Pacific Pumice Supplies

Pacific Pumice is located very close to the largest export port in New Zealand, the Port of Tauranga, with very frequent links by major shipping lines to other ports all over the world. This gives major transport economies for export shipment, in containerised or bulk shipment form, allowing Pacific Pumice to be competitively priced compared to sources often closer to the customer. We specialise in bulk shipment but please contact us to discuss other options for packaging.

Combine a superior product, experience in export, access to considerable expertise in pumice use in more technical applications, prompt efficient service and competitive pricing, and Pacific Pumice is a natural choice as a source of pumice.

Why Pacific Pumice is the pumice of choice for export

Pacific Pumice has the largest licensed pumice resource in New Zealand. Reserves are estimated in excess of 150 million tonnes, with 35 million tonne of easily extracted material in the area presently being mined. It is located within a few kilometres of New Zealand's largest export port, the Port of Tauranga, with the ability to ship in bulk or shipping containers, at low cost.

Pacific Pumice has high capacity equipment to give accurate size grading, blending, and moisture adjustment by rotary kiln drying, and bulk delivery to New Zealand customers and overseas markets.

Pacific Pumice has experience in meeting strict standards for lightweight aggregate and in supplying major concrete masonry producers.

In New Zealand, major concrete masonry manufacturers, with their own pumice quarries closer to their block plants than Pacific Pumice Supplies Ltd, still choose to truck in our pumice over considerable distances, under large annual supply contracts.

Part of the reason for this is that the dry screened, unwashed pumice we supply has a small portion of fines still present, which assists production of higher strength concrete. The naturally rounded particles also require less water added to the mix than sharp-edged crushed grades of aggregate, again leading to higher MPa results for a given concrete density.

Compared to pumice from river deposits, Pacific Pumice simply performs better.