The Elenite Palette

Our solid surface, Elenite, which we developed in partnership with Meganite, was conceived as a combination of natural inputs and industrial manufacturing. We worked together to build something different on the same production process used for other acrylic solid surfaces, as a first shared step towards a lower carbon material.

Every colourway starts from the natural pigments milled into the material, soft ochres, walnut dust, and a deep, rich carbon black. Because the pigment runs through the whole surface, the colour reads deep and non-translucent, with a warm, matte finish. The wider palette takes its cue from clay, stone, and cool earth, so the range stays tonal and sits easily with the other materials here, raw timber, lime plaster, and aged brick.

The surface is not flat colour. A fine speckle runs through every shade, drawn from the natural by-products milled into the mix, including bamboo fibre and walnut shell. Elenite is the first solid surface to build organic inputs like these into the material itself. They behave a little like the aggregate in terrazzo, breaking up the colour and catching the light, but at a much smaller scale, so the effect reads as texture rather than pattern.

Two colourways show the span of the palette. Ashbee Beige holds the speckle pale and close in tone. Ruskin White warms it, with flecks of shell and fibre that are easier to pick out.

None of this changes how the surface works. Elenite is stain-resistant, hard-wearing, and easy to fabricate, and it performs to the standard specifiers expect from a premium solid surface, across worktops, islands, and splashbacks. The lower carbon sits in the composition, not in a trade-off on the spec.