Nilkanth Dyestuff Industries

If you walk into Nilkanth Dyestuff Industries at Plot No. 17807 in the GIDC Estate, the first thing you’ll notice is that everything has a bit of a tint to it. Doing dyes is a messy business, and no matter how careful we are, there’s always some color that ends up on the floor or our clothes. We handle big vats and mixing tanks all day long. It's a lot of lifting and pouring, and you have to be careful with the temperatures. The plot number is a bit high up, so we're tucked further back in the estate. It’s a bit quieter back here compared to the main roads, but the trucks still find us. We keep a ledger of all the batches we make, and it’s mostly handwritten because that’s just how we’ve always done it. The office is small and usually smells like whatever chemical we’re working with that day. We don't spend much money on decoration; we’d rather just fix a leaky pipe or buy better gloves. It's a small crew of us, and we've been working together long enough that we don't need to give many instructions. We just see what needs to be mixed and get to it. Sometimes the colors don't come out exactly right on the first try, and we have to adjust things. That’s just part of the process. It's not glamorous work, but it's what we know how to do here at Plot 17807.