Why Should You Join NSSGA?
NSSGA is the aggregate industry's strongest voice in our nation's capital. Members benefit from a professional staff well seasoned in national politics working to represent the industry's interests in Washington, DC. We offer proven, meaningful opportunities to make your voice truly stand out on Capitol Hill. NSSGA keeps you informed, in tune and inside the Washington game whenever its players and power-plays stand to impact your business.
Our members are among the best informed in the industry, receiving the weekly e-Digest & Washington Watch and the bimonthly Stone, Sand and Gravel Review. The Membership Directory and Buyers Guide lists our producer and Pulverized Minerals Division (PMD) members as well as our Manufacturer and Services Division (M&SD) members and the equipment and/or services they provide to the industry. NSSGA provides a full array of educational opportunities and publishes a host of publications to help you excel. Members are invited to take part in our very active committee system. NSSGA offers several discount programs to our members.
You are invited to join with your colleagues to add even more strength to NSSGA's representation of your interests. Membership in NSSGA is an investment in your company's future success!
Recent NSSGA Accomplishments for Aggregate Producers
- $1,500 return for each dollar of dues when NSSGA represented the industry's interests in the enactment of TEA 21, which provides $4.5 billion for aggregates each year.
- $580 each year for each dollar of dues for aggregate purchases because of NSSGA's deep involvement in passage of AIR 21.
- $26,100 savings, on average, in permit fees per plant based on the results of NSSGA tesing of air emissions through 2001; plus an ongoing annual savings of $8,915 per plant based on the reduction or elimination of additional permit fees, testing and monitoring.
- $300,000 allowance under the percentage depletion formula for a company with $6 million in sales, resulting in an annual savings 33 times the cost of dues.
Manufacturers & Services Division
The M&S Division is comprised of firms that manufacture and market equipment or provide services to the industry. Division members are welcome to serve on NSSGA's committees, make presentations at workshops and seminars, provide articles for publications, and place advertisements in NSSGA publications. NSSGA's annual Buyers Guide (both a printed publication and a searchable database on our website) includes each member's listing (alphabetically and by product classification) and producers are encouraged to look first to our M&S Division members for needed equipment/services. NSSGA is a co-owner of the CONEXPO-CON/AGG Show which is the largest exposition held in the Western Hemisphere for the construction, aggregates, and ready mixed concrete industries. Membership in NSSGA permits M&S Division member companies to exhibit at CONEXPO-Con/AGG at reduced space rates.
Pulverized Minerals Division
The Pulverized Minerals Division (PMD) operates as a division of NSSGA. PMD membership is open to manufacturers of minerals that are ground to 97% minus 325 mesh and finer.
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