The Mineral Products Association is the trade association for companies involved in supplying crushed rock from land and marine sources (known as marine aggregates), as well as those working in the asphalt, concrete and aggregates industries, ready-mixed concrete, silica sand, agricultural lime, mortar, cement, slag, recycled aggregates, construction and quarry plant.

We represent our members' interests on policy, planning and technical matters with government departments, local authorities, professional trade bodies and other key audiences at European, national and local levels.

In 2010, we won the Trade Association Forum Environmental initiative Best Practice Award for the Sustainable Concrete Strategy and we were finalists in the Electronic Communications category for our newsletter.

Our regional structure, based on UK economic and planning regions, enables us to enter into dialogue with all interested parties at county and local levels.

The following organisations are constituent bodies of the Mineral Products Association:

• Agricultural Lime Association (ALA)
• British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA)
• British Lime Association (BLA)
• British Ready-Mixed Concrete Association (BRMCA)
• MPA Cement
• Mortar Industry Association (MIA)
• Silica and Moulding Sands Association (SAMSA)
• The Concrete Centre

To view all the MPA personnel or the various MPA members please use the links in the 'also relevant' section shown to the right.

On our website you will also find information on sustainable development, inert waste, mineral planning, geodiversity, biodiversity and the ALSF, as well as environmental protection, resource conservation, sustainable construction, earth science and carbon reduction.

The MPA represents the interests of more than 120 quarry operators who together produce more than 90% of the UK's aggregate-based construction materials and in doing so provide livelihoods for 40,000 people.

Did you know, for example, that each person in the UK uses four tonnes of aggregates each year? And that the quarrying industry has planted over two million trees in recent years? Or that it has helped to safeguard Britain's archaeology at a cost of around £10 million?

Regional structure

Our regional structure is based on UK economic planning regions, allowing us to enter into dialogue with interested parties at county and local level. The MPA regions are shown in our UK map right.

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Mineral Products Association
Gillingham House
38-44 Gillingham Street
London
SW1V 1HU

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7963 8000
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7963 8001
E-mail: info@mineralproducts.org