About Us

caroma | Design for life - GWA Bathrooms & Kitchens

For over 60 years people have been using GWA Bathrooms & Kitchens products (formerly Caroma Dorf) in their everyday lives. Every day, in some way, people come in contact with a GWA Bathrooms & kitchens product. It was their flagship brand Caroma who developed the world’s first dual flush toilet, saving millions of litres of water each year.

Smart Thinking

Our Research & Development team has created an international reputation for innovative thinking. Think world’s first plastic toilet cistern. Think dual flush technology. Think GWA Bathrooms & Kitchens.

Continually Solving

When you install a GWA Bathrooms & Kitchens brand tap, shower or toilet you are installing a product designed to respond to society’s changing needs. If it’s not environmentally conscious, it’s not from GWA Bathrooms & Kitchens.

Always Evolving

Bathroom, kitchen and laundry products need to be desirable, practical and functional. At GWA Bathrooms & Kitchens, products are designed and manufactured to be reliable, for years to come.

GWA Bathrooms & Kitchens is a wholly owned subsidiary of GWA International Limited; a Brisbane-based Australian managed company, with diverse interests in the building products industry with related companies including Dux Hot Water and Gainsborough Door Furniture. GWA employs more than 2000 people. The company known today as GWA Bathrooms & Kitchens, was founded in Adelaide in 1941 by Charles Rothauser. His technological innovation was the creation of the world’s first transfer injection moulder. In 1956 Charles Rothauser created the all-plastic cistern. It won the first of many awards for Caroma including the FH Edwards Laurel in 1956.

GWA Bathrooms & Kitchens today has a portfolio of a number of well known Australian bathroom and kitchen brands such as Caroma, Fowler, Stylus, Dorf, Radiant, Clark, Epure, Hansa and KWC