Gencor Industries Inc. will host Maximizing Profitability with Energy Management: A Workshop on Asphalt Mix Plant Energy Efficiency in Orlando on Feb. 25-26.

Registration is capped and ends Feb. 10.

The Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT) celebrated 100 years of asphalt innovations in 2024, hosting a Centennial Celebration that reviewed its century of work in the asphalt paving technology industry.

The AAPT Board of Directors unanimously voted to recognize NAPA President & CEO Audrey Copeland as an AAPT Fellow Member in recognition of her contributions to AAPT.

When the 119th Congress is seated this month, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will be less than two years from its funding expiration in 2026.

Between polarized constituencies, numerous other federal priorities, and lawmakers who may be unfamiliar with the asphalt pavement industry, NAPA Vice President for Government Affairs Nile Elam said those members of Congress are nearly as dependent on industry stakeholders for learning how to wield power as they are on voters for being elected to lead.

NAPA’s Community Involvement Award recognizes NAPA member companies that have become neighborhood names when it comes to local support in good times and bad.

Browse articles celebrating the award-winning companies: Callanan Industries and Memphis Stone & Gravel.

It's been a somber winter for the asphalt pavement industry, and NAPA shares its grief with the friends and families of these members of the community who have passed on:

Roger Yarbrough

A NAPA Life Member, Roger Yarbrough served as Chairman of the NAPA Board of Directors in 1984 and was inducted into the NAPA Hall of Fame in 1997.

Yarbrough was a past president of the Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association and was a member of NAPA's Education Foundation Board of Trustees in 1986 when the Research & Education Foundation partnered with Auburn University to establish the National Center for Asphalt Technology.

Francis O. “Mike” Day, III

The son of Francis O. “Buster” Day, Jr., and Alice Marie Whalen Day, Mike founded the Brigham and Day Company in 1964. In 1990, the company merged with Francis O. Day Company and Mike became the third generation to manage the family business.
 
"We lost a titan of the roadway and asphalt industry, whose impact on his family, friends, and all who knew him was even greater," said Maryland Asphalt Association President Tim Smith. "Let us honor his legacy by embracing his unwavering commitment to quality work and prioritizing family above all."

Carl Monismith 

Carl Monismith began his career in pavement design and technology research in 1951 at the University of California at Berkeley and was best known for his numerous contributions to research in fatigue-related distress of asphalt pavements both in the field and in the lab.

 

Monismith served as chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Asphalt Pavements from 1988 to 1990 and was inducted into the NAPA Hall of Fame in 2005.

 

 

 

Emissions minimizing innovations earned Tilcon’s New Britain Plant the NAPA Environmental Leadership Award.

2024 was the second consecutive year NAPA has been a co-organizer of Hill Days, the fall joint advocacy event hosted in partnership with the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) and the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA).

NAPA Vice President for Government Affairs Nile Elam led a legislative briefing for NAPA members ahead of a joint advocacy training where he took the stage with his trade association counterparts.