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ACPA Certification 2020

Your association has been working towards improving and elevating the ACPA Operator Certification Program for over two years now. In July of 2017, we held a Safety Summit in which ACPA members gathered to discuss a vision for the future of ACPA safety training and certification. Since this time, there have been many meetings and discussions to get our wide-ranging membership to agree on the direction we should take with the program. Some favor a live training format, others prefer online and still others envision a third-party-accredited safety/training and certification program. Although the general consensus did finally concede that our industry is not quite ready for such stringent requirements as third-party testing and practical assessments, the mandate to “step up our game” is clear.

ACPA Attends the Cement and Concrete Fly-In

This past April 9th and 10th, a delegation of ACPA members traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the 2019 Cement and Concrete Fly-In sponsored by the Portland Cement Association (PCA). In all, there were over 140 attendees representing various sectors of the concrete industry who participated in the opportunity to discuss key issues that impact the concrete and cement industries with many top federal officials and congressional offices.

Show Us Your Concrete Pumps!

We will soon be including an "On the Job" page in the Concrete Pumping Magazine featuring photos you submit of your concrete pumps in action on jobsites!

New Members for June 2019

Welcome to the American Concrete Pumping Association!

Marubeni Specialty Chemicals, Inc.
Contact: Ron Ruffer

10 Bank Street, Suite 740
White Plains, NY 10606
610-334-8436

PBIP/Pascal Burke Insurance Brokerage
Contact: Pascal Burke

PO Box 981115
West Sacramento, CA 95798
877-893-7629

ACPA Scholarship Announcement

The Bob Weatherton Scholarship Fund is proud to offer scholarships to eligible members and their families, as well as to members’ employees and their families. Scholarships are for undergraduate, graduate and vocational students in fields related to Concrete, Concrete Pumping, Construction and Engineering, Construction Management and Administration and Vocational studies related to concrete pumps and trucks.

New Members for May 2019

Welcome to the American Concrete Pumping Association!

Action Concrete Pumping
Contact: Scott Neely

2439 East Catalina Avenue
Mesa, AZ 85204
480-430-7106

Action Concrete Pumping Supply
Contact: Scott Neely

830 East Southern Avenue
Mesa, AZ 85204
480-907-7315

New Members for April 2019

Welcome to the American Concrete Pumping Association!

Drews Total Concrete
Contact: Brian Herber

13731 Johnson Memorial Drive
Shakopee, MN 55379
952-641-3300

“Born to Pump” Cocktail Party

While the 1980s rock band Quiet Riot declared they were “born to rock,” we like to say our concrete pumpers are “born to pump.” Thus, “Born to Pump” was the motto for ACPA’s annual cocktail party kicking off World of Concrete. With a rollicking rock-and-roll theme, the party was held Tuesday, January 22 at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel.

IBC Embraces Mass Timber for Model Building Codes

In a stunning, but not too surprising, blow to those of us in the concrete industry, last December the International Code Council (ICC) approved 14 of the 17 tall mass timber code change proposals. The approvals pave the way for the mass timber code change proposals to be included in the 2021 International Building Code (IBC).

Concrete Pumping Association of Canada Holds First Meetings Following Merger

At World of Concrete 2019, the Concrete Pumping Association of Canada first announced their intentions to merge with the American Concrete Pumping Association and operate as an ACPA chapter while retaining its CPAC name. The merger will allow CPAC to benefit from ACPA’s resources developed over the past 45 years while combining its own resources into a unified organization.

The initial meeting at WOC was met with positive feedback, according to Daryl Dika, CPAC co-founder and board member and stakeholder with Reach Construction Services.

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