Tomoana has developed as an important food processing and allied industry area.  The industrial zone at Tomoana has become fully committed for this purpose.

The Tomoana Food Industry Zone has been introduced to allow for further expansion of compatible activities, to enable efficient and effective utilisation of existing infrastructure and to encourage the continuation of land based primary production as the zone develops over time. It is expected that Tomoana will further consolidate as a major food processing and allied industry area in Hastings District.

The Tomoana Food Hub is a forward thinking centre for food and beverage processing and related industries located in some of the most fertile land in the world.

It is an industrial business park established to allow food related businesses realise the benefits of clustering and co-location.

The Tomoana Food Hub aims to set a standard for food production activity in New Zealand, where an integrated and well controlled supply chain and close proximity to seasonal produce are linked to compelling brand stories aimed at gaining higher value for our products overseas.

It has some of the best water in the world running through the artesian aquifers under the Heretaunga Plains. The Tomoana Food Hub is the best place for food and beverage businesses to locate their production facility and secure supply to their global customers.

Benefits

Locating on the Tomoana Food Hub can realise real benefits;

• Creating a cluster environment where businesses cooperate to reduce waste, efficiently share resources, knowledge, and help achieve sustainability.
• Collaboration where the waste/by-products of one business may form the inputs for another business
• Shared productivity gains from locating adjacent to a third party logistics provider
• Information, help and full engagement in the re-location processes including building, water, and waste resource consents.
• Waste water discharge connection on site. By comparison, costs that are twenty times cheaper than Auckland
• A good supply of skilled and unskilled labour
• 18km to Port of Napier
• No unsightly neighbours due to the special zoning – views of the Kaweka Ranges!
• Landscaping and planting on property perimeter and along roads.
• High quality and efficient logistics services through Tomoana Warehousing Ltd, also located on the Tomoana Food Hub site – moving containers to and from ports throughout New Zealand.

Located adjacent to the Tomoana Food Hub, Tomoana Warehousing is a leading transport, warehousing and third party logistics provider to importers, exporters and manufacturers nationwide. TWL has a large fleet of modern trucks which have a wide range of capability.