Work began a month ago to add new capacity at the Kikkoman plant, which opened in 1998 and supplies restaurants and industrial food producers in the western United States. But it won't result in any added workers at the highly automated plant where about 25 people now are employed, says Mick Neshek, the company's general counsel. The three-stage expansion will begin next year, most likely, and includes an additional loading dock, a new bottling building and replacement of an existing...

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