1917
The company is established by Kazuchika Okura under the name of TOYO TOKI CO.,Ltd.,Which is later renamed to TOTO. Five Years previously ,In 1912. Okura had set up a laboratory to develop the kind of sanitary ceramics that had become common in Europe and America.(Ironically, considering how sophisticated Japan’s bathroom culture is today.wooden toilet bowls were still prevalent and there was no sewage system.)With its first sales, Okura’s company begins challenging accepted notions of cleanliness. something that TOTO continues do today.
1923
The Great Kanto Earthquake strikes.devastating Tokuo.A sewage system is built during the reconstruction and the demand for sanitary ware grows rapidly.
1946
After World War II,TOTO begins to manufacture metal fittings and faucets as well as ceramics. Ever Since，innovation in the field of precision machining technology has gone hand-in-hand with developments in the firing and casting of sanitary ware as two of TOTO’s core businesses.
1964
Japan is in the midst of its economic miracle when it hosts the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. And is enjoying the construction boom that accompanies it.TOTO is again at the forefront of bathroom technology, developing the prefabrication methods necessary to meet the need for mass production, which saves time and energy on construction. The modular prefabricated bathrooms TOTO creates for the 1,044 rooms th Tokyo’s Hotel New Otani, opened for the Olympics, show how the company has perfected the combination of technology and design.
1977
TOTO’s first overseas factory opens: P.T. Surya TOTO Indonesia
1980
TOTO launches the WASHLET, providing consumers with a whole new level of cleanliness and comfort.
1981
Following in the wake of the WASHLET, TOTO starts moving its advanced technology into other products by introducing high-end modular kitchens.
1990
TOTO begins trading in the USA, having already extended into Indonesia, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong. TOTO expands business to China in 1994
1993
The launch of the NEOREST toilet brings about the fullest realization yet of the principle of Clean Technology, incorporating the WASHLET and a comprehensive range of TOTO’s innovations into a bathroom of the highest aesthetic and performance quality.
1998
TOTO launches HYDROTECT, a oatented photocatalytic technology. The material’s self-cleans and breads down pollutants in the air, making it ideal for external use. Easy to clean, it eliminates odours and bacteriamaking it ideal for internal use, too.
2006
The TOTO Universal Design Research Centre is built. Its purpose is to create new products through an extensive process of customer dialogue and feedback.
2009
TOTO launches in Europe at the ISH Exhibition in Frankfurt. 10-14 March.
The company is established by Kazuchika Okura under the name of TOYO TOKI CO.,Ltd.,Which is later renamed to TOTO. Five Years previously ,In 1912. Okura had set up a laboratory to develop the kind of sanitary ceramics that had become common in Europe and America.(Ironically, considering how sophisticated Japan’s bathroom culture is today.wooden toilet bowls were still prevalent and there was no sewage system.)With its first sales, Okura’s company begins challenging accepted notions of cleanliness. something that TOTO continues do today.
1923
The Great Kanto Earthquake strikes.devastating Tokuo.A sewage system is built during the reconstruction and the demand for sanitary ware grows rapidly.
1946
After World War II,TOTO begins to manufacture metal fittings and faucets as well as ceramics. Ever Since，innovation in the field of precision machining technology has gone hand-in-hand with developments in the firing and casting of sanitary ware as two of TOTO’s core businesses.
1964
Japan is in the midst of its economic miracle when it hosts the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. And is enjoying the construction boom that accompanies it.TOTO is again at the forefront of bathroom technology, developing the prefabrication methods necessary to meet the need for mass production, which saves time and energy on construction. The modular prefabricated bathrooms TOTO creates for the 1,044 rooms th Tokyo’s Hotel New Otani, opened for the Olympics, show how the company has perfected the combination of technology and design.
1977
TOTO’s first overseas factory opens: P.T. Surya TOTO Indonesia
1980
TOTO launches the WASHLET, providing consumers with a whole new level of cleanliness and comfort.
1981
Following in the wake of the WASHLET, TOTO starts moving its advanced technology into other products by introducing high-end modular kitchens.
1990
TOTO begins trading in the USA, having already extended into Indonesia, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong. TOTO expands business to China in 1994
1993
The launch of the NEOREST toilet brings about the fullest realization yet of the principle of Clean Technology, incorporating the WASHLET and a comprehensive range of TOTO’s innovations into a bathroom of the highest aesthetic and performance quality.
1998
TOTO launches HYDROTECT, a oatented photocatalytic technology. The material’s self-cleans and breads down pollutants in the air, making it ideal for external use. Easy to clean, it eliminates odours and bacteriamaking it ideal for internal use, too.
2006
The TOTO Universal Design Research Centre is built. Its purpose is to create new products through an extensive process of customer dialogue and feedback.
2009
TOTO launches in Europe at the ISH Exhibition in Frankfurt. 10-14 March.
TOTO China
- In 2010
TOTO promotes green challenge, and keeps low carbon environmenal life. - In 2009TOTO’s water-saving squatting pans won both the championship and the second prize in the assessment activity held by the Kitchen & Bath Works Committee of the China Building Decoration Association together with the National Quality Supervision and Inspection Center of Architecture & Sanitary Ceramics.
- In 2008TOTO established the Water Environment Fund to financially aid and conduct public benefit activities on water environment protection and water conservation.
- In 2007the redecoration of the three SUPER SPACEs respectively in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai was finished.
- In 2006March 1, the 800 hotline for after-sale service was formally opened.
- In 2005TOTO signed up Chen Huilin, a star of Hong Kong, as the spokesperson of Washlet, and the construction of the second SUPER SPACE was completed in Shanghai and the third in Guangzhou.
- In 2004TOTO Machine (Guangzhou) Company Limited was formally established and the construction of the first SUPER SPACE exhibition hall was completed in Beijing.
- In 2003TOTO Shanghai Washlet Sanitary Ware Company Limited was formally set up.
- In 2001TOTO East China Company Limited was formally established.
- In 1997The first distributors’ conference of TOTO was held.
- In 1996It developed the first 6 distributor representatives and started to expand the Chinese market.
- In 1995TOTO (China) Company Limited and TOTO Machine (Beijing) Company Limited were established formally.
- In 1994TOTO Beijing Company Limited, TOTO Nanjing Company Limited and TOTO (Dalian) Company Limited were established formally.
