Eagle Chemical Industries

If you head down to Vidyaranyapura 56, you’ll find Eagle Chemical Industries. It’s not a huge factory or anything like that. We just have a decent space where we handle the chemicals and keep the stock ready for the local shops. Mostly it’s just industrial stuff that people need for cleaning or small manufacturing. My brother and I run the place. We spend a lot of time moving barrels around and checking the labels. It gets pretty hot inside during the summer months. We don't have a big front office. Just a small desk where we keep the ledger and the phone. Sometimes people just walk in off the street asking for a liter of something, and we have to tell them we mostly do bulk. It’s been our family business for a while now. The neighborhood has changed a lot since we first opened at number 56. There are more houses now and the traffic is worse. But we stay here because we know the area and our regulars know where to find us. We aren't doing any big advertising or having a fancy website. Word of mouth usually keeps us busy enough. It’s hard work, getting your hands dirty and dealing with the smells of the chemicals, but it’s what we do. We just keep the door open and keep working until the sun goes down. It's a simple living for us here.