In the age of smart phones , we believably spend more time sitting on toilets than ever before . And technology has changed the toilet - making process , too . Recently we visited a monolithic factory in Hungary where homo and robots make toilets hand in manus .
The 267 year - previous European ceramics manufacturerVilleroy & BochacquiredAlföldi Porcelángyár , the largest ceramic factory in Hungary in 1992 , just a few years after the crash of the political and stinting organization . The socialist party was established in 1965 in Hódmezővásárhely , and became the largest manufacturer of sanitary wares in the area . The flora successfully survived not only the authorities change in 1990 , but the previous global economical crisis starting in 2007 .
A few days ago the factory celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and on this rare affair the direction let a handful of diarist inside the rampart of the manufactory , which is the largest Villeroy & Boch works in Europe .
There are five principal step in the manufacturing of a toilet ( or a bidet , or a washbowl and so on ) , which you may see in the photos below . First , they have to fix the raw material of the eubstance and the glaze . Then comes the mellow insistence casting , a outgrowth that gives the liquid ceramic fabric its final solid form . After drying ( step three ) industrial robots cover the semi - finished products in glaze ( stone’s throw four ) . ultimately the healthful wares go through slowly a discharge burrow , spending 20 hours in the long - long oven where at one point the high temperature reaches 1200 degree Anders Celsius .
I found it also amazing that creating one toilet , from kaolin gunpowder to glistening and sexy ( askHelmut Newton ! ) porcelain , takes five days of work . But the mill is so liberal that 4000 products are produced – that is almost one and a one-half million production per class , invent by only 750 - 800 workers .
The raw material warehouse
This diesel locomotive used to haul tons of kaolin
50-year-old electrical system
The raw material proportioning system
Kaolin containers
Kaolin (also known as china clay) is one of the main materials of ceramics manufacturing
The 50-year-old reinforced concrete ceiling looks cool
Factory building
Drum mills for grinding raw materials
Dissolver tanks, designed for the blunging of raw materials
White is the color
High pressure casting with single or multi-mould machines
Human touch–cleaning the cast before drying
Preparing cast ceramic pieces for drying and glazing
This is physical work
Robotic arms do the precision work of glazing
Army of toilets
The texture of the glazing layer before firing
Feeding the firing tunnel
1200 degrees Celsius
Finishing touches
Huge warehouse for the packed products
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