AusPozz™ High-Performance Metakaolin

Build Stronger. Smarter. Greener. with AusPozz™

Why AusPozz™ 

For more than 2,000 years, pozzolanic materials have been recognised for improving the durability and performance of concrete. AusPozz™ builds on these proven principles by combining one of Australia’s highest-purity kaolin resources with conventional processing to produce a high-reactivity metakaolin specifically engineered for modern low-carbon concrete applications.

Unlike conventional metakaolin, which can be costly to manufacture, AusPozz™ benefits from the naturally high (>90%) kaolinite content and exceptionally low impurity levels of the Toondoon deposit. This enables a simplified manufacturing process while maintaining outstanding pozzolanic performance.

The result is a high-performance supplementary cementitious material (SCM) designed to deliver:

  • Lower embodied carbon
  • Higher concrete performance
  • Reduced Portland cement consumption
  • Improved economic competitiveness
  • Reliable, Australian-based supply

Independently Validated Performance

AusPozz™ has undergone extensive evaluation through independent concrete specialists and NATA-accredited laboratories across a wide range of concrete mix designs and applications.

Testing has demonstrated that AusPozz™ can:

  • Replace up to 40% of General Purpose (GP) and Limestone (GL) cement in conventional concrete.
  • Deliver substantial improvements in compressive strength compared with conventional cement binders.
  • Reduce concrete shrinkage while improving long-term durability.
  • Optimise total binder content, delivering both economic and environmental benefits.
  • Perform across a diverse range of infrastructure, commercial, and specialist concrete applications.

AusPozz™ has been independently tested against the requirements of AS 3582.4:2022 for manufactured pozzolans, with results supporting its classification as a high-reactivity supplementary cementitious material.

Beyond laboratory validation, AusPozz™ has progressed to larger commercial concrete trials, demonstrating consistent performance under real-world construction conditions and providing confidence for future commercial deployment.

Performance Advantages

Independent testing has demonstrated that AusPozz™ provides significant technical and commercial advantages across a broad range of concrete applications.

Key benefits include:

  • Significant reduction in embodied carbon
  • Increased early-age and long-term compressive strength
  • Reduced total cement binder requirements
  • Improved durability and service life
  • Reduced drying shrinkage
  • Lower chloride permeability
  • Enhanced sulphate resistance
  • Mitigation of Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR)
  • Improved abrasion resistance
  • Reduced heat generation in large-volume concrete pours
  • Silica fume replacement in selected applications

Collectively, these characteristics enable designers and concrete producers to optimise performance, economic advantage and sustainability in major infrastructure and the built environment.

Supporting the Decarbonisation of Construction

Concrete remains the world’s most widely used construction material, and cement production accounts for a significant share of global industrial carbon emissions.

By partially replacing Portland cement with high-reactivity AusPozz™, concrete producers can materially reduce embodied carbon while maintaining or improving mechanical performance and durability.

Importantly, AusPozz™ not only reduces clinker content but also enables optimisation of total cementitious binder requirements, further reducing both carbon emissions and material costs.

As governments, infrastructure owners, and the construction industry accelerate the adoption of lower-carbon building materials, AusPozz™ provides an Australian-made solution that can support this transition at commercial scale.