About Us
Our team has been involved in the worktop industry since the early 1990s, with experience in all aspects, from manufacture to fabrication and installation. Initially, this was as part of a wider fixed furniture and equipment portfolio but over the course of a decade, the focus concentrated on worktops which led to KARONIA’s incorporation in 2005.
To begin with, KARONIA supplied OEM worktop solutions to a variety of companies throughout the UK, along with a contract to supply acrylic sheet products to a leading building materials distributor in Australia.
With our previous experience using and working with other branded acrylic worktops, we had developed strong opinions on how a worktop product should perform, and ultimately, we aspired to develop and manufacture our own branded product ranges.
Our ambition was realised in 2010 with the launch of our pioneering 25mm thick MISTRAL worktops at the KBB Exhibition. While competitors were continuing down the path of less actual surface material and more chipboard substrate, our pure material format offered far greater benefits to trade and retail customers alike. MISTRAL quickly became a market-leading brand.
"Now in our 20th year of business, the company has gone from strength-to-strength. We have continued reinvesting our success to build our fabrication and warehousing infrastructure, adding to our capabilities and the benefits we can offer all our customers.
Importantly, KARONIA remains a wholly family-owned business so, in addition to our highly professional operational standards, we also retain a dynamic decision-making process that has proved invaluable to both our Distribution and Projects customers."
Stephen Pickup, Chairman