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Most Moen kitchen, washbasin, and bathtub/shower faucets are of the single-handle design, and almost all have used the same basic water-controlling cartridge from the 1960s until 2010. Known as the Moen 1225, it is a plastic (older versions were brass) cylinder approximately 4 inches long by 3/4 inches in diameter.
Alfred M. Moen (27 December 1916 – 17 April 2001) was an American inventor and founder of Moen Incorporated.He invented the single-handed mixing faucet.In 1959 Fortune magazine listed the Moen "one-handle mixing faucet", along with inventions such as Henry Ford's Model T and Benjamin Franklin's Franklin stove, as one of the top 100 best-designed mass-produced products, the result of a survey ...
Fortune Brands' Water Innovations segment (formerly the Global Plumbing Group) [4] [5] is headquartered in North Olmsted, Ohio.The segment manufactures or assembles and sells faucets, accessories, kitchen sinks and waste disposals, predominantly under the Moen and House of Rohl brands, which includes luxury branded plumbing products from Riobel, Perrin & Rowe, Victoria + Albert and Shaws.
The home and hardware division reached annual sales of over $4 billion, from Waterloo Industries, Moen faucets, Fypon, Therma-Tru doors, Simonton windows, Master Lock, American Lock, and Vista Window Company, Western Division. Many of these operations passed to Fortune Brands Home & Security when the company was split.
Faucet is the most common term in the US, similar in use to "tap" in British English, e.g. "water faucet" (although the term "tap" is also used in the US). Spigot is used by professionals in the trade (such as plumbers), and typically refers to an outdoor fixture.
In 1961, the company set up its first subsidiary abroad, in France. The following year Grohe acquired exclusive rights to produce the Moen Mixing Faucet, which mixes hot and cold water with a single lever. In 1965, the company expanded into Austria and founded its third subsidiary abroad in Italy in 1967.
American Standard Brands is a North American manufacturer of plumbing fixtures, based in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States.Since 2013, it has been a subsidiary of the Lixil Group. [1]
Pfister, called Price Pfister until 2010, is an American manufacturer of bathroom and lavatory faucets, shower systems, showerheads and accessories, kitchen faucets and other plumbing fixtures. Emil Price and William Pfister founded the company in 1910. Today, Pfister is owned by Assa Abloy.