Rick Ashton

I started in the sector in 1989 in an aggregates and asphalt testing laboratory with Hanson covering  quarrying and asphalt operations. I studied construction materials technology with Bath College then quarrying and asphalt technology with Doncaster College. I joined Aggregate Industries as a Technical Manager managing on site asphalt testing, laboratories, and various R&D projects before joining TotalEnergies as Market Development Manager in 2011. My role involves marketing communications, technical liaison, market development and representing TotalEnergies at international conferences and seminars. I’m a member of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation, Institute of Quarrying, and a Branch Chairman of the Institute of Asphalt Technology. Also, the Asphalt Industry Alliance PR Committee liaising with ‘The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Better Roads’ and have assisted BSI working groups in the writing and publication of the current UK Asphalt standards.