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Robots help produce high quality and eco-friendly sanitary ware in China

7/18/2014

2014-07-17 - Supor Kitchen & Bath lowered costs and raised productivity while manufacturing products that are free from health risks.

The fact that lead is poisonous to humans has been known for years. Its presence in water can be a problem for infants whose diets consist of baby formula powder and water. From its inception, Supor Kitchen & Bath in China's Liaoning Province has been aware that manufacturing faucets with lead content is bad for people's health.
This led the company to seek out solutions aimed at reducing the lead content in its products, and eventually deciding to manufacture lead-free products. Supor's research suggested that stainless steel was the right material with which to create products to combat this clear health hazard, and today the company's key product is the leadfree faucet.

"Before the 1980s, Chinese people used iron faucets," says Jake Zhao, General Manager of Supor Kitchen & Bath. "Since the 80s, well-known sanitary ware companies, such as American Standard, Kohler and TOTO, entered China to market their brass faucets." According to Zhao, the result was that most faucets in the Chinese market were made of brass which has a lead content that generally ranges from 3 to 6 percent.

Due to the health issues related to lead poisoning and new regulations that ban the use of lead in drinking water, particularly in the US where Supor sells many of its products, Zhao says that the company's decision helped the it stay ahead of the game. All of the company's faucets are now made of stainless steel, reflecting consumer demand for safer, environmentally-friendly products.

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