The Minerals Products Association (MPA), the trade body for the British aggregates, cement and concrete industries, is setting up a Materials Innovation Hub in collaboration with Highways UK. The Hub aims to provide a focal point and meeting place for suppliers, contractors, specifiers and clients involved in pavement materials aspects of highways across the national, regional, local and urban road networks. The new project will primarily focus on finding solutions to a series of real world challenges, and
February 26, 2018
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The Minerals Products Association (867 MPA), the trade body for the British aggregates, cement and concrete industries, is setting up a Materials Innovation Hub in collaboration with Highways UK. The Hub aims to provide a focal point and meeting place for suppliers, contractors, specifiers and clients involved in pavement materials aspects of highways across the national, regional, local and urban road networks.
The new project will primarily focus on finding solutions to a series of real world challenges, and a competition that addresses them will launch this summer. Short-listed entries will be invited to present at Highways UK in November in front a panel of judges in a Dragon’s Den style format.
Furthermore, an industry briefing theatre dedicated to materials and maintenance will also run alongside the hub. The MPA and its near 480 company members will work with Highways UK to ensure that the theatre provides an authoritative and topical account of what it can offer the highways sector.
