All Cornilleau indoor tables are guaranteed for 3 years on both the table top and undercarriage and delivery is FREE to most of the UK.
Cornilleau tables are manufactured using high quality materials and processes. The folding mechanism on the majority of their indoor table tennis tables is incredibly safe and easy for even children to operate. We have no hesitation recommending Cornilleau to both serious enthusiasts and hobby players as their tables range from entry level to ITTF competition standard.
Table Tennis is the world's biggest indoor participation sport, enjoyed by all ages and abilities, which is why Cornilleau manufacture a wide range of tables to suit every level of play.
Please bear in mind that indoor tables are designed for use in a heated, insulated building. If you are planning on using the table in direct sunlight or storing it in an outbuilding or garage we would suggest you purchase a table from our range of outdoor tables which are specifically designed for this purpose.
If you are having trouble choosing which table is right for you, and would like some advice, please call us on 01371 875000 or e-mail [email protected]. and we will be more than happy to help.
French-made indoor tables for games rooms, clubs and ITTF competition halls. Learn the brand’s history, SkilTop playing surfaces, and why UK families and players keep buying Cornilleau.
Cornilleau is a French manufacturer based in Bonneuil-les-Eaux in the Oise region. The business began in 1946 as a joinery and cabinet-making workshop founded by Emile Cornilleau. From the late 1960s it specialised in table tennis tables, and in 1969 it produced its first production run of 300 tables. Alongside its well-known outdoor range, Cornilleau builds indoor leisure tables and ITTF-approved competition models for clubs, schools and serious home players.
Indoor Cornilleau tables cover recreational play through to club and competition use. Long manufacturer warranties are standard across the range, and spare parts support is a deliberate part of the brand’s durability promise. The company still designs and manufactures in France, with a strong focus on safety, bounce quality, folding ergonomics and practical storage.
Many folding systems on the wider market now look familiar because Cornilleau set much of that direction. Its COMPACT Technology folding concept and later DSI locking system remain useful reference points when you compare indoor tables for home, school or club use in the UK.
“Sport is ever progressing. This is why we must continuously improve the performance of our products. With this goal in mind, Cornilleau have developed a new collection of table tennis tables to meet the very highest standards, offering you what you have a right to expect today: quality of play, comfort of use, safety, solidity and design. Cornilleau are convinced that their tables will be in high demand due to their undeniable superior technical features.”
Michel Zany, Cornilleau
If you are researching an indoor Cornilleau before buying, these are the points that matter most:
High-density wooden playing surfaces built for consistent indoor bounce. SkilTop multi-layer finishes on competition models for a durable, high-quality top. ITTF-approved competition tables for club and tournament play. Safe one-person folding with multiple locking points on rollaway models. Made in France production rather than anonymous imported generics.
For most UK indoor buyers, the core decision is leisure versus competition: top thickness, bounce quality, whether you need ITTF approval, and how easily the table folds and stores in a games room, garage conversion or club hall.
Table-Tennis-Tables.co.uk has been an approved Cornilleau retailer since 1998. We are the UK’s longest-established specialist Cornilleau table retailer: that means decades of hands-on experience with the ranges, folding systems, warranties, spare parts and the practical questions that come with UK homes, schools and clubs.
Cornilleau itself has been present in the UK market since 1982 and the UK is one of its most important export markets. Whether you want honest model advice, free mainland delivery options or installation in many areas, you are dealing with a specialist that has sold and supported Cornilleau tables for more than 28 years.
These features affect safety, bounce and how easy an indoor table is to live with at home or in a club.
The DSI folding system is designed to lock the table safely, including on less-than-perfect floors. Cornilleau’s DSI approach uses four safety bolts, with multiple locking points in both the playing and storage positions (commonly described as eight locking points in each position). An ergonomic handle unlocks the mechanism so one person can open and close the table with confidence.
COMPACT Technology, introduced in the mid-1990s, changed how foldaway tables store. With the two halves nested closer together, the folded unit is more stable and less likely to tip. It also reduces the gap between panels, which helps stop a child getting between the tops when the table is folded. For UK homes, schools and clubs, that storage footprint and safety profile are still major reasons people choose Cornilleau.
Indoor bounce depends on a quality wooden top and a carefully built finish. Cornilleau’s SkilTop treatment creates a strong, long-lasting and attractive playing surface through a multi-layer process:
When you compare indoor models, pair the surface finish with top thickness, frame quality, folding system and whether you need ITTF approval for club or competition use. Those factors together decide whether a table is fine for family games or ready for serious play.
Cornilleau tables with the SkilTop finish include:
Key milestones in Cornilleau’s journey from a French joinery workshop to a leading table tennis brand, including indoor competition tables and its place in the UK market.
Emile Cornilleau sets up a joinery and cabinet-making workshop in an old agricultural building beside the main road in Bonneuil-les-Eaux (Oise). The firm takes on significant post-war reconstruction work in Breteuil and nearby villages.
Pierre Cornilleau (Emile’s son) joins after technical college in Beauvais. Alongside building sites, the company adds higher-volume industrial wood products such as bottle crates, automotive pallets, aviation casings and tile-drying racks. By the end of the decade the workforce is around 20 people.
A neighbouring firm, Cotexunion, is approached about supplying table tennis tables. Cornilleau researches the project as building work slows and Pierre pushes toward industrial manufacturing. Cotexunion supplies steel bases; Cornilleau handles the playing surface, packing and marketing. In 1969 Cornilleau builds three prototypes, then fulfils an order of 300 tables linked to BHV Paris for Christmas, exhibits at its first sports trade show, and invests heavily in buildings and surface-treatment machinery.
The company is established as a public limited company. The original joinery trade is wound down and replaced by table tennis table manufacturing.
Pierre assumes overall management. Through the 1970s Cornilleau grows on strong value for money, initially selling heavily through hypermarkets, then expanding into sports shops and mail-order channels while competing with market leaders of the era such as Donnay.
Cornilleau partners with French champion Jacques Secretin to strengthen competition-table credibility and brand recognition. Competition models associated with Secretin help move Cornilleau from “good value manufacturer” toward a recognised sports brand.
Cornilleau becomes leader of the French market and invests in automated playing-surface treatment for European quality expectations. Multiple table models receive International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) approval. The company exhibits at ISPO in Munich.
Cornilleau pioneers accessible outdoor table tennis tables using solid laminate tops capable of withstanding weather. The same year, table tennis appears as a full Olympic medal sport at the Seoul Games. Outdoor play becomes central to the brand’s identity and to how most recreational buyers use a table at home.
Michel Zany joins to strengthen sales and marketing, later becoming commercial director and steering the brand toward specialist sports retail and international markets rather than pure hypermarket volume.
Olympic silver medallist Jean-Philippe Gatien signs with Cornilleau. Later the same year he becomes World Champion in Gothenburg. His involvement supports competition-range development and brand visibility at the top of the sport.
Cornilleau introduces its COMPACT folding concept, combining tighter storage, improved stability and safer folded geometry. The innovation helps redefine mid and premium leisure tables and remains a cornerstone of the modern Cornilleau outdoor range.
Cornilleau intensifies export management with the aim of European leadership. The same year, Table-Tennis-Tables.co.uk begins as a UK table tennis specialist and goes on to become an approved Cornilleau retailer: today the UK’s longest-established specialist Cornilleau table retailer.
Cornilleau launches a broader range of bats, balls and accessories associated with Jean-Philippe Gatien, aiming to supply a fuller table tennis offer beyond tables alone.
Cornilleau reworks its table range with stronger safety and design focus, refreshes visual identity, and steps up event presence including European Championships sponsorship activity and a major exhibition presence at the World Championships in Paris Bercy. Michel Zany later becomes company president after Pierre Cornilleau’s retirement.
Cornilleau enters the US trade-show circuit (including The Super Show in Orlando), partners with Michelin on the polymer Tacteo outdoor leisure bat (2005), and continues growth across Europe, the United States, Russia and the Middle East. In 2007 it sponsors the World Team Cup in Germany.
When Sport England supported the high-profile Ping! London public table tennis project, Cornilleau outdoor tables were chosen for quality and durability in urban settings. Around the same period Cornilleau is reported as exporting to dozens of countries and consolidating its position as a major European outdoor-table brand. Competition-player support also grows, with athletes such as Simon Gauzy joining Team Cornilleau around 2010.
After 2010 Cornilleau continued to develop competition and leisure ranges alongside its outdoor work. For UK indoor customers, the practical takeaway is continuity: quality wooden tops, SkilTop finishes on competition models, safe folding, long warranties and spare parts remain the buying criteria, even as model names change.
Cornilleau launches the Park outdoor table as a durable alternative to concrete public tables, aimed at local authorities and high-traffic outdoor sites. Heavy load capacity and vandal-resistant design are central to the brief. These tables are now a common sight in parks and school grounds in France and internationally.
The Crossover outdoor range underlines Cornilleau’s push to combine function with more deliberate industrial design, continuing the shift from purely utilitarian garden tables toward products people are happy to leave on show.
Marking roughly fifty years since its first tables, Cornilleau expands into weather-resistant outdoor pool with the Hyphen billiard table after multi-year development. The same period sees further diversification (including trampolines) and the opening of a US commercial subsidiary as international structure grows.
Following outdoor pool, Cornilleau grows a designer games furniture offer branded Play-Style, including outdoor foosball (developed with French specialist Stella) and convertible ping-pong concepts. The UK remains a priority export market; Cornilleau establishes a UK commercial subsidiary to sit closer to British customers while continuing to manufacture in France.
Helene Lupette becomes CEO, working alongside president Michel Zany. She previously held senior operational roles covering purchasing, supply chain, R&D, production and related industrial projects, continuing the company’s long pattern of leadership from within.
2026 marks eighty years since Emile Cornilleau opened the Bonneuil-les-Eaux workshop in 1946. The company remains a French manufacturer of table tennis tables and related games products, still associated with outdoor durability, folding safety and Made in France production. In the UK, Table-Tennis-Tables.co.uk continues as the longest-established specialist Cornilleau table retailer, advising customers on current outdoor, indoor and competition ranges.
Cornilleau designs and manufactures in France, with its historic base in Bonneuil-les-Eaux in the Oise region. That Made in France production chain is a core part of the brand’s identity and aftercare model.
The company was founded as a joinery in 1946. It moved into table tennis at the end of the 1960s and produced its first production tables in 1969, including an early order of 300 tables associated with BHV Paris.
Because the indoor range covers family games rooms through to serious club play. Higher-end models use SkilTop multi-layer wooden surfaces for consistent bounce, many fold safely for storage, and selected competition tables carry ITTF approval. Long warranties and spare parts availability also matter when a table will see regular use at home, school or club.
SkilTop is Cornilleau’s multi-layer indoor top finish: a high-density three-layer wooden chipboard with acrylic coating and sanding, UV acrylic lacquer, polyurethane lacquer and UV acrylic ink. It is designed for a strong, long-lasting and high-quality playing surface on competition indoor models such as the 540, 610, 640, 740 and 850.
ITTF approval means the table meets International Table Tennis Federation standards for competition use. If you play club matches or want tournament-ready bounce and dimensions, look for ITTF-approved Cornilleau indoor competition models rather than a basic leisure table.
COMPACT is Cornilleau’s folding storage concept from 1995. The folded halves sit closer together, improving stability and reducing the chance of a child entering the gap between panels. It remains a defining feature of many Cornilleau rollaway tables.
DSI is Cornilleau’s safety locking and folding system. It is designed to lock securely and to let one person open and close the table using an ergonomic unlock handle, with multiple locking points in play and storage positions.
Table-Tennis-Tables.co.uk has been an approved Cornilleau retailer since 1998 and is the UK’s longest-established specialist Cornilleau table retailer. We provide impartial, no-commission advice, product knowledge built over decades, and aftercare support on the tables we sell.
No. Outdoor tables are a major part of the brand, but Cornilleau also makes indoor leisure and ITTF competition tables, plus public Park tables and, more recently, outdoor pool, foosball and other Play-Style games furniture. Manufacturing remains rooted in France.
