The CARAT Story
From 1989 to the present
The CARAT company history began in 1989, when kitchen design on the computer was still in its infancy. The demands on professional design have grown steadily since then, and with them the quality and range of CARAT products.
Discover the most important milestones of the CARAT story!
2024
In Level 2, animations make the CARAT emotion graphics even more dynamic, making it significantly easier for potential customers to make a purchase decision.
2024
To ensure that the industry sector continues to benefit from solutions with real added value in the future, CARAT labs was founded as an independent unit. This unit tests how artificial intelligence and other technologies can be utilised in software in a meaningful way.
2024
With CARAT productinfo, designers and salespersons benefit from quick access to extensive and high-quality additional information from manufacturers, directly in CARAT.
2023
Vivid 3D surfaces and brilliant structures: With level 1 of CARAT emotion, CARAT heralds the start of the graphics of the future.
2022
CARAT TAK (technical order check) supports kitchen salespersons in automatically detecting planning errors and thus avoiding incorrect orders.
2022
The perfect digitalised solution for controlling assembly and service appointments is launched: CARAT service
2022
With CARAT meeting, video consultation with end customers can be started for the first time directly from CARAT
2021
CARAT cloud is launched, offering the right solution for every phase of the kitchen sales process
2021
CARAT live block calculation enables kitchen calculation in real time for the first time
2020
CARAT kitchen+space enables kitchen and living space design in one system
2020
Launch of the unique site measuring app easyroom, which allows end customers to easily measure rooms in a playful way
2019
CARAT introduces VR real-time technology for virtual kitchen presentation
2019
CARAT equips the CARAT planner with artificial intelligence, the industry first Kitchen Assistant
2018
CARAT launches the CARAT academy, a new e-learning portal
2018
Foundation of an own separate company in France: CARAT France SAS
2017
The app CARAT view VR allows end customers to admire their kitchen with a unique 360° effect on their smartphone or tablet
2017
Launch of New Design, the technically and visually new user interface
2016
After having opened up new markets in Asia since 2010, CARAT opens a subsidiary in China in 2016
2014
CARAT introduces the outstanding presentation technology "Raytracer" for razor-sharp surface structures
2010
With CARAT Cinema, 3D presentation enters the kitchen studio
2009
Thanks to CARAT planner, end customers are actively involved in the designing process
2003
Initial certification and follow-up certifications in 2013 and 2020
2002
CARAT becomes the European market leader in kitchen design software
2001
CARAT is the first design software to introduce electronic order processing
1992
Everything is so nicely colourful here! CARAT becomes colour
1989
Foundation of CARAT and market launch of the design software in an MS-DOS environment