Empire Engineers

At Empire Engineers, we work out of a small shop at 3, Thiruvasagam Street in Sivanandhapuram. It is a quiet street most of the time, until we start up the machines. We focus on general engineering work, which basically means we fix things or make small metal parts when someone brings us a drawing or an old piece to copy. Our hands are almost always covered in oil or grease, and the floor is usually littered with metal shavings. We don't have a fancy office or a computer system to track everything. We just write things down on a pad and get to work. Most of our customers are local people or small businesses from around Sivanandhapuram who need something repaired quickly. We’ve been doing this for a few years now, and we’ve learned how to handle most of the common problems that come our way. It is hard work, and the workshop gets quite hot in the summer, but we like the feeling of actually making something with our hands. We don't have any big titles or a hierarchy. It is just a couple of us who know how to work the lathes and the welding equipment. We open up early and stay until the jobs for the day are finished. It’s a practical, no-nonsense kind of place where the focus is just on getting the mechanical work done right.