The manufacturers and suppliers of the National Precast Concrete Association have played an important role in the rapid evolution of a dynamic industry, and their entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to learn from each other has pushed the precast concrete sector ever forward.
They have developed new products, improved quality, advanced in-plant safety and created standards for the industry in North America. What has evolved from that collective effort is a diverse industry that ranges from deep underground infrastructure products to soaring skyscrapers and everything in between.
The collaborative effort between manufacturers and suppliers, the openness of producers to share information with their peers and family relationships that span the generations are what makes NPCA a unique trade association.
50th Anniversary and Annual Convention Videos
50th Anniversary and Annual Convention Photos and Coffee Table Book
Precast Pioneers Featured in Precast Inc.
“He proposed … we should open our doors to all smaller precasters and start a new association.”
Doug Hoskin
Writing about Robert Yoakum’s speech to unit step producers
“Bob’s philosophy was that we needed a forum for the free exchange of ideas.”
Jim Barbour
NPCA President (1969)
“We needed a unified voice that could speak for the industry in general.”
J.T. (Tom) Lendrum,
NPCA President (1975)
“When you’ve been in this business as
long as I have, it’s your life. To associate with people who are in the same position, you can’t ask for anything better.”
Kurt Burkhart
Arrow Concrete Products
“I literally wrote by longhand – pages and pages. I’d send them back and we’d make overhead slides for the projector. That was how it started.”
Mel Marshall
Describing designing NPCA’s education courses
“I think the one common thing in the NPCA group is the camaraderie.”
Vernon Wehrung
NPCA President (2004)
