Sun-Mar

Sun-Mar is the trade name of Sun-Mar Corporation, a Canadian manufacturer and distributor for composting toilets, garden composters and other home composting products. The Company was founded in Sweden and moved to Canada in the 1970s, and has been developing toilet technology ever since. The company currently operates its head office out of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, and has many independent dealers across North America.

Sun-Mar Excel Self-contained composting toilet system Sun-Mar Corp. was founded by Hardy Sundberg, who had developed the world’s first self-contained composting toilet in 1971. Sun-Mar has been marketing some 22 different models of composting toilets for more than three decades. As Sun-Mar continued to grow they became the first composting toilet to be certified by the National Sanitation Foundation, an organization that tests and certifies that products meet the requirements of strict public health standards under ANSI/ NSF Standard 41 (2005) the most recent version of the standard. In addition to NSF, Sun-Mar composting toilets also carry CSA and CE certifications.

Sun-Mar sells three types of composting toilets. They are the self-contained, central flush, and central dry systems. The Excel is North America's best-selling composting toilet.