GrillKing and WoodPower are a production in Almaty, an international team, and a founder personally accountable for the result.
Dan Ball founded GrillKing in 2020. WoodPower has made thermally modified timber in Almaty since 2020; Dan acquired it in 2025, bringing both under one roof. We keep the full cycle — from log to finished board and from drawing to delivered kitchen — because you can only truly answer for what you make yourself.
The team is international: Americans, Germans, Britons, Kazakhstanis. Engineers, welders, joiners — and the service people who will visit your home on the care program for years. A meeting with the founder — in English, or through the team — is possible: premium starts with people talking to you, not a logo.
“You’re truly not going to find another company like this in all of Central Asia. No one is going to make you such a premium kitchen and take care of you so well.”
Client · Almaty
There is no sales department here that hands you over to an installation team. The people in these photographs are the ones who come out to measure, build the kitchen, and come back a year later with oil.
No stock photography and no sales department. Welders, joiners, engineers and installers who work in our shop in Almaty — and the same people who come out to measure your backyard and come back a year later to service it.
Shot on the shop floor, winter 2026. Some of them have been at the bench for twenty years.
This is the strangest and the most important thing about this company: in a production workshop in Almaty, engineers from the United States, Britain, Germany and Kazakhstan work side by side. Teams like this normally assemble in Munich or in California, not here.
Manufacturing and premium-client experience: what a handover standard looks like, what counts as a defect, and why a guarantee has to be written rather than described. The habit of iterating comes from there too: render, drawing, prototype, survey — and only then metal.
The welders, joiners and installers who actually build it. They also know this climate: minus forty in winter, plus forty in summer, and ground that moves. A design drawn without that knowledge comes apart in its second year.
Engineering documentation and tolerances. Every junction exists on paper before it exists in steel — with its dimension, its gap, and what to do when it doesn't close.
Service as an obligation rather than a gesture. A maintenance schedule, response times, and contract wording you can hold us to later.
And the Kazakh welders, joiners and installers who build all of it — and who stay your service team for years after handover. The international half of the team sets the standard. The local half is what makes it achievable.
We hear this at nearly every meeting, and it is the right question to ask. A kitchen at this level — welded 304 stainless, restaurant-grade ventilation built for the project, granite, thermo-karagach, all of it drawn for one particular yard — costs several times more in the United States. Not fifty per cent more.
The reason isn't the materials, and it isn't that we cut corners. Our steel is Turkish, not cheap Chinese stock. The reason is the economics of labor. Skilled handwork and one-off fabrication cost incomparably less in Kazakhstan than in America — at the same standard of execution, provided someone is there to set that standard. We happen to be the people who brought the standard and stayed to hold it.
Which is why something is possible here that few can afford in America: drawing every kitchen individually, instead of assembling it from a catalog of stock modules.
