Toto (company)
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| legal form | Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3596200000 |
| founding | 1917 |
| Seat | Kitakyushu |
| Number of employees | 26,842 (March 2015) |
| sales | € 4.3 billion (2015) |
| Branch | Sanitary engineering |
| Website | www.toto.com |
Toto KK ( TOTO 株式会社 , Tōtō kabushiki-gaisha ; English TOTO Limited ), based in Kitakyūshū , is Japan's largest manufacturer of toilets and is listed in the Nikkei 225 . The company, founded in 1917 as Tōyō Tōki ( 東洋 陶器 Eastern Ceramics ), manufactures complete bathroom solutions , including bathtubs , toilets , washbasins and urinals . It also developed what is known as a washlet , a combination of toilet and bidet , and made this product particularly popular in Japan.
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 . The company has had its European headquarters in Düsseldorf since 2012 . For the toilets, the pretext specialist Tece from Emsdetten the modules forth.
In contrast to the water surge of a conventional toilet, Toto toilets flush with a rotating water vortex (“tornado flush”). In 2010 the company developed a toilet that determines urine levels, measures blood pressure, and displays body temperature and weight. The data can be saved on a computer and sent to a doctor.
Web links
- Company website (multilingual)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Corporate Data. toto.co.jp, accessed March 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Innovations in toilet design: Big business. Tagesspiegel, August 1, 2015, accessed on March 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Stern: Japanese high-tech toilet health check in the quiet place , from September 4, 2010