Boisselon has already achieved a great deal in France’s quarrying and construction materials sector. Currently, director for the aggregates quarry activity of the Vicat Group, UNICEM’s new president has also held several regional industry union positions throughout his career to date. UNICEM Rhône-Alpes president since 2012, in 2016 Boisselon organised the merger between UNICEM Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes and became president of the AURA region.
Boisselon’s union experience is also rich at the national level. He was a member of the SNBPE (National Union of Ready-to-Use Concrete) steering committee as a representative of Vicat between 1990 and 2000; a member of the UNICEM board from 2013 to 2017; and a member of the board of UNPG since 2019, chairing the organisation’s Economic Commission for 20 years until 2016. At the European level, Boisselon was president of the Environment Committee of the UEPG (European Union of Aggregate Producers) for six years, from 2014 to 2020.
With his years of commitment to and experience of union life, Boisselon plans to use his term as UNICEM president to strengthen the unifying role of the organisation through its regional and member unions, promoting consultation and union work in the study and defence of member companies’ interests. Boisselon also intends to develop a long-term vision to ensure the sustainability and development of the French quarrying and construction materials industries; this includes generating wider recognition of the industries’ high-quality products.
“The need to fight against climate change, CO₂ emissions, to preserve biodiversity, to better protect water resources and air quality, subject us to destabilising questions from stakeholders, starting with our customers,” said Boisselon. He added: “The nature of our activities explains these questions to which we must respond with clear directions, convincing explanations supported by facts, visible progress. Only collective action, and in our case that of our union, can meet this need.”
