West Sacramento’s Southport business park is about to get a whole lot saucier. Nippon Shokken, the U.S. arm of Japan’s leading sauce and seasoning maker, is adding a 122,000 square foot building that will more than double its West Sacramento plant’s footprint. The project will expand manufacturing and storage on the roughly 10 acre site and further entrench Southport as a regional food industry hub.
According to the Sacramento Business Journal, Nippon Shokken U.S.A. is attaching the new two story structure to its existing 70,000 square foot facility, bringing the campus total to roughly 192,000 square feet across 10 acres. The outlet reports that the expansion is designed to support both production and distribution of sauces and blended seasonings sold across the United States.
Expansion Timeline And Capacity
In a news release, Nihon Shokken, the company’s Japan based parent, said a March 5, 2026 groundbreaking was followed by construction starting March 11, 2026. The two story tilt up concrete building is slated for completion in February 2028, with operations targeted to begin by July 2028. The release states that Phase 2 will add half gallon bottle lines, introduce a new retail bottle line and increase output to about 20,000 tons per year, and it names The Austin Company as the design builder. The parent company lists the initial investment at roughly 180億円 (about 18 billion yen).
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