LIXIL NAMED FIRST COMMERCIAL LICENSE PARTNER FOR GEORGIA TECH REINVENTED TOILET TECHNOLOGIES
TOKYO and NEW YORK, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- LIXIL, maker of pioneering water and housing products, today announced it has been named the first commercial license partner for Georgia Tech's Generation 2 Reinvented Toilet (G2RT) Consortium's technologies. The G2RT program had a global research team of 95 engineers, scientists, and industrial designers tasked with transforming traditional, infrastructure-dependent toilets into an appliance. LIXIL's commercial license follows a four-year partnership with Georgia Tech, as well as ongoing collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, initiated in 2011.
- TOKYO and NEW YORK, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- LIXIL, maker of pioneering water and housing products, today announced it has been named the first commercial license partner for Georgia Tech's Generation 2 Reinvented Toilet (G2RT) Consortium's technologies.
- LIXIL's commercial license follows a four-year partnership with Georgia Tech, as well as ongoing collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge , initiated in 2011.
- In addition to its public health benefits, reinvented toilets will ultimately offer significant cost savings in construction and installation.
- As the first commercial licensee, LIXIL will invest in further development to refine these technologies into products suitable for both public and private sector use.