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Vitreous china is used in a variety of household and sanitaryware items such as basins, toilets, bidets, urinals and bathtubs. [6] [better source needed] Items that use vitreous china are usually ones that are best when kept clean and sanitary, with which a coating of vitreous china enamel helps.
Older 1987 Ideal Standard logo Ceramic sanitary ware designed by Gio Ponti for Ideal Standard, c. 1954.Photo by Paolo Monti.. Ideal Standard is a privately held multinational plumbing fixture company headquartered in Belgium.
It employs over 12,000 people including 2400 service technicians and has 7 manufacturing units with 1 in South Korea spread over 3,30,000 sq.m. Currently, it manufactures 39 million bath fittings every year for nearly 2.9 million bathrooms every year, delivering 3.3 million sanitary ware pieces annually and 9.9 million lighting products yearly.
As a three-man operation, the company began producing metal pressing products, e.g. parts of watches, brass pans and sheet metal showers, but soon concentrated on sanitary metal ware. Export started with the first delivery to Amsterdam, Netherlands in January 1907. By 1919, 3 office clerks and 48 production employees worked for the company.
Cane Ware: An eighteenth-century English stoneware of a light brownish-yellow colour (like bamboo), developed by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1770s. During the 19th and the earlier part of the 20th century, cane ware continued to be made in South Derbyshire and the Burton-on-Trent area as kitchen-ware and sanitary-ware. It had a fine-textured cane ...
VitrA was founded in 1942 by Nejat Eczacıbaşı, the same year its first factory was built in Kartal, Turkey. [1]After the war, the company started growing rapidly.Its core products at the time were ceramic plumbing fixtures.
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Duratex, or Dexco, is a publicly listed private Brazilian company, factory of fiberboards the main product, with shares traded at the B3 since 1951. The company previously only called Duratex is the result of the merger Duratex with Satipel Industrial, a company founded in 1971.