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In 1917, TOTO first began manufacturing vitreous china sanitary ware. Since then we have continued to expand our product line to meet the demands of continual lifestyle changes. Today we design and manufacture complete lines of innovative sensor flush valves, manual flush valves, automatic faucets, toilets, lavatories, and urinals. TOTO is the largest plumbing manufacturer in the world with over $4 billion in sales and over 80 affiliated manufacturing facilities worldwide. Our newest, advanced pressure casting vitreous china plant in Atlanta produces one piece toilets that are available throughout the country. As with many of our manufacturing facilities, TOTO Industries Morrow utilizes advanced robotics for precise, predictable construction.

For instance, we were one of the first companies to come up with a 6 liter, 1.6 gallons per flush toilet in answer to water conservation needs. We also designed the first battery powered flush valve and faucet that eliminated the need to completely remodel restrooms when upgrading to sensor flush valves and faucets.

Testing, testing, testing

Our R&D staff consists of over 1,500 engineers with years of experience working strictly with the design, redesign, testing and retesting of existing and new products. This enables us to continually offer products to meet any restroom need.

TOTO has a reputation for providing quality, maintenance-free products. Our consistent product dependability doesn’t happen by chance. While our competitors strive to meet the CSA and ANSI/ASME standards, we don’t stop there. We’ve set up our own methods of testing that are more realistic.

Take, for example, the ANSI/ASME paper tests, which were originally designed for 3.5 Gpf toilets. All toilet manufacturers must pass these tests, but then why do we still hear about problems in the field? One, because these tests were not designed to measure 1.6 Gpf toilets, and two, these tests are minimum standards tests, only.

This is why we subject our toilets to rigorous tests with “realistic” simulated waste combined with toilet paper.

These tests are as real as you want to be in this industry. In fact, our test requirements are so tough that many other toilets do not even pass TOTO’s minimum standards. TOTO testing guarantees performance in every toilet we make.

Most brand name toilets are only put through the typical ANSI/ASME tests which include flushing liquid dye, granules, and plastic balls. That’s just the beginning of TOTO’s testing.