Pure Icelandic Pumice
The Hekla Pumice Advantage
Born from a massive eruption over three millennia ago, our pumice from Mount Hekla offers exceptional qualities:
- Ultra-Lightweight: With a loose dry bulk density as low as 260−490 kg/m3, it's up to four times lighter than typical sand or gravel, reducing weight in your applications.
- Unparalleled Purity: Naturally "washed" by centuries of rain, it's free of salts, organics, crystalline silica, and other impurities. This neutral, inert material ensures no unwanted chemical reactions.
- Sustainable Sourcing: Easily scooped from surface deposits with minimal processing, our pumice requires no energy-intensive kilns, offering a truly green aggregate with a minimal environmental footprint.
About Steypustöðin
Steypustöðin is a leading Icelandic producer of mineral products with over 50 years of expertise. With our pumice processing, we bring Iceland’s finest pumice to the world.
We pride ourselves on:
- Quality Control: Rigorous in-house testing and full control over our supply chains.
- Environmental Product Declaration (EPD): Our Icelandic Pumice has an exceptional low environmental impact, which we documents with third-party controlled EPDs.
- Proven Experience: A strong track record supplying materials to demanding projects.
- CE certification for the EU market.
Applications of Icelandic Pumice
Hekla pumice's unique combination of low weight, porosity, strength, and chemical inertness makes it incredibly versatile. Here are some typical uses of the Icelandic pumice.
Green Roofs & Landscaping
Our Icelandic pumice is super lightweight, ensuring a thicker growth layer can be planted, and the large pore volume ensures optimal retention of plant available water and air. The skeletal structure is stable over time.
Horticulture & Soilless Growing
Our Pumice retains and anchor roots optimally and improves both oxygenation and absorbing and releasing of water and nutrients, resulting in higher root growth and yield.
Heat-Resistant Materials
Our Icelandic pumice has a proven record in insulating firebricks, with high insulation values. Environmentally friendly and easy to handle in production with stable properties.
Lightweight Concrete
Using our Icelandic Pumice, you can create structural concrete up to 50% lighter that meets EN 13055 and EN 206 standards. It's the ideal choice for lightweight, consistent quality concrete.
Road constructions
Pumice is increasingly being used in road construction for various purposes like enhancing strength and load-bearing capacity, moisture control to prevent soil instability and to reduce soil plasticity.
Why Choose Us?
Because we care and because we supply a unique Pumice to the world.
The Unique Pumice Advantages
When you choose Steypustöðin, you gain:
- Exceptionally low Densit and high porosity – unique properties for all applications.
- Consistent quality - that provides consistent performance for our customers.
- Pure and Clean: Free of contaminants, ensuring no unwanted chemical reactions
- Verified EPD attests to low environmental impact and abundant, natural resources.
- Quality Assured: CE-marked and rigorously tested to comply with EN 13055.
- Low distribution cost because of the unique low density.
Contact Us
Ready to elevate your products with Icelandic pumice?
Email: steypustodin@steypustodin.is
Phone: +354 440 0400
Head Office: Malarhöfði 10, 110 Reykjavík, Iceland
Our sales and specialists provide custom quotations, technical support, and logistics planning for global shipments. We welcome site visits to our Hekla pumice fields and processing facilities in Iceland.
We would be happy to show you around in the quarries in the Icelandic nature and discuss how we can elevate your products with Icelandic pumice.
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