PR Newswire
December 28, 2012 Friday 9:00 AM EST
Delta Faucet Marks 58 Years of Innovation
Delta Faucet continues to pave the way for technological innovations
in the kitchen and bath
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 28, 2012
Since founder Alex Manoogian developed the plumbing industry’s first
single-handle washerless ball valve faucet in 1954, Delta® products
have been fueled by thoughtful innovation. The brand’s commitment to
designing products that improve the way people interact with water has
led to a robust collection of award-winning technologies and
water-saving features, including its unmatched Touch2O® Technology,
which, after nearly five years on the market, continues to reinvent
the way consumers interact with their faucets.
An Armenian immigrant who established himself as a young entrepreneur
in the 1920s, Manoogian was vocal about his dedication to superior
craftsmanship, design and leadership; values that the brand continues
to uphold today. According to him, products that do not offer
consumers superior performance and a better value are not worth
selling. It’s through this mandate that Delta Faucet upholds its
mission to help people find smarter ways to experience water.
“Alex Manoogian is more than just the founder of the Delta brand, he
is the inspiration behind everything we do today,” said Bob Rodenbeck,
director of research and development, Delta Faucet Company. “As a
company born out of innovation, we take pride in continuing to
innovate and lead in the areas of new technology development, consumer
research and design.”
Born from ethnographic research, Touch2O Technology addresses a desire
to improve the way consumers interact with their kitchen faucet,
affording them precise and reliable control to activate the flow of
water exactly when and where it’s needed – even when hands are full or
messy. With Touch2O Technology, users can simply tap anywhere on the
spout, hub or handle of the faucet to turn on and off the water
stream.
The evolution of Touch2O Technology since it was first introduced in
2008 echoes the same process Manoogian followed in developing and
expanding his single-handle washerless line in the 1950s and beyond.
In 2011, Touch2O Technology was made available on lavatory faucets and
was also expanded in the form of Touch2O.xt(TM) Technology, which, in
addition to touch activation, also offers hands-free functionality in
an area of the home where proximity sensing is more desired. Today,
the Delta brand offers eight kitchen suites and three bathroom suites
featuring Touch2O Technology, as well as two bathroom suites with
Touch2O.xt Technology.
Another kitchen technology, the EZ Anchor(TM) mounting assembly, was
developed out of the desire to make the faucet installation process
less cumbersome. With the EZ Anchor system, the kitchen faucet can be
installed almost entirely above the deck, limiting the
under-the-counter contorting that often accompanies a new faucet
installation project. The only steps below the counter are to connect
the spray wand hose and the water supply lines.
H2Okinetic(TM) showers, one of the brand’s other hallmark
technologies, also followed a similar development path. New federal
and state requirements and the changing global landscape of water
availability have created the need for more water-efficient products
in the lavatory. After extensive research, Delta Faucet discovered
that, while many consumers were willing to reduce their water
consumption in other areas of the home, most were not willing to
compromise their experience in the shower.
H2Okinetic technology helps address this problem by giving users the
feeling of more water without actually using more water. Each
H2Okinetic shower employs the science of fluidics to manipulate the
water droplet size and spray pattern, giving users the feeling of a
more drenching and warming shower.
From: A. Papazian
http://www.deltafaucet.com/smart-solutions/index.html