PRESS RELEASEFor Immediate Release

January 23, 2014
LIXIL Corporation

LIXIL to Launch JICA Project in Kenya:“Ecological Sanitation System for Watershed Managementand Improving Hygienic Environment in Non-Urban Areas”
TOKYO, January 23, 2014 –LIXIL Corporation (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President:
Yoshiaki Fujimori) has submitted a proposal “Ecological Sanitation System for Watershed
Management and Improving Hygienic Environment in Non-Urban Areas in the Republic ofKenya” (hereinafter, “Kenya”) to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (hereinafter,“JICA”). As the proposal was selected for JICA’s first project for the Collaboration Programwith the Private Sector for Disseminating Japanese Technology, LIXIL will implement it withthe support of JICA.
In Kenya, the high GDP growth in recent years and an increase in the population of young
people have contributed to the formation of a middle class that has purchasing power. As thecountry is expected to achieve further growth, the nation is making efforts to develop its
infrastructure, which has not kept up with the sharp population increase and the concentration of
the population into the cities.
While flush toilet penetration is around 50% in Nairobi and other urban areas, seweragesystems remain very rudimentary in non-urban areas. About 21 million people have very poor
environments for defecation; 5.6 million out of them practice open defecation.* Consequently,
water sources, including surrounding rivers and groundwater are polluted, causing increasing
outbreaks of diseases such as typhoid and life-threatening diarrhea, which account for morethan 17,000 death of young children under the age of five annually.**Source: WSP. Economic Impacts of Poor Sanitation in Africa (March 2012)▲Kibera area of Nairobi City

▲Briefing to local residents

LIXIL has proposed an ecological sanitation waterless toilet system and is taking every
opportunity to promote the provision of clean and comfortable sanitation facilities in Kenya,
including at the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V) held in
Yokohama in June 2013.
Through this JICA’s project, LIXIL will implement its project to promote its ecological sanitationwaterless toilet system for the ever-increasing number of houses in Kenya’s urban city suburbs,
with the goal of reducing inappropriate treatment of human waste and open defecation.
LIXIL intends to use its expertise to improve people’s sanitation to remedy the country’s problem
from a long term perspective.
About Ecological Sanitation Waterless Toilet System “Green Toilet System”
Since 2008, LIXIL has worked on research and development of ecological sanitation that treats
human waste safely for recycling. The system doesn’t use precious water for the transportationof human waste and therefore will not pollute groundwater, rivers, lakes, sea and other water
resources. Instead of disposing of human waste, which contains phosphorus and nitrogen as
nutrients for plant growth, the system ferments and decomposes it to recycle it as fertilizer. LIXIL
has conducted demonstration testing with Hanoi University of Architecture in Vietnam since2010, and started a research project to promote ecological sanitation in Indonesia last year. InJapan, LIXIL has been conducting comprehensive demonstration research in Kamikatsu-cho,
Katsuura-gun, Tokushima Prefecture in light of local residents’ demands. Kenya sees poverty
and starvation caused by food shortages, as well as sanitary and environmental issues, asurgent challenges. LIXIL will launch activities for the Green Toilet System—ecologicalsanitation for safe defecation and fertilizer production, plus use of the fertilizer produced throughecological sanitation in agriculture and the creation of jobs—as a system to support the cycle oflife.

About LIXIL Corporation

Led by President and CEO Yoshiaki Fujimori, LIXIL Group Corporation (TSE Code: 5938) is alisted holding company posting 1.4 trillion JPY in consolidated sales in FY March 2013. The
Group is involved in a broad spectrum of housing-related businesses, ranging from themanufacture and sales of building materials and housing equipment to the operation of homecenters and a network of homebuilding franchises.
LIXIL Corporation, a consortium of building material companies, is a core enterprise of theGroup, generating 80% of consolidated sales. The largest housing and building materials
company in Japan with a vast and unique business portfolio, it is a leader in eight market
categories, with a 55% share in exteriors, 50% share in housing sashes and doors, 50%

share in curtain walls and 40% share in sanitary ware. LIXIL is also a leading brand in tiles,
bathroom furniture, and bathroom and kitchen units.
Launched in April 2011 under its present structure and name, LIXIL has been active in strategicacquisitions and partnerships in order to fortify and accelerate its growth in foreign markets. It
currently operates in more than 30 countries through various brands offering a broad lineup ofproducts and services. Permasteelisa, Gartner and Shanghai Meite, for example, spearhead ourproject business (building materials and curtain walls), while LIXIL, American Standard Asia
Pacific, Inax and Tostem are power players that feature an impressive brand portfolio including
kitchen units, bathroom fixtures, windows and doors. For more information about LIXIL Group,
please visit http://www.lixil-group.co.jp/
Useful Information:
For more information about JICA, please visit http://www.jica.go.jp/english/
For more information about LIXIL, please visit http://global.lixil.co.jp/

Media Contact:
Miyuki Otomo
LIXIL Group, Corporate Communication Division
pr@lixil.co.jp