Lixil Group

Lixil Group is a Japanese group of companies that manufactures building materials, plumbing fixtures and housing equipment, headquartered in Tokyo.
INAX is one of the major Lixil companies. Most of Lixil's plumbing fixtures are sold under the brand. Other Lixil companies include American Standard, Permasteelisa, Grohe, etc.

History

The company was formed in 2011 by the merger of Tostem Corp., INAX, Shin Nikkei, Sunwave and Toyo Exterior.
In the same year Lixil bought Permasteelisa, an Italian developer of curtain walls, for €575 million. Two years later Lixil bought American Standard Brands, a U.S. bathroom fixtures company for $542 million and in 2014 Grohe, the German bathroom fixtures company for €3.06 billion. It also started manufacturing in Andhra Pradesh, India.
On 6 November 2018, LIXIL announced a new partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bring what could be the world's first "reinvented toilet" for household use to pilot in at least two markets. This stems from the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge.

SaTo

Lixil markets water-saving toilets and related products under the brand "SaTo", short for "Safe Toilet". These products are marketed in various countries with plumbing infrastructure deficiencies, including Bangladesh, Uganda, Kenya, Haiti and India as of 2018.

Sponsorships

Lixil is the sponsor of the Lixil Cup, awarded from 2014 to 2016 to the champion team from the finals of Japan's Top League, which the nation's highest level rugby union competition.
The company also sponsors tennis player Kei Nishikori, and was a sponsor of the 2020 Olympic Games.
Following their predecessor company Tostem Corp's longstanding shirt sponsorship of the J.League football club, the Kashima Antlers, Lixil has continued this shirt sponsorship since 2011, when the merger with Tostem occurred.

Foundation

The LIXIL JS Foundation sponsors an annual architecture competition at universities to promote sustainable building technology. The student architecture prize is endowed with a total of $21,000. All houses are located in Taiki, Hokkaido.

	title	university	architect	students	site management	structural engineer	general contractor
2017		The Universita Indonesia	Mikhael Johanes	Lissa Christie, Lopez Surya, Nadia Amira, Kevin Romario
2016	infinite field	Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts	Anders Brix	Kazumasa Takada, Bas Spaanderman, Scarlett Emma Hessian, Jesse Thomas, Benjamin Hock Yuu Tan, Konstantinos Fetsis	Kengo Kuma and Associates	Oak Structural Design	Takahashi Construction Company
2015	inverted house	Oslo School of Architecture and Design	Raphael Zuber, Neven Fuchs, Thomas McQuillan	Laura Cristea, Mari Hellum, Stefan Hurrell, Niklas Lenander	Kengo Kuma and Associates	Oak Structural Design
2014	Nest We Grow	University of California		Hsiu-Wei Chang, Fanzheng Dong, Hsin-Yu Chen, Yan Xin Huang, Baxter Smith, Max Edwards	Kengo Kuma and Associates
2013	Horizon House	Harvard University Graduate School of Design	Mark Mulligan, Thomas Sherman, Ana Garcia Puyol, Carlos Cerezo Davila	Carlos Cerezo Davila, Matthew Conway, Robert Daurio, Ana Garcia Puyol, Mariano Gomez Luque, Natsuma Imai, Takuya Iwamura, and Thomas Sherman	Kengo Kuma and Associates
2012	Même
2011	barn house	Keio University Japan	Saikawa Takumi, Sano Satoshi, Eureka Architects und Co+Labo	Millica Muminović, Hashida Wataru, Shinohara Masato, Kato Yoshiaki, Sasamura Yoshihiro mit Darko und Vuk Radović, Komatsu Katsuhito, Kobayashi Kosuke, Kanemaru Mayumi	Kengo Kuma Architecture Associates, Komatsu Katsuhito