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TOTO was founded in 1917. The company is based in Kitakyushu, Japan, and owns production facilities in nine countries. [2] [3] Toto acquired the German toilet manufacturer Pagette in 2009 and has been supplying the European market through this company since it first appeared at the 2009 International Sanitary and Heating Fair.
Although in Japan it is believed that the squat toilet is traditional, the trend in Japan is to move away from squat toilets: According to Toto, one of Japan's major toilet manufacturers, the production of Western-style toilets increased rapidly since 1976. [21] In 2015, only 1% of all toilets produced by this company were squat toilets. [21]
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.
In 1976, American industrial designer Victor Papanek proposed the dual flush system in his book Design for the real world, [3] but the first practical implementation was designed in 1980, by staff at the Australian sanitary-ware company Caroma, with flush volumes of 11 and 5.5 litres. [4]
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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.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Enrique Hernandez, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 22.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
A toilet [n 1] is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human waste (urine and feces), and sometimes toilet paper, usually for disposal. Flush toilets use water, while dry or non-flush toilets do not.