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After the Industrial Strategy: decarbonisation, not deindustrialisation? Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
After the Industrial Strategy: decarbonisation, not deindustrialisation?
Cement is essential for modern civilisation, while also being one of the harder to decarbonise industries in the economy. As the active ingredient in concrete, cement is key to building everything the Government has pledged to build, from nuclear power stations and wind turbines to 1.5m homes and their supporting infrastructure. It is a key part of delivering economic and national security, climate resilience and quality of life, so we all need a reliable, domestic supply chain.
The next steps: how to build on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
The next steps: how to build on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill
The Government’s flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill is currently making its way through Parliament, with a lot of hopes being pinned on the Bill and its provisions. These hopes are shared by MPA member companies in the domestic supply chain required for their construction. But there are further steps needed to deliver the necessary raw materials and products required to deliver Government’s ambitions.
Quarries and Nature 2025: Celebrating the Mineral Industry’s Role in Nature Recovery Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
Quarries and Nature 2025: Celebrating the Mineral Industry’s Role in Nature Recovery
Extracting the raw materials required to create essential homes and infrastructure need not be at the expense of natural habitats. A recent awards event, organised by the Mineral Products Association (MPA), showcased the UK mineral industry’s contribution to creating spaces for nature and improving biodiversity.
Critical Minerals Strategy Is A 'Test Case' For Britain's Place In The World
Economy
Critical Minerals Strategy Is A "Test Case" For Britain's Place In The World
The critical minerals industry is widely seen as a “test case” for Britain’s role in the world, as experts and MPs warn the government against “rushing” into trade agreements with China.
How decarbonisation doesn’t have to mean deindustrialisation Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
How decarbonisation doesn’t have to mean deindustrialisation
A Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism can level the playing field for our domestic industries as the UK decarbonises.
The secret ingredient behind our daily lives… and how to make it net zero Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
The secret ingredient behind our daily lives… and how to make it net zero
The Mineral Products Association sets out a roadmap for how the lime production industry can be fully decarbonised by 2040.
Build, build, build… but don’t take construction materials supply for granted Partner content
Economy
By Mineral Products Association
Build, build, build… but don’t take construction materials supply for granted
If our politicians want to succeed on housebuilding and major infrastructure projects, they can't afford to ignore the supply of construction materials.
Real Regulatory Reform Requires Focus on How, Not What Partner content
Economy
By Mineral Products Association
Real Regulatory Reform Requires Focus on How, Not What
With the British economy projected to barely avoid a technical recession this year, it comes as no surprise that the question of how to get the economy growing again has become more pressing. The Mineral Products Association's blueprint for smart regulation can help.
China’s dominance of rare earth metals has left Britain strategically vulnerable
Economy
By Alexander Stafford MP
China’s dominance of rare earth metals has left Britain strategically vulnerable
With the Glasgow agreement reached and the UK’s Net Zero Strategy published, we must now turn our attention to delivery. The market is already speeding towards new net-zero industries, encouraged by government policy but mostly spurred by the constant demand for better technology, like renewable energy and electric vehicles.
Now is not the time for tax rises, says leading construction suppliers Partner content
Economy
By Mineral Products Association
Now is not the time for tax rises, says leading construction suppliers
As the suppliers of the materials that construction and a host of other industries rely on, now is not the time to hit our members with tax hikes.  
After Brexit and ahead of COP, UK construction must review supply chains Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
After Brexit and ahead of COP, UK construction must review supply chains
With Brexit done, many industries including construction are anxious about any future disruption at ports. But there are also pressing environmental and economic reasons to prompt construction to look at supply chains much more deeply, including questioning the carbon impacts of imported materials.
A net zero pathway to change Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
A net zero pathway to change
We now need to see a net zero roadmap from Government which provides greater clarity for essential industrial sectors to help business plan ahead and ensure that the UK remains an attractive place to invest.
The Prime Minister’s 10 point plan must focus on delivery Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
The Prime Minister’s 10 point plan must focus on delivery
The Mineral Products Association cautiously welcomes the Prime Minister’s ten-point plan for the environment but as is too often the case, we are left asking about delivery.
How is the concrete industry decarbonising faster than the UK economy as a whole? Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
How is the concrete industry decarbonising faster than the UK economy as a whole?
Going further than net-zero, the UK concrete and cement industry has launched a roadmap to become net negative by 2050, removing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it emits each year.
Journey to net zero calls for carbon whole truths Partner content
Economy
By Mineral Products Association
Journey to net zero calls for carbon whole truths
The many tangible benefits of using concrete in construction are often underestimated or misunderstood.
Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
Mineral Products Association welcomes Flooding announcement
The Mineral Products Association has welcomed the Government’s announcement setting out details of the £5.2 billion pledged for flood defences and increasing resilience.
Partner content
Economy
By Mineral Products Association
Legalizing e-scooters could pose a threat to road safety, MPA warns
The Mineral Products Association has responded to the Government’s consultation on the ‘Future of Mobility’ with a strong call for e-scooters to be banned from shared roads, not legalized.
Coronavirus
By Mineral Products Association
Mineral products sector says Build Back Better must deliver quicker
The Mineral Products Association has cautiously welcomed the Prime Minister’s speech and his determination to “build back better” but warned that without a real focus on accelerated delivery it could disappoint and undermine confidence to invest.
Fire safety debate must be informed by net zero facts Partner content
Economy
By Mineral Products Association
Fire safety debate must be informed by net zero facts
Buildings are one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the UK, something which has to be tackled if we are to reach net zero. Simultaneously it’s critical that we take every opportunity to build safety into all new buildings in order to protect lives. It is possible to deliver both
Economy
By Mineral Products Association
Great Britain top of the league in construction aggregates recycling
Recycled and secondary sources of construction aggregates supplied 28% of total demand in Great Britain in 2018, well ahead of the European average. This is an ongoing success story for the mineral products industry and reflects the sector’s continued commitment to recycling and the circular economy.
To ensure the future supply of essential mineral products, the planning system must be reformed Partner content
Economy
By Mineral Products Association
To ensure the future supply of essential mineral products, the planning system must be reformed
A new policy paper published by the Mineral Products Association calls for reform of the mineral planning system to ensure future supply to support housing and infrastructure construction, manufacturing and other key strategic sectors of the economy.
Economy
By Mineral Products Association
UK Concrete outlines framework for ‘beyond net zero’
MPA UK Concrete, the group representing the UK concrete industry, has developed a framework to help inform the delivery of an ambitious roadmap for the UK concrete and cement sector to deliver net negative emissions by 2050.
Coronavirus
By Mineral Products Association
MPA calls for reform of mineral planning system to ensure future supply of essential mineral products
The Mineral Products Association has today published a policy paper calling for reform of the mineral planning system to ensure future supply to support housing and infrastructure construction, manufacturing and other key strategic sectors of the economy.
Coronavirus
By Mineral Products Association
‘Cash bridge’ remains at heart of MPA calls on Chancellor for more business support now and into recovery
Surviving the recovery, when bills will come in faster than payment of invoices for some months, will be another challenge for industry and we need Government to provide direct support and to ensure that planned infrastructure goes ahead as soon as possible.