TOKYO -- Toto, Japan's top toilet maker, is expanding its decades-old business of making parts for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, capitalizing on broader use of ceramics in the production of cutting-edge chips.
Washlet maker taps ceramics expertise to diversify longstanding business

Toto has set up an automated production line at its ceramics factory in Japan's Oita prefecture. (Toto)
TOKYO -- Toto, Japan's top toilet maker, is expanding its decades-old business of making parts for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, capitalizing on broader use of ceramics in the production of cutting-edge chips.