title: Caroma
text: # Caroma
  
  Caroma (Caroma Dorf) is an Australian designer and distributor of bathroom products. Caroma was established in 1941 by Hungarian-born Charles Rothauser, and since closing its last factory in 2017 now sources all products from third-party overseas manufacturers. Caroma is a subsidiary of GWA International Limited, and introduced the world's first two-button dual flush toilet system. The company self-distributes within Australia and abroad sells through distributors such as Sustainable Solutions International in North America and Sanlamere in the United Kingdom.
  
  The company was established in 1941 with a factory at Norwood, an inner eastern suburb of Adelaide. The company announced its intention to close down manufacturing in Australia on 8 October 2014. The factory at Wetherill Park in Sydney closed in 2014. It finally closed the Norwood factory on 24 February 2017. Manufacture now occurs in Malaysia, China and Europe.
  
  ## Caroma Dorf companies
  
  The Caroma Dorf group of companies offers a range of bathroom, kitchen and laundry products from a number of brands.
  
  * Fowler – range of toilets and basins for bathrooms.
  * Dorf – Offers a range of products for bathrooms, kitchens and laundries.
  * Clark – Clark has a range of kitchen sinks.
  * Epure – Epure is Clark's expensive range which offers a variety of kitchen sinks.
  * Radiant – products for kitchen and laundries.
  * Irwell – A range of tapware products.
  * Stylus – Best known for its baths and spas, Stylus also offers a range of cheap toilets, basins, mixers, taps, showers and bathroom accessories.
  * Dux Hot Water
  
  ## Innovations
  
  * The first in the world to introduce the two-button dual flush system in 1982
  * The first in the world to introduce the 6/3L dual flush cistern
  * The first to introduce the 4.5/3L dual flush cistern through Smartflush technology
  * The first company to gain a WELS 5 Star rating for toilet suites
  * The first company to achieve an Australian WELS 6 Star rating for urinals
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Australian Design Award for Excellence in Australian Design in the Housing & Building category (2009) – Caroma Invisi Series II Toilet Suite
  * Australian Design Awards for Excellence in Sustainable Design (2007) -Caroma H2Zero Cube Urinal
  * Australian Design Award for Excellence in Australian Design in the Housing and Building category (2005)- Smartflush Toilet Suite Range
  