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JEFFERSON — The first bottles of the tangy, savory, umami-rich soy sauce Kikkoman is known for rolled off of the new bottling line at its manufacturing facility here on Sept. 18.
Jefferson, just over 30 miles east of Madison, is now home to the third Kikkoman manufacturing plant in the U.S. The Japanese company’s $560 million investment over 10 years is poised to create over 80 jobs, and is its second facility in Wisconsin.
Kikkoman Foods Inc. is the U.S. manufacturing arm of the soy sauce powerhouse. It is the first business to open at Jefferson County’s new Food and Beverage Innovation Campus, a 165-acre industrial park set up specifically for food and beverage manufacturing. Two other food processing facilities will join the brand in the months and years ahead…