At Bulk Minerals, we pride ourselves on offering a diverse range of top-quality products to meet the varied needs of our clients.
With their exceptional characteristics, our premium pumice and ash products are predominantly found throughout the construction industry, providing lightweight yet durable solutions. Whilst they are both particularly found in varying blocks, cement and concrete, pumice is also utilised throughout the agricultural and landscaping sectors, and PFA is highly applied in fill and grouting operations. Additionally, our high-grade aggregates can be sourced and delivered on demand to meet all our customer needs.
PUMICE
Bulk Minerals have an exclusive partnership with our pumice supplier Lava. Lava have been quarrying and processing industrial materials since 1952, and are now the largest pumice exporter in the world; producing 1,000,000 tonnes of pumice annually from their pumice deposit at Yali.
Produced as a result of volcanic activity, pumice is a natural lightweight aggregate, and offers numerous and varied beneficial properties:
ECOLOGICAL
SOUND PROOFING
LIGHTWEIGHT
DURABLE
FIRE RESISTANT
UNIFORM WHITE COLOUR
Pumice Characteristics
Bulk Minerals currently offers 4 grades of pumice: 0-3mm, 0-8mm, 2-10mm and 8-15mm
LAVA’s high quality pumice is guaranteed by the ISO9001:2008, CE EN 13055-1:2002 (Lightweight aggregates for concrete, mortars and grouts) and EN 13055-2:2004 (Lightweight aggregates for asphalt mixtures, surface coatings and applications with stabilized or non-stabilized materials).
Bulk Minerals has pumice stocked at ports throughout the UK, including Avonmouth, Immingham, Liverpool and Tilbury. Bulk Minerals also ships pumice on request to ports throughout the UK and Ireland.
Due to this nationwide network Bulk Minerals possesses, it allows us to expertly direct quality products to manufacturing and major infrastructure projects throughout the construction industry. Deliveries of all materials are completed by our sister haulage company, Bulk Freight (Midlands) Ltd.
PFA & FBA
Sourced from the UK’s last remaining coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, Bulk Minerals Ltd distributes over 170,000 tons of power station ash products annually.
Fine Pulverized Fuel Ash (PFA), and the courser more granular Furnace Bottom Ash (FBA) are both products resulting from the combustion process used to produce electricity at coal-fired power stations.
With Bulk Minerals’ high quality ash supply only 6 miles from our operational base, our exclusive partnership with Ratcliffe began in 2013, and will continue after its decommission in September 2024 with the extensive stock remaining. However, our relationship with Ratcliffe stretches back to the 1970’s, where members of the Fred Sherwood Group began working with the station shortly after it was commissioned, and still are to this day.
With a central base, Bulk Minerals is situated in the Midlands on the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire border, enabling the company’s extensive UK-wide supply. Our exclusive partnership with Ratcliffe power station, enables undivided access to the ash products produced, and therefore, we can ensure a reliable supply chain for our customers.
Due to this nationwide network Bulk Minerals possesses, it allows us to expertly direct quality products to manufacturing and major infrastructure projects throughout the construction industry. Deliveries of our materials are completed by our sister haulage companies, Bulk Freight (Midlands) Ltd and Fred Sherwood & Sons (Transport) Ltd, via both articulated and rigid vehicles.
AGGREGATES
With the relationships and accounts that we have with quarries across the Midlands and beyond, Bulk Minerals Ltd provides a comprehensive aggregates sourcing and supply service throughout the country.
Deliveries of our materials are completed by our sister haulage companies, Bulk Freight (Midlands) Ltd and Fred Sherwood & Sons (Transport) Ltd, via both articulated and rigid vehicles.
