Formerly known as "Duravit", this name is better known to Chinese consumers. Its predecessor was a pottery factory in Hernberg, Germany, founded in 1817, and in 1956 it began producing sanitary porcelain. As of April 2004, there are 316 five-star hotels in the world, 60% of the country's presidential palaces and 50% of the world's capital airports use Duravit sanitary ware, and in 2006, it was rated as the world's top ten sanitary ware brands by Forbes. In 2015, its all-in-one smart toilet SensoWash® i won the German Design Award and won the "Outstanding Product Design Award" in the bathroom and health category, but the brand's mid-to-low-end products are quite different from imports.