Gencor Industries Joins The Road Forward Initiative
GREENBELT, MD—NAPA welcomes Gencor Industries, Inc., as a partner in The Road Forward, an industry-wide vision for sustainable communities and commerce. This partnership helps fund ongoing efforts to engage, educate, and empower the U.S. asphalt community, driving forward the milestone of achieving net zero carbon emission asphalt pavements by 2050.
Headquartered in Orlando, Fla., Gencor has been a NAPA Associate member since 1958. Among other volunteer leadership roles serving the industry, Senior Vice President Dennis Hunt serves on NAPA’s Committee for Engineering Application & Practice.
Gencor manufactures asphalt plants, soil remediation plants, combustion systems, and heat transfer systems for the road construction industry. At the heart of Gencor’s values is continuous improvement and innovation, which has been the driving force behind its success.
For more than a half-century, Gencor has been an innovator in the asphalt mix industry, amassing hundreds of patents and introducing technologies that have revolutionized the way asphalt mix is produced, making production more efficient and sustainable. Ground-breaking concepts spawned by Gencor companies include the counter-flow drum mixer, blue-smoke capture system, advanced Ultra low NOx burner, reverse-flow baghouse, low-energy warm-mix asphalt, and the use of high percentage recycled asphalt.
These innovations have shaped the industry by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving fuel efficiency, and decreasing the use of energy in every ton of asphalt mix produced, demonstrating a commitment to environmental sustainability. Throughout its history, Gencor championed environmental awareness long before it became a global concern and has continued to lead the development of technologies that deliver the most environmentally friendly and highest quality asphalt mix on a global scale.
“We are grateful to Gencor for their support of The Road Forward,” remarked NAPA President & CEO Audrey Copeland, PhD, PE, “because the industry can’t reach its net zero goals without everyone at the table. The very first goal of The Road Forward, Achieve net zero carbon emissions during asphalt production and construction by 2050, underscores how important it is to have plant manufacturers like Gencor with us on this journey.”
The Road Forward brings together the entire U.S. asphalt community to conduct research, implementation, and ongoing education. Opportunities to join the program in 2024 close today, August 30, and will re-open for annual enrollment in conjunction with NAPA’s 2025 Annual Meeting, February 2-5 in Maui.
The Road Forward Partners are NAPA members that actively support this work through financial contributions, leadership, and expertise. New this year, NAPA invites nonprofit organizations, likeminded associations, and agencies to support the industry-wide effort through a tiered program. The new tiered program invites all stakeholders to the table to collectively propel the vision toward net zero. Find your company’s opportunity to support sustainability at AsphaltPavement.org/Forward.
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About Gencor
Gencor Industries, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells heavy machinery used in the production of highway construction materials and environmental control equipment. It offers hot-mix asphalt plants to produce asphalt paving materials; related asphalt plant equipment, including hot-mix storage silos, fabric filtration systems, cold feed bins, and other plant components; and a range of mobile batch plants.
About The Road Forward
An initiative of the National Asphalt Pavement Association, The Road Forward: A Vision for Net Zero Carbon Emissions for the Asphalt Pavement Industry calls on the U.S. asphalt community to advance technologies, products, and processes to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Launched in January 2022, the multi-year effort engages, educates, and empowers the U.S. asphalt community to produce and construct net zero carbon emission asphalt pavements.
About NAPA
Founded in 1955, the National Asphalt Pavement Association (AsphaltPavement.org) is the only trade association that exclusively represents the interests of the asphalt pavement material producer/contractor on the national level with Congress, government agencies, and other national trade and business organizations. NAPA supports an active research program designed to improve the quality of asphalt pavements and paving techniques used in the construction of roadways, parking lots, airports, and environmental and recreational facilities. NAPA provides technical, educational, and marketing materials and information to its members and supplies product information to users and specifiers of paving materials.
