Ashish Packaging Corporation

Our place, Ashish Packaging Corporation, sits on Plots 63, 64, and 65. It’s a decent sized area but it fills up fast with all the boxes and materials we have to keep on hand. When you walk in, the first thing you notice is the smell of cardboard and maybe some glue from the assembly area. We spend our hours cutting, folding, and getting things ready for other businesses to use. It’s a lot of physical work and we’re on our feet all day. My hands get pretty dry from handling all that paper every day. We have a few machines that help out, but a lot of it is still done by hand or guided by us. The plots are right next to each other, so we move stuff back and forth all day long. It’s a bit of a workout for everyone. We don’t have a big corporate team, just a few of us who have been doing this for years. We know which machines are finicky and how to fix them when they act up. It’s not a shiny new facility by any means. The walls have some scuffs and the floor is worn down in the spots where we stand the most near the presses. We prefer it that way. It shows we actually do the work. Customers usually just call us or stop by the plot to see how their order is coming along. We don't bother with marketing.