
From a two-spa order to a million spas.
Caldera never made pools, saunas or anything else. Fifty years on one product is why the seats fit, the shells last and the parts are still there when you need them.
- 1976
Custom Fiber Engineering, a small fibreglass shop in El Cajon, California, builds a couple of custom spas for a customer. They sell faster than anything else in the shop.
- 1977
David Ingram buys out his partners and launches Caldera Spas as a hot-tub company.
- 1999
Watkins Wellness, the Vista, California company behind Hot Spring and Endless Pools, buys Caldera. Engineering, testing and warranty move to the largest spa factory in the world.
- 2019
The FreshWater Salt System arrives: sanitiser generated from salt, water that lasts up to a year, on every Utopia and Paradise.
- Today
Four series, twenty-three models, designed and built in California and made in North America. In Nerja since the first showroom opened, with the whole range on the floor.












