have won the Best Archaeological Discovery Award at the prestigious British Archaeology Awards – described as the ‘Oscars’ of the archaeological world. | |
Quarry Products Association Scotland (QPA Scotland), the principal trade body for the aggregates and quarry products sector, has welcomed the announcement by Scottish Government to implement a wide-ranging package of improvements to make Scotland’s planning system leaner and fitter. | |
Sales volume of aggregates and ready mixed concrete declined very sharply in the third quarter of 2008. | |
In a trip organised by BMAPA last week, new DEFRA Minister for the Natural and Marine Environment, Wildlife and Rural Affairs - Huw Irranca-Davies - visited an 8,500t capacity dredger on the river Thames. | |
QPA’s most prestigious health and safety event of the year took place today at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London: the QPA Health and Safety Best Practice Awards. | |
The British Cement Association (BCA), the Quarry Products Association (QPA) and The Concrete Centre (TCC) have announced today (5 September) that they are to merge to form a single organisation. The new organisation will formally launch on 1 January 2009. | |
The British Ready Mixed Concrete Association (BRMCA), the principal trade body for the industry, has identified increasing demand in the market place for Self Compacting Concrete, or SCC, following research across the sector. | |
Sales volume of aggregates and ready mixed concrete declined again in the second quarter of 2008, compared with the same period of 2007. | |
The British Marine Aggregate Producers’ Association (BMAPA) has this week become a signatory for a joint statement on the Marine Bill that highlights areas of common agreement on the draft Bill with fellow seabed users. | |
QPA, the principal trade body for the quarry products sector, has expressed relief that Defra has at last confirmed that the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) will be maintained for the next three years. | |
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union working for the Health and Safety Executive will begin a campaign of industrial action next week over the closure of its London HQ. |
A new document, ‘Guidance on the production of fully recovered asphalt road planings’, has been produced jointly by QPA Scotland and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). | |
Head of Planning Resources and Environment Policy Division at DCLG, Stephanie Hurst, announced that “there are no current plans for significant changes to the minerals planning system” at the QPA’s annual Minerals Planning Conference in Wolverhampton last week. | |
Parents are being warned to be vigilant over the bank holiday weekend as a warm spell could lead to children being exposed to unseen dangers in the UK’s quarries. | |
It’s the same address, but a brand new home for the British Lime Association as it launches its new-look public website at www.britishlime.org. | |
QPA Scotland, the principal trade body for the quarry products sector, has welcomed the launch of Scottish Natural Heritage’s Fossil Code which will provide advice on best practice in the collection, identification, conservation and storage of fossil specimens found in Scotland. | |
The QPA, the principal trade body for the quarry products sector, has today launched updated reportable injury figures for 2007 as the industry continues its journey towards target zero. | |
As we approach the new financial year, QPA has been totting up the bill for what is set to be the most expensive year yet for the quarrying industry. | |
QPA, the principal trade body for the quarry products sector has branded the Chancellor’s decision to index link the Aggregates Levy in 2009 as environmentally and economically perverse. Next year’s 5p increase amounts to a remarkable 25% increase in just two years. | |