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Narrator: A supercar is overtaking its rivals

With formula one science and sophisticated production.

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Robots and humans are working in tandem

To create a high tech tool that chops down the competition.

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Modern technology is keeping a centuries old

Writing tradition alive on a super scale.

And the world's oldest condiment is being made for the masses.

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These groundbreaking innovations are all taking place

Inside some of the most incredible factories

On the planet.

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Captions paid for by discovery communications

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Surrounded by the green fields of woking, England

Is a factory producing a vehicle unlike any other.

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This is the mclaren 720s.

It's sleek, fast, and very expensive.

One of these supercars will set you back

Nearly $300,000.

Mclaren cars are a unique type of car.

They're something special.

They're not cars that people need,

They're cars that people want.

Narrator: The 720s is brought to life here

At the mclaren production center.

This 371,000 square foot facility

Was designed by superstar architect norman foster in 2004

At an estimated cost of $386 million.

And the inside of the mclaren production center

Is as impressive as its exterior.

It's bright, spacious, quiet, and extremely clean.

Most high volume car manufacturers,

You'll see hundreds of robots

Making thousands of identical cars.

Well, not here.

Narrator: Mclaren makes fewer than 5,000 cars a year

And each one is special.

Assembling a road car is a very, very complex process.

Mclaren make a car to order.

It's like a bespoke suit. They are handcrafted.

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Narrator: And that requires a very hands on approach

Down on the factory floor.

Because of their decades of experience

Building formula one race cars,

This individual craft-based approach to car manufacturing

Lies deep in mclaren's dna.

Breece mclaren, the founder, was from new zealand.

He built his first formula one car in 1966.

Only ferrari has been in the racing game longer.

In the early '90s, they got into road cars with the seminal f1.

A lot of the lessons of the racetrack

Are then brought over into their production cars.

Narrator: This is the main building block,

Or chassis of a mclaren car.

It's called a monocell or cage

And the rest of the car is built around it.

The monocells are premanufactured in austria

And are made from the same material

Used in the modern formula one race car.

One of the major parts or major materials we use

Is carbon fiber.

Carbon fiber is at the heart of every mclaren.

Mclaren revolutionized formula one

When they brought in carbon fiber in 1981.

It made the chassis five times lighter and 10 times stronger

And it is a key component in the road cars today.

If you compare carbon fiber

To something like aluminum or steel,

That can be strong, actually the strength to weight ratio

Of carbon fiber is what's so important.

You don't need very much of it to get the equivalent strength

Of a much bigger amount of another material.

Narrator: But what exactly is this wonder material,

Carbon fiber?

Carbon fiber is really high-performance

Composite material.

It's something which contains thin fibers of carbon,

Which on their own would be sort of floppy,

But they have a certain tensile strength to them.

And then those fibers are embedded in a polymer resin,

Which is strong and has a certain flexibility to it.

But actually, when you combine the two,

You get something that's greater than the sum of its parts.

You get a super lightweight high-performance material.

Narrator: Just like their formula one cars,

Mclarens road cars are designed with the driver in mind.

They are built and designed around the driver,

So the driver is literally at the center of the action.

And then the monocage and monocell

Designed around the occupant.

Narrator: As soon as the monocage

Chassis arrives on the production line,

The team starts to assemble a car around this

One essential building block.

The first stage is to add crumple zones

And crash protection around the car's interior.

It's then taken for what they call geometric

And surface validation.

Here, over 450 different points of the car

Are measured to make sure every curve, line,

And corner is perfectly aligned

And in proportion.

We ensure each mclaren car is perfect

In every detail.

Really, right from the off, right from when we start

The whole project it's almost like watchmaking.

Narrator: Once the body has passed

The surface validation test,

The team can then start to build up the car's exterior --

The wing panels, side panels,

And for non-convertibles -- the roof.

Now it's ready to be painted.

Before spraying,

The whole body is wrapped in plastic

And the individual panels are exposed,

Primed, and sanded flat.

Any contaminants are removed with an anti-static gun

And mclaren's secret to their supercar's high speed

Can be found in the painting process.

By using special particles within the paint

And a special paint process,

We're actually able to decrease the amount of paint

We have to put on the car.

And essentially deliver... [ speaks indistinctly ]

Narrator: It takes 24 hours to paint a typical mclaren car

And another 40 minutes in a hot oven for it to fully dry.

Finally, it's time to start putting the car together.

A loom of wires is fed through the car

To provide it with power.

A typical mclaren is made up of over a mile of cables

And 2,000 individual circuits.

Next, the beating heart of the car.

The most common engine type

Is the m83018, a 3.8 liter 90 degree twin turbo

Charged flat plain v8.

The mclaren 720 s goes from not 62 miles per hour

In 2.9 seconds.

Top speed -- 212 miles per hour.

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Narrator: Like most of the other parts

That make up the mclaren, the engine is made offsite.

For mclaren, outsourcing the parts

Makes the most economic sense.

To try to actually build every single little bit of a car

As well as assemble the cars themselves

Would be inefficient from a process perspective,

But also from a cost perspective.

Narrator: Back on the assembly line,

The brake discs and pistons are installed.

The brakes will slow these high-performance wheels

From 124 miles per hour

To zero in just 4.6 seconds.

Now another team finishes the interior of the car.

A mclaren supercar

Is made up of over 1,200 individual components.

It takes two to three weeks to put one of these cars together.

But no car is really complete until it's been taken

For a spin out on the test track.

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The final stage consists of an inspection and clean

And polish of the vehicle.

Then it's off to the customer and out onto the open road.

We have this incredible passion for what we do.

We're normally very, very precise

And logical in our approach.

But actually, no, the thing that drives it is pure passion.

Narrator: Mclaren is one of the world's

Most high-tech brands.

The skill and sophistication

Found inside their production center

Make it one of the world's most spectacular super factories.

Coming up, an american icon is

Chopping down the competition.

And later, new technology is keeping one of

The world's oldest writing traditions alive.

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Narrator: In a popular beach town along the east coast,

One factory is manufacturing

One of the most iconic products in america --

The mighty chainsaw.

With teeth turning at 60 miles per hour,

Some chainsaws can fell trees in minutes

And cut logs even faster.

Behind all that power is a polished production line

That harnesses more than 40 years of expertise and skill.

This is the steel super factory in virginia beach, virginia.

Inside this 1,000,000 square foot facility,

Man, machine, and robots

Assemble more than 12,000 products a day.

Once you get inside, you realize what a super factory is.

Narrator: Steel has produced a staggering 75 million

Chainsaws since it opened here in 1974.

But the origins of the chainsaw itself go back much further.

The first ever chainsaw wasn't invented by a lumberjack.

Actually, it was invented by a physician.

The concept of a saw tooth chain device dates

From the 18th century and was worked by hand

When surgeons needed a quick way to cut through bone.

Narrator: In the 1920s, inventors began looking for ways

To further develop the concept for the forest industry.

Swiss born, andreas stihl was one of the pioneers.

He produced his first powered chainsaw in 1926.

The advent of the chainsaw completely revolutionized

The forestry industry.

Before then, you had gangs of men

Toiling with axes and hand saws.

Now one man could do the work of a half a dozen,

And stihl's plans have come a long way.

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In the '70s, when we started,

We were just building one product --

A small handheld chainsaw.

But we always had a vision.

And now we are the world's largest selling chainsaw.

Narrator: Several hundred components make up a chainsaw.

It needs to have an incredible strength to weight ratio.

Magnus: The chainsaw is quite a complex machine.

You've got to start with the crankshaft,

The piston, and the cylinder.

Eventually, that crankshaft turns the clutch drum,

Which in turn, turns the chain on the bar,

Which you use to cut wood.

But it's not quite that simple.

There's a lot of parts in there that make that chain turn.

Narrator: Production of every chainsaw

Starts with the piston.

Its main function is to transfer explosive energy

From inside the engine to the cutting chain.

Leaves are like small racing engines,

Turning as many as 10 and 11,000 rpm piston.

It is the heart of the engine.

Narrator: Raw piston castings made of aluminum

Are placed into a machine to be shaped, drilled,

Cut, board, and finished

With computer controlled precision.

I know it just looks very simple,

But the intricate machining

Is not just a round piston.

It's actually oval shape in this direction

And barrel shape in this direction.

Narrator: These pistons need to be milled

With incredible precision.

They're measured in microns.

If I were to measure the thickness

Of a sheet of notebook paper,

It would measure .1 of a millimeter thick.

In order to achieve the micron,

You would have to slice the thickness

Of a sheet of notebook paper 100 times.

Narrator: The room for error on these pistons

Is just two microns

About 25 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

I have measured the outside diameter of pistons

And had fingerprints on the piston,

Making it out of specification.

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The perfect piston has been engineered,

But to transfer power to the cutting chain,

You need a crankshaft.

The crankshaft transfers that in and out, back and forth,

Energy of the piston into a rotational force,

And that rotation turns

The gears and fixes to an exact sprocket

That is the thing that's driving the chain round and round.

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Narrator: Using computerized milling machines,

The steel forgings are transformed

Into the crankshaft components

In just 12 seconds,

But before they can be used,

They need to be strengthened.

We're taking crankshafts and putting them

Inside of the furnace to make them very hot.

It's 1,700 degrees to make them porous.

So that way the air comes out

And the carbon is pumped in to harden the metal.

Narrator: The carbon-infused components are baked

At 3,900 degrees fahrenheit,

Which gives them an extremely durable

And wear-resistant surface.

The reason why they infuse the steel with carbon

Is basically to make it harder.

And the reason why they need to be hard or strong

Is because these components are under enormous stress.

Narrator: Once out of the oven, the parts are milled some more

And measured.

Anything two microns out of alignment will be rejected.

They are then assembled in a pressing station

Where over 27 tons of pressure can be applied.

Finally, the assembled crankshaft

Is checked for straightness,

Ensuring that it's balanced and runs smoothly.

But there's still a long way

To go before the finished chainsaw

Is ready to leave this factory floor.

To help move things along,

Stihl has invested in some high tech helpers.

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Narrator: From lumberjacks to landscapers,

Stihl makes a product for everyone.

And when it comes to chainsaws,

They are the number one selling brand in the world.

Inside stihl's state of the art super factory in virginia beach,

Robots mill, test, and deliver a continuous supply of parts

To the assembly line 24 hours a day.

Magnus: There's a central guidance system.

They know exactly where they're at out on the shop floor,

Which assembly line they're going to,

And which material they're dropping off

Or in some cases picking up.

When the battery gets low, they charge themselves up again,

Then they start back in operation.

Narrator: There is even a robot that threads

And ties the knot in the drawstring

That starts the engine.

But when we first started the first year,

We made 12,000 units that first year.

And the process back then was air screwdrivers

And a lot of hand assembly.

So the whole process has really evolved.

And right now, we're producing 12,000 units a day

Out of the facility here in virginia beach.

Narrator: With the engine assembled,

The next step is to make the polymer housing.

It all happens here in the polymer zone

At the north end of the factory.

What's in these are what we call gaylord boxes

Is a raw resin that is applied

To the injection molding machine.

One may be going to a motor housing,

One may be going to shroud.

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Narrator: The raw resin pellets

Are melted at extremely high temperatures

And injected under tons of pressure into custom made molds.

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The resin cools, hardens,

And forms the shape of the polymer part.

A chainsaw will turn its cutting chain

At over 10,000 revolutions per minute.

So to be able to safely hold and control the chainsaw,

Stihl has designed its polymer handle

To be lightweight and super strong.

To bring down weight and increase rigidity,

What we do is we actually come in here

And we have a needle valve that opens up,

Injects nitrogen through here and it'll escape

Out through here, through a dam gate.

And it just makes the part real rigid and real lightweight.

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Narrator: The chainsaw engine is built and housed,

But now it's time to assemble the business end.

This is a guide bar.

A guide bar is basically the blade of a chainsaw.

The part that the chain actually rides around.

Narrator: The process starts with rolls of steel.

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon.

It's harder and stronger than iron.

To make the guide rail, a steel strip is cut

And stamped into three different pieces,

Which are then fed into a 20-ton metric press.

Here, they're bonded together

With a supercharged electric well

And then hardened with an induction heat treatment.

Well, the guide bar and the chain

Are obviously very critical to the function of a chainsaw

Because you need to cut wood.

The guide bar and the chain

Are matched according to the sprocket

That you have on.

They're different pitches of chain.

Depending on what kind of trees you're cutting

And the area you're cutting in.

Narrator: The chain is manufactured at another factory.

The cutting teeth and a top plate

Are angled at 30 degrees to aid cutting.

[ chainsaw whirring ]

Finally, before they're shipped out,

Every chainsaw is started up and tested.

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The stihl factory was founded here

Partly because of its proximity to the port of virginia.

Now, products made in this super factory

Are shipped across the u.S.

And to 80 countries.

Coming up, german technology is keeping

The world's oldest writing traditions alive.

And in japan, a popular condiment is being made

On an industrial scale.

The scale is hard to believe,

And that is really a super factory.

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Narrator: The city of stein in bavaria, germany

Is home to a uniquely charming super factory.

The facility may have a quaint medieval exterior,

But inside, it is truly an industrial powerhouse.

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This is faber-castell,

The world's oldest and biggest pencil business.

And in this factory,

They have perfected a centuries old process,

Producing 2.3 billion pencils a year.

The scale is hard to believe.

And that is really a super factory.

Narrator: Faber-castell defines tradition.

Founded in 1761,

It's been in the same family for nine generations.

And despite the current age of computerization,

The pencil business is booming.

Sales have increased

By almost 10% in the last three years.

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Grown ups really got into coloring,

What, three, four years ago

When mindfulness was a thing and there was a big push

Towards life drawing and landscape drawings.

Narrator: Faber makes two basic types of pencil --

The traditional lead type

And a wide range of colored pencils.

They may seem similar on the surface,

But the materials that run through them

Are made in very different ways.

What we know as a lead pencil isn't actually made from lead,

But from a soft natural mineral called graphite,

Which was mistaken for lead back in the 16th century.

It was discovered that graphite made legible marks on paper.

So it was trimmed into thin strips wrapped in string.

And lo and behold, the pencil was born.

The word graphite literally means a stone for writing with.

This is a piece of graphite I've got here.

It's basically a crystalline form of carbon and carbon

Takes many forms.

On one end of the spectrum, you've got super hard diamonds.

And at the other end you've got these really soft graphite.

It's so soft. I can rub it off with my finger.

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Narrator: At faber, the pencil making process

Starts in the measuring room

Where graphite is mixed with clay and water.

The amount of clay

Will determine the grade of the finished pencil.

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We have 16 grades of pencil going from 8b to 6h.

8b pencil is really soft

Because it contains lots of graphite

Only a small amount of clay.

And the more you move towards the 6h,

The harder the pencil gets.

This is what the h stands for

And the more clay you start adding to the whole thing.

So it is really crucial to get the right ratio into that lead

Before actually starting the pencil making process.

Narrator: Different grades make a significant difference

To the look of a line on the page.

For technical work, hard grades are ideal.

While most artists prefer

The denser black line of the softer grades.

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When it comes to making colored pencils,

There's no graphite involved,

Different pigments are mixed with china clay or kaolin,

And combined with a binding agent to hold it all together.

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The mix is squeezed like thin toothpaste

Through a 2 millimeter hole,

Coming out in 18.5 centimeter pencil-sized lengths,

Graphite black or colored,

The leads are still soft and flexible.

At this stage.

So they're dried for 3 1/2 hours in an electric oven

At 248 degrees fahrenheit.

The colored leads are removed,

Any longer and their pigments would be destroyed.

But the graphite leads still aren't hard enough for writing.

So they're packed into a second oven

With a much higher temperature.

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After 45 minutes in the oven, the hardened graphite leads

Are doused into a wax bath.

This increases their strength,

Ensures a smooth stroke when writing or drawing,

And also helps with water resistance.

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So now we have our pieces of lead ready.

This is where the magic happens.

This is where we start making our pencils.

Narrator: Cedar and lindenwood are used to make up

The casings of faber pencils.

The wood arrives as precut slats.

What's important about the slats themselves is that

They have a really fine grain to allow once

For good production.

But later on, when the customer has the pencil

At home for good sharpening,

We don't want the wood to splinter.

We want it to sharpen nicely

And this is what we need the grain for.

Narrator: Each slat is exactly the length of a pencil,

But just half the thickness.

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First, grooves have to be cut in the slats.

Glue is now laid into each groove.

This will keep the leads firmly in place

When they're inserted into the wooden casing.

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Now, a second groove slat

Is placed exactly on top of the first.

The workers here call this das sandwich and each sandwich

Then goes into the drying wheel.

The sandwiches are in the drying wheel for one hour.

The wheel rotates, squeezes the sandwiches together,

And this way leaves no gap.

Just two pieces of wood glued together.

Narrator: A planing machine now cuts them into pencils,

Round, hexagonal, or triangular, depending on the time.

Up to 10 pencils can be cut from a single sandwich.

Faber prides themselves

On producing strong and durable pencils

Qualities they ensure by putting each one through a stress test.

To figure out if a pencil is good or not,

A quick way of doing so is to take a pencil,

Hold it at a 45 degree angle, and push down onto the scale.

And the pencil will not break before 2 1/2 kilos of pressure.

If it would break before,

We'd know there's something wrong with it

And test a couple of more to figure out what's wrong with it.

Let's see if the pencil that we've just made

Is of good quality.

So 45 degrees push down onto the scale

And two and a half.

Way past four or five kilos.

So that pencil is definitely good.

Narrator: The pencils that pass the stress test

Move on to the next stage --

The paint shop.

This is where the pencils get their first coating of paint.

The pencils come through the machine like that.

So basically from here to here, the felt ring would remove

All the leftover dust on the outside.

In here then is the paint.

In this case, dark green.

The blue ring here removes all the paint

Except for the pencil that has soaked into the wood

And the pencils that come out on the other end

Go onto the band and go through the drying tunnel

To have the paint dry.

Narrator: The graphite pencils are painted faber green

And the colored pencils

Are painted to match whatever color is on the inside.

Once the paint's dried, the pencils come back

And do this again.

They come back and do this again and they do this up to six times

Because the pencils need numerous layers of paint

To have a really nice finished coat.

Narrator: The company's logo, two jousting knights

Is stamped in gold leaf on every pencil,

And the colored pencils are also stamped

With their color identification.

In this case, cadmium red.

So the last thing that we're now missing

Is only the sharpening.

And, of course, quality control.

And this is what's happening here.

Narrator: Each pencil goes through a sharpening machine,

A combination of blades faster than the eye can see.

And an endless belt of sandpaper.

And no pencil leaves the factory

Without one final quality control check.

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It's taken 15 hours to make pencils from a lump of graphite,

Clay, pigments, and blocks of wood.

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Now they're packed.

500,000 every day ready to send out

To 100 countries all around the world.

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Coming up, a centuries old japanese recipe

Is being produced on a massive scale.

It is hard to believe how much they are making

In just one day.

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Narrator: Because of the huge steel vats,

The articulated tankers,

And the network of industrial pipes,

This may look like an oil refinery,

But this massive factory is making something

Perhaps more important to the japanese --

Soy sauce.

And they're doing it on an industrial scale.

Shoda makes nearly 10 million gallons of soy sauce a year,

Enough to fill 15 olympic swimming pools.

Soy sauce is the most popular condiment in japan,

Featuring in 80% of dishes.

And I would wager if you open any cupboard

In any home across the country, you will find a bottle.

Narrator: Soy sauce is so important,

It's now being referred to as a fifth flavor.

In the west, we've traditionally talked about

Four flavors -- bitter, sweet, salty, and sour.

But in japan and now increasingly in the west,

We also acknowledge a flavor called umami,

Which roughly translates as savory or brothy.

Narrator: Scientists have identified

The common denominator of umami

Tasting foods as having a high concentration

Of certain amino acids.

Naturally brewed soy sauce is one of the most widely used

Umami ingredients in japanese cooking.

Shoda has eight supersized factories across japan,

Producing 375 million

Small bottles of soy sauce a year,

10 million of them are made right here.

Japanese tradition meets modern innovation

On a super scale in this super factory.

It's an intense, exacting process

And it all starts with a simple bean.

The soy bean comes from the pea family.

And it provides essential nutrition,

Especially protein, for millions of people.

It's comprised of about 17% oil

And a high protein content, making it very healthy.

It's economically the most important bean in the world.

Narrator: Making or to be more specific,

Brewing soy sauce, isn't new.

In fact, it's over 2000 years old.

It's a fermentation process similar to making alcohol

Where a few essential ingredients,

In this case soybeans,

Combined with bacteria and yeast to cause chemical reactions.

Those reactions bring out a host of over 200 different flavors

In the dark golden liquid that is soy sauce.

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The soybean has been farmed throughout asia

For thousands of years.

Chinese buddhist monks introduced soy sauce to japan

In the 7th century.

Narrator: 115 tons of defatted soybean flakes

Arrive at the factory every week.

They're hard and inedible at first,

So they need to be softened with a bit of heat.

The beans are put into a giant rotating pressure cooker

And steamed at 150 degrees for a few minutes.

The softened beans are then turned into a fine mash

By high speed blades that pound the mix to a pulp.

Wheat is the next ingredient.

A cutting machine with powerful blades slices through it

And reduces it to a powdery consistency.

But soy sauce's most important ingredient comes next.

And it's not something you'd normally want in your food.

In order for it to be called natural soy sauce,

It has to use mold.

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Narrator: At the shoda factory in japan,

Soy sauce is made using soybeans,

Wheat, and a third ingredient that may come as a surprise.

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Mold is a form of fungus and it gives soy sauce

Its distinct flavor and characteristics

During the fermentation process.

Together, soybeans, wheat, and mold

Make something called koji.

Koji has been declared the national fungus.

Not just because it's essential

For the brewing of traditional soy sauce,

But also because it's essential for other traditional japanese

Foods like rice vinegar, miso, and saki.

Narrator: The soybeans and wheat are combined.

It's then transported on a high speed production line

To a massive, heated room where it's put into a giant vat

And air is blown through it for 72 hours.

The mold reacts with the mix, breaking down the wheat

And beans releasing starch and sugars.

When it comes out, it looks slightly green.

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The second part of the fermentation process

Starts with salt.

It arrives in the factory in 11 ton tankers,

And the sodium chloride is dissolved in water

To produce a huge pool of 20% salt brine.

The brine is pumped through the koji mix.

It prevents the growth of any undesirable microorganisms

And acts as a preservative for the koji.

Once that's done, lactic acid bacteria,

Which is brine-friendly, is added along with yeasts

That further promote the fermentation process.

This transforms the koji into moromi.

The moromi mash is then transported by spiral pumps

Through a network of pipes

Into gigantic steel fermentation vats.

This plant alone has 50 in constant use,

It's stored for six months and watched over as the soy

And wheat paste turns into a semi-liquid,

Reddish brown, mature mash.

A lot of soy sauce you buy in shops will be made

Using chemical processes.

But the traditional method uses mold and is natural.

And in order for it to be called natural soy sauce,

It has to use mold.

Narrator: Aspergillus mold has broken down the grain protein

Into free amino acids

And the protein fragments into starches

And then into simple sugars.

Now the lactic acid bacteria ferments those sugars,

Which gradually develops

The 200 flavors typically found in soy sauce.

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After six months of fermentation,

It's time to extract the sauce.

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This step requires linen,

Over a mile of it.

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The reddish brown mash is spread

Evenly onto the highly permeable cloth,

Which is folded 600 times back on itself.

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This massive tower is wheeled over to a hydraulic plunger.

Which slowly applies tons of pressure onto the linen.

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The moromi is continuously squeezed

Until a liquid sauces oozes out through the folds of linen.

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The process takes three days.

And what's left is a dry stack of linen caked in leftover mash

And 8,000 gallons of raw soy sauce.

The matches emptied into trucks and sold as cattle feed.

The all important liquid stays in the factory.

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Narrator: Pasteurization is a crucial step

In the soy sauce making process.

The pasteurized raw soy sauce

Needs to be filtered, then blended before

It's ready to be sent to the lab for testing.

Here, its aroma and color are tested

As well as its chemical composition

To determine how much nitrogen is present.

Then it's sent to the bottling plant

Where eight filling lines operate 24/7

To pump the sauce into bottles in seconds.

They can bottle over 20,000 gallons a day.

It is hard to believe how much they are making in just one day.

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Narrator: Shoda produces several different styles

Of soy sauce at this plant.

Dark soy sauce has a higher bean content

And has been fermented for longer

Giving it a stronger flavor.

Light has more wheat

And is used for delicate foods.

Here, 13,000 gallons of bottled sauce

And 120,000 gallons of commercial tins

Are all labeled and stored on 3,000 pallets.

They even pipe 26,000 gallons of soy sauce

Directly into trucks every day for commercial customers.

In the future, it's possible that advances in biotechnology

Might lead to shorter and better fermentation methods.

For now, though, shoda and its super factory

Is sticking with tradition.