Kamal Steel Corporation

Being in Peenya 1st Stage means dealing with constant industrial noise and trucks. Our unit in Sri Muneshwara Industrial Estate is where we handle all the steel work for Kamal Steel Corporation. It’s a big shed with a high ceiling, but it still feels small when we have a full load of rods coming in. The floor is concrete and scarred from years of dragging heavy metal around. We have a few cutting machines that have seen better days but still work just fine if you know their quirks. Tumkur Road is always a mess with the highway traffic, so we have to plan our pickups carefully. We are just a group of workers who know steel. There isn't any fancy marketing here, just the sound of metal hitting metal and the smell of industrial coolant. Most days, we are covered in a thin layer of iron dust. We eat our lunch together in the small room at the back. It’s a straightforward operation. We get the raw material, process it according to the dimensions needed, and send it off. Sometimes the orders are small, sometimes they take up the whole floor. We don’t mind either way as long as the work keeps coming. It’s a tough environment, but we’ve grown used to the grit and the heat over the years. We stay until the last truck is loaded and the gates are locked.