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Warwick SASCo acquired by Karnell Group AB
Warwick SASCo has announced good news for their family-owned business. On 2nd April 2025, the company was acquired by Karnell Group AB (Sweden).
Darby Booth, who will continue as Managing Director under the new ownership, said the investment is good news for the future growth and longevity of the business.
An established quality leader of reusable medical polyware for over four decades, the purchase is a positive indication of Warwick SASCo’s industry position. It testifies to the strength of relationships both in the United Kingdom and overseas with both supply partners and customers.
Their product range for specific healthcare sectors is widely known in hospitals, sterile services, operating surgeries, and care homes in over 75 countries.
Swedish based Karnell Group said they welcome Warwick SASCo to their portfolio of small to medium sized, niche product producing companies. Petter Moldenius, CEO of Karnell, said “Warwick SASCo is a strong addition to Karnell. It’s expertise in reusable medical hollowware complements our business and we see great potential for further growth. We are excited to welcome the talented team at Warwick SASCo into the Karnell Group.”
With decentralized decision-making, Karnell provides entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses a long-term investment model.
The company’s business concept is to identify and acquire companies with an attractive financial profile and develop their expertise, customer value and product expansion. The group consists of 17 companies in Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom. Karnell Group AB is a publicly listed company on Nasdaq Stockholm.
For more information contact:
Janine Farmer, Commercial Manager
Tel: +44 (0)1926 422427
Marketing update 3
The last few months of 2024 saw great marketing activity from Warwick SASCo’s team and our family of worldwide distributors.
See a few of the successes here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/warwick-sasco-9a9a55105/recent-activity/all/
Visit us at Arab Health 2025
A busy Sterile Services Conference in Northern Thailand
What a lot of interest at Medica Co stand on 8-9 December 2024!
The exhibition took place at service innovation building Thammasat University, Lampang center, Lampang province.
Well done team for explaining the benefits of plastic in sterile services to the Thai CSSDs.
Thank you for the new orders for gallipots soaking containers following the show.
Visit us at Medica 2024
We are at Medica 11st to 14th November 2024.
This year we are trying a new location.
Warwick SASCo to exhibit at MEDICA 2024 with Medilink UK – Medilink
Visit us at the UK Pavilion – Hall 15, Stand A02 (Medilink Pods)
Email Janine@sasco.co.uk for a meeting.
We look forward to seeing you in Dusseldorf.
Marketing update 2
It’s been a busy year so far for Warwick SASCo and our family of international distributors. From the Middle East on page 1 to Greek Gods on page 2, here is just a snippet of what we’ve been doing:
Arab Health 2024
Review of 2023
It’s been a busy year for SASCo’ s distributors! We enjoyed meeting end users and
promoted the benefits of polyware with our fabulous partners worldwide.
Ask us for a copy of our new quarterly newsletter. See if you are featured!

Bone fragments found in ‘clean’ surgical tool
Surgeons at Brooke Army Medical Center rejected 49 contaminated sets over 41 days. They said “Dirty instruments should not make it to the operating room” as operations were cancelled and trauma cases stopped.
Read the full story in San Antonio Express News here
BAMC surgeons speak out about contaminated surgical tools (expressnews.com)