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Dive brief:
- The company said in a press release on August 22: Toto has opened a $ 224 million production facility in Morrow, Georgia, and has increased the production capacity of a high -end toilet by 150 %.
- Toto aims to change more production from Toto’s Asian plants to North America, strengthen the company’s regional supply chain, increase production resistance, and pursue long -term stability targets.
- “This expansion of the leadership in luxury bathroom innovation will create a more agile and flexible production network,” said Taro Muroi, CEO of Toto USA.
Dive insight:
Toto expects to shorten the product’s lead time by making luxury toilets from North American plants instead of Asian factories.He said in this versionHuman beings are also expected to reduce topical production of transportation, reducing time delivery and reducing carbon emissions related to transportation.
Toto has allocated about half of tomorrow’s three -storey, 363,393 square feet to produce approximately 300,000 toilets of an annual one, a North American strategic product in each version. The factory, which is set to start production in the fall, increases the capacity of the region by approximately 1 million units a year across Morrow’s Morrow and Lakewood, Georgia, its plants and Mexican facilities.
Morrow facility, which maintains 420 local jobs, includes high -pressure casting equipment that, by activating larger and more sophisticated designs, overcomes previous production restrictions, which is expected to extend a range of superior products made in North America.
New facilities include technology for higher operational efficiency, such as heat -resistant QR codes. Real -time tracking codes make quality control and data analysis possible to improve production processes.
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