The Ogden Eccles Convention Center, site of the 2025 NPA Symposium.
The Hampton Inn, attached to the Convention Center, provided accommodations for the majority of the attendees.
Chris Fagouri, NPA President and Director, oversees the action.
The 2025 NPA Symposium was stuffed with two days of educational presentations...
...delivered by 28 experts and industry professionals in natural pozzolans.
Coffee-and-cookie breaks and the Friday Night mixers provided plenty of informal time for attendees to chat it up.
PRESENTERS: Jeff Whidden (CR Minerals), Jason Richins (UDOT), Taylor Sorensen (BYU)
PRESENTERS: John Edwards (3M), Franco Zunino (UC-Berkeley), Kyle Riding (U of Florida)
PRESENTERS: Will Nguyen (Brimstone), Katey O'Quinn (Bureau of Reclamation), Dana Rotkovitch (KB Concrete Systems)
PRESENTERS: Jared Jewell (BYU), Joseph Thomas (Magmatics), Tom Cummings (CR Minerals)
PRESENTERS: Mahipal Kasaniya (UNB), Moe Sharbaf (Penn State), Bayezid Baten (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
PRESENTERS: Spencer Guthrie (BYU), Malak Hosseinpanahi (CalPortland), Anthony Bentivegna (Durability Engineers)
PRESENTERS: Thano Drimalas (UT-Austin), Sarah Lopez (NCE), Anol Mukhopadhyay (Texas A&M)
PRESENTERS:Thomas Holzheu (Chemistry of Concrete), Somayeh Nassiri (UC Pavement Research Center), Burak Uzal (Abdullah Gul University)
PRESENTERS: Eric Giannini (ACA), Ahsan Syed (Carbon Upcycling), Doug Hooton (U of Toronto)
NP EXPERTS PANEL: Maria Juenger (ACI), Dana Rotkovich, Doug Hooton
The 2025 NPA Symposium closed with a field trip to the Hess Pumice mine (located near Malad City, Idaho).
Some 60 attendees opted to see first-hand how pumice (a raw natural pozzolan) is mined.
...then trucked to the nearby Hess processing plants for further crushing and screening to one of two pozzolan grades—Hess Pozz and Hess Ultrapozz.
