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40 YEARS
Tallinn June 2013
1973 - 2013
Dear EAPA members and EAPA friends,
introduction
During our EAPA General Council Assembly 2013 which was held
in Tallinn in June we celebrated the 40th Anniversary of EAPA. This
photo book gives an impression of the celebration of the 40th birthday of EAPA.
When you would look at the EAPA goals that were formulated in
1973 you would see that most of them are still part of our present
goals. Some changed, like organising international EAPA Congresses. After the 5th EAPA Congress in 1992, held in The Hague, we
joined forces with Eurobitume in organising the Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congresses and the 6th one will be held in Prague in 2016.
In 1990 the European Standardisation for Bituminous Mixtures
started. In the last decennia the importance of the European Union
increased and more directives and regulations are now coming from
“Brussels”. That was also the reason for moving the EAPA office from
Breukelen (in the Netherlands) to Brussels in 2005.
At this moment EAPA is very active and working on numerous items.
This shows the importance of a European Association representing
the European asphalt industry in Brussels.
We have many challenges for the future and therefore I wish EAPA
another 40 years in a very good health.
Jean-Louis Marchand.
40 YEARS
11th June 2013
- EAPA GCA 2013
Celebration of EAPA’s 40th Anniversary
- Welcome drink
- Dinner
- Speech of Dieter Schüler
- Concert
- Lecture
12th June 2013
- Technical tour
eapa gca 2013
CONTENTS
1973 - 2013
Talliun
jean-louis marchand & max von devivere
alan mckenzie & melanie
Borut Willenpart, Slovenko
Henigman & Dariusz Slotwinski
dieter schÜler & MAGGIE
EAPA GCA 2013 - Welcome drink
Tibor Veress
Slovenko Henigman,Borut Willenpart
Petr Svoboda, Petr Cížek
Arne Aaberg
Dinner location: Kadriorg Palace
malcolm simms, rombout Hartemink
Aleksander Kaldas, Arvo Kaksonen
Derya Senyay, Maggie Schüler
gulay malkoc, ayberk ozcan, Carsten karcher
Bjørnar Broderstad
Eric Thunegard, Egbert Beuving
LILIAN KAMM
LILIAN KAMM and Sven Pertens
Jürgen Reifig, Ibrahim Senyay
Welcome by Sven Pertens
Welcome speech
JÜRI (l) & RIINA LÄLL (r)
Jean-louis marchand
ILMAR LINK, OLARI & KATRIN KARLSON, MÄRT &
MAARIKA PUUST, ENE & KOIT TSEFELS
simon van der byl, jean-louis marchand, arvo kaksonen
Ayberk Özcan, simon van der byl, jean-louis marchand
Jean-Baptiste de prÉmare, slovenko henigman, borut willenpart, mÄrt puust & MAARIKA Puust
DINNER
arvo kaksonen - eapa president 1994-1996
Dariusz slotwinski - eapa president 2004-200
alan mckenzie, melanie baxter, malcolm simms, rombout Hartemink
gÜ lay malkoc
DIETER SCHÜler, suzy van der byl
EstAPA MEMBERS & ACCOMPANYING PERSONS
JÜrgen Reifig
Carsten Karcher
max von devivere, MAGGie SCHÜler, DIETER SCHÜler, suzy van der byl
jean-louis marchand
MAGGie SCHÜler
EstAPA MEMBERS & ACCOMPANYING PERSONS
DINNER menu
KADRIORU - KUNSTIMUUSEUM
C-Jam cello quartet
CONCERT
C-JAM: PÄRT TARVAS, LEVI-DANEL MÄGILA, MARGUS UUS, ANDREAS LEND
40 YEARS
1973 - 2013
KOIT & ENE TSEFELS, ALEKSANDER KALDAS
MELANIE
GULAY MALKOC, MAARIKA PUUST
LECTURE
40 YEARS
1973 - 2013
TOOMAS TIIVEL
PAST eapa presidents
1976 - 2014
’76 – ’78Leonard C. Clugston
(UK) †
’78 – ’80
Jens Wisloff
(N)
’80 – ’82
Jacques van de Winckel
(B)
†
’82 – ’84Ir. S. van der Wal
(NL) †
’84 – ’86
(D) Dieter Schüler
’86 - ’88Erik Frandsen (DK) †
’88 – ’90
Michel Cambournac
(F)
’90 – ’92Roy Bergquist
(S)
’92 – ’94
(NL)
Jan C. Rothweiler
’94 – ’96Arvo Kaksonen
(FIN)
’96 – ’98
Henri Moulierac
(F)
’98 – ’00
Peter Rothwell
(UK)
’00 – ’02
Dieter Schüler
(D) ’02 – ’04
Hans Gormsen
(DK)
’04 – ‘08 Dariusz Slotwinski
(PL) ’06 – ‘08 Dariusz Slotwinski
(PL) ’08 – ’11Alan Mackenzie
(UK)
’11 – ‘14 (Fr)
Jean-Louis Marchand
†
Present EAPA president with Past EAPA Presidents
Ayberk Ozcan presenting the “Eye of Fatima” to EAPA to protect EAPA.
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear colleagues in the asphalt business,
Asphalt binds roads as well as people. This is why we are meeting in Tallinn today. It is a
great honour and pleasure for my wife, Maggie, and me to be here today, and we would
like to sincerely thank EAPA for inviting us.
A Chinese proverb says that even a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Forty years ago, in 1973, EAPA took that first step.
A year earlier, in September of 1972, the founding of a European asphalt association had
been contemplated in London at the international “Conference on the Structural Design of
Asphalt Pavements”. European asphalt federations and their associated organisations then
met for a conference on March 9, 1973, a conference that had been planned and realised
by the German asphalt association. It was attended by delegates from Austria, Belgium,
Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.
After an in-depth discussion, they decided to hold a one day conference on October 14,
1973, once again in Munich, with delegates from as many European asphalt associations
as possible.
Then, on October 14, 1973, the European Asphalt Pavement Association was born. Its
eleven founding members were from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Great- Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden. Swiss representatives came
as guests because there was no official national association in Switzerland. The founding
conference also welcomed representatives from the US National Asphalt Pavement Association and from South Africa. Forty years later, EAPA has 21 member associations from 15
countries as well as 16 associated members.
From the beginning, EAPA has had amiable and intensifying relations to the asphalt associations of the United States and Australia, which have mutually enriched our activities until
today.
At the founding conference in Munich, two keynote speeches addressed what we considered the core themes for our future European association:
• Goals, challenges, and problems of environmental protection in our member countries.
speech of dieter schÜler
They also invited the US, Australian, and South African associations to participate. This
conference was to coincide with the 1973 World Road Congress in Munich. The delegates
of the March conference also decided that a more general congress would meet one or two
years down the road. Furthermore, they also created a preparatory committee to organize
the October Congress. The secretary general of the German association, Dr. Wilhelm Josch,
served as secretary of this preparatory committee.
• The quality of asphalt mix and how to improve it.
We all realise that these topics remain the core of our work until today.
The founding delegates elected Dr. Wilhelm Josch first secretary general and stipulated that,
for the time being, the main office of EAPA would be located with the association of the
acting secretary general. During his time in office, Dr. Josch worked hard for EAPA and succeeded in continually giving new impulses to the work of the association; so did most of his
successors.
Let me please add some private remarks to the service of Wilhelm Josch: Without doubt
Wilhelm has rendered outstanding services, in initiating and preparing the founding of EAPA
as well as in serving as its secretary general. I cannot praise him enough for what he did for
EAPA, and if he was here today he could say more about our first years than I can. I am not
exaggerating when I say that Wilhelm Josch was Mr. EAPA in those years!
Shortly after the founding of our new association, the first oil crisis hit the asphalt industry and
its customers hard, with sudden and exorbitant price increases. Thanks to the tremendous efforts of everybody involved, we mastered this crisis and every other crisis that followed it. No
doubt, EAPA proved imperative in the year it was founded.
Let me quickly look back to 1976, when the first European asphalt congress took place in
Montreux on Lake Geneva. Some of us might still remember when the newly-elected president
Leonard Clugston (Cluggy) was presented with a veritable sword to arm him quite literally for
upcoming skirmishes. Elated about the present, Cluggy went on to demonstrate the use of it
to one of his compatriots and ACMA delegate, Ian Menzies. His thorough demonstration resulted in slashing Menzies’ dark suit, the only such outfit he had taken along. Menzies had to
attend the festive evening banquet in a light summer jacket, a fact that everyone noticed and
many took as a bad omen for ACMA eventually leaving EAPA.
I see, today you had no swords in your assembly.
This otherwise very successful convention was the prelude for the quadrennial EURASPHALT
congresses that have taken place ever since.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hope that we will all spend a wonderful evening here together and
that your stay in Tallinn will be rewarding and eventful in every respect. I also hope that EAPA
will continue its work vigorously and successfully under its secretary general Egbert Beuving
and its new director, Dr. Carsten Karcher, true to the old Johnny Walker motto - “Still going
strong!
Good luck for ASPHALT
Good luck for EAPA
Good luck for EUROPE
EAPA Secretary General 1990 - 2000
“Estonian Passport”
1973 - 2013
AYBERK OZCAN, JEAN-LOUIS MARCHAND
40 YEARS
EGBERT BEUVING, JEAN-LOUIS MARCHAND
ERKI MÖLDER of trev2
Introduction in TRV-2 Company. Engineering Machinery Co., Ltd.
Beijing CA-LONG
ms. helena zhao of chinese asphalt plant producer
technical tour
First Chinese origin asphalt plant IN ESTONIA AND IN EUROPEAN UNION
40 YEARS
1973 - 2013
VISIT TO ASPHALT PLANT
the old plant
ÜLEMISTE INTERSECTION
JÜRI LÄLL
TIIT JOOSTI (Guide)
Carsten karcher
map
40 YEARS
1973 - 2013