Summary: U.S. renovation website StarCraft has published the most valuable faucet brands in the U.S. market in 2019 (non-commercial), and excellent suppliers such as China Seagull and Viga have also received praise.
American renovation website StarCraft has published the most valuable faucet brands (non-commercial) in the U.S. market in 2019, with excellent suppliers such as China’s Seagull and Lutar also receiving praise. The site screened 250 faucet brands, encompassing both luxury and mid-priced faucets from continents other than Asia, noting that while there are several well-known and very valuable luxury faucet manufacturers in Asia, none of them sell in the U.S. or Canada. And those we know of high-end faucet brands in the Chinese market, they are positioned differently in the U.S. market, such as TOTO is listed in the mid-priced faucet brands.
Although the current export situation is affected by the epidemic, the United States, as the largest export destination for Chinese sanitary ware, is an important export market for export enterprises. How is the local faucet brand viewed in the United States? This article should help in understanding the faucet brand situation in the US market.
Luxury Faucet Brands in North America
●Brizo
Brizo’s Chinese suppliers include Seagull and Lutar, and the brand is owned by Masco, Hansgrohe’s parent company, with a team of designers led by Judd Lord, design director at our sister brand Delta. Brizo’s Chinese suppliers include Seagull and Lutar. The brand’s vacuum plating technology is considered valuable for the surface of its products.
●Rubinet
Established in 1981, the faucets are sold primarily through offline stores in Canada and parts of the U.S. The faucets are supplied by the Hungarian manufacturer Kerox and CeramTec GmbH. The company’s suppliers of two-handle faucet spools are FlühsDirehtechnik, Germany, and single-handle faucets are supplied by Hungarian manufacturer Kerox and CeramTec GmbH, Germany.
●Watermark
The faucet brands that can currently compete with Kohler in the U.S. are mainly in product design and surface treatment.
●Kohler
The site considers Kohler to be a mid-to-high-end positioned brand in North America, with the advantage of being cost-effective.
●Waterstone.
The company produces only kitchen and custom faucets, featuring the ability to make small batches of Europe’s vanished vintage faucets in creative but expensive designs.
Luxury European Faucet Brands
●In2aqua
Founded in 2013, founder Christopher Marshall was previously CEO of German faucet manufacturer Hansa Armaturen GmbH. The strength of the brand’s products lies in the fact that no plastic parts are used inside the faucets and that they are made of diamond-like film (DLC) material.
●Hanssgrohe
The MASCO group of brands, which also includes Delta, Peerless, Axor, Brizo and Newport Brass, are designed by a team of in-house designers, or in conjunction with the German design studio Phoenix. Most of its products are currently manufactured in China and Taiwan.
●Graff
A subsidiary of Meridian International Group, Inc. with the advantage of being cost effective and well marketed. It mainly manufactures brass and stainless steel faucets. The products are designed by Italian design studios Angeletti Ruzza Design and Davide Oppizzi at their DCUBE studio in Switzerland.
●Perrin & Rowe
Owned by Moen’s parent company, Fuchun Group, with additional brands Rohl and Riobel. The main products are classic Victorian and Edwardian style taps. The valve cartridges are supplied by the German manufacturer Anton Tränkle GmbH & Co KG.
●Herbeau
The company is the North American distributor for the French company Herbeau Creations. The company was founded in 1857 by Louis Herbeau and has been producing classic French style faucets for the past 150 years. Parts were supplied by FlühsDrehtechnik, GmbH.
Similar in style to the company’s products are the Victorian/Edwardian style taps produced by Strrom Plumbing, Perrin & Rowe, Lefroy Brooks, Samuel Heath and other companies with Anglo-American origins, but the influence of the French Art Nouveau movement is evident throughout the design elements of the collection, such as the kitchen taps.
Herbeau’s prices are high, starting at around $500, and even reaching $3,000 for products with special treatment technology.
The Mid-Priced American Faucet Brands
●Delta
MASCO’s brands are mainly manufactured in the United States and China.
●Moen
It is mainly produced in the United States.
●California
Mainly selling assembled faucets, medium priced.
The European Brands of Medium-priced Faucets
●Paini
Founded in 1954, it is currently one of the largest manufacturers of faucets and plumbing products in Northern Italy. The main customers are IKEA, jewell, pfishter, Symmons and Whitehaus. The main customers are IKEA, jewell, pfishter, Symmons and Whitehaus. early on it distributed its own brand LaToscana products through Home Depot in the US and Canada, and later on it established its own distribution team.
●Gessi.
Italian faucet brand, products designed by a team led by designer and sculptor Prospero Rasulo, typical of modern style manufacturers.
The Mid-Priced Asian Faucet Brands
●Danze
Danze is a brand of Chenglin Enterprises and has a well-established offline and online presence in the United States.
●Dawn
US-based importer and distributor of Chinese faucets, founded in 2003, with major product designs by in-house designers and a few by Israeli product designer Itamar Harari. Parts are supplied by Hungarian manufacturer Kerox Kft. Considered a company to watch.
●TOTO
The faucets are mainly manufactured by TOTO’s Dalian subsidiary in China and exported to the U.S., with some of the faucets manufactured by Chenglin.
●VIGA
A professional manufacturer of sanitary ware, experienced in the development and production of faucets. It is a leader in the industry.