Radhika Plastic Industries

Radhika Plastic Industries is tucked away in Chickpet at number 99/2. If you know Chickpet, you know how crowded and busy it gets every single day. We’ve been operating out of this small space for years. We make different kinds of plastic items, mostly things people use in their homes or for packaging. It’s a bit cramped inside with all the molds and the raw materials stacked up in the corners, but we make it work. The machines run pretty much all day long, and it gets quite warm in the summer months. We don't have a fancy showroom or anything. People usually just come to the door and ask what we have in stock for the day. It’s a family-run kind of thing, so you’ll usually see the same few faces every time you stop by. We’ve seen many shops come and go in this part of town, but we’ve managed to stick around. Dealing with plastic means we have to be careful about the smells and the heat, so we keep the big fans going. It’s a lot of manual work, moving heavy boxes and checking the state of the bits that come off the line. We aren't trying to be the biggest company out there. We just want to produce decent stuff that people can actually use. Our neighbors are mostly other small shops and traders, so there's always someone to talk to during a quick tea break. It’s a hectic life here, but it’s our home.