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A toilet maker turns out to be the world's second-largest chuck producer

development2026-05-04

Claim

Toto's shares surged 18% to a five-year high after record profits revealed it is now the world's second-largest producer of electrostatic chucks for NAND chip manufacturing.

Reported metric: +18%

Reporting date: 2026-05-04 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 4, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to May 4, 2026

Actor

Toto

Evidence for

Supersedes

Activists ask a toilet maker to abandon toilets for chips

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A toilet maker turns out to be the world's second-largest chuck producer
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-05-04
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-04-a-toilet-maker-is-the-second-largest-chuck-producer
Claim: Toto's shares surged 18% to a five-year high after record profits revealed it is now the world's second-largest producer of electrostatic chucks for NAND chip manufacturing.
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- Welcome to May 4, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-4-2026
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