GUELPH, ONTARIO, CANADA— The new SANIBEST MACERATING TOILET SYSTEM from SFA Saniflo Inc. was honored with a New Product Showcase Award at the recent ISH North America Show in Boston. The SANIBEST received a Second Place Award in the Tools & Equipment category of the compe-tition. The awards were announced during the show on Saturday morning, October 16, by Roland Bleinroth, president of Messe Frankfurt Inc., the show’s organizer.

CSA-CERTIFIED: The newest addition to the Saniflo line of macerating plumbing systems, the SANIBEST has been certified by CSA International for use in both the United States and Canada. The CSA certification is for two standards:

• ANSI/UL Standard No. 778 – Motor Operated Water Pumps.
• CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 108-01 – Liquid Pumps.

The new SANIBEST represents a step up in flushing power from Saniflo’s popular SANIPLUS model. While SANIPLUS will meet the needs of a typical residential application involving a toilet, hand basin, bath tub and shower, SANIBEST is intended for larger residential and even commercial applications. That means it can collect and pump away waste water not only from conventional bathroom fixtures, but also from urinals and even clothes washing machines. The key difference is in the macerating device.

The SANIPLUS macerator uses a fast-rotating cutting blade, similar to a garbage disposal, to shred waste and toilet paper in the flush water before removing it through a 3/4-inch discharge line to a soil stack or septic tank.

The SANIBEST is a grinder device with a cutting blade made of hardened steel that can handle larger sanitary articles as well as waste and toilet tissue. The blade rotates against a stationary, perforated base plate, so that waste is quickly and easily dispersed through the base plate’s holes and into a 3/4-inch or one-inch discharge line. While minimizing the risk of blockages in the unit and in the discharge line, the macerating action remains relatively quiet, with a noise level comparable to that of a conventional toilet re-filling.

The more powerful SANIBEST system also pumps higher and farther: up to 18 feet vertically or nearly 180 feet horizontally (versus 12 and 150 feet, respectively for SANIPLUS) – or a lesser combination of these two distances. Home and building owners therefore have greater flexibility in where to situate a new bathroom in relation to the soil stack or the septic tank.

Although the most powerful unit in the Saniflo lineup, the SANIBEST macerating toilet system is still low-consumption, using an elongated bowl that flushes the standard 1.6 gallons (six liters) per flush.

SFA SANIFLO INC. is the only manufacturer of its kind in North America, offering a complete line of macerating toilet systems for residential and commercial applications. Saniflo markets through independent sales agents throughout North America and is currently available at more than 500 distributor locations in the United States and Canada.

For more information on Sanibest and the rest of Saniflo product line, call 1-800-571-8191) or visit www.saniflo.com.

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