WAUNAKEE — This was cornfield just eight years ago.Where tractors and harvesters once plied the land, there are now towering stainless steel tanks, miles of piping and a high-tech bottling line that can fill 1,200 cans a minute.Across the street, a 200,000-square-foot warehouse is home to a 25,000-square-foot cooler and a packaging line that snakes through the building in the Waunakee Business Park.The $72 million project by Octopi was highly publicized a year ago when ground was broken on the expansion of the production facility and the sprawling new warehouse.
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