Shivaa Tea Products Private Limited

Our place is on South Street No.2 in Avarampalayam. If you walk down the lane, you’ll probably smell the tea before you see the door at 27/1. Shivaa Tea Products is mostly about the leaves and the dust. We spend our hours blending and packing. The air inside is always a bit thick with that dry tea scent. It gets into your hair and your skin. We aren't a big fancy corporation with a glass building. It’s just an old-fashioned workroom with benches and scales. We have a few machines that help with the sealing, but they make a lot of racket. Sometimes they get jammed and we have to spend an hour fixing them with a wrench. That’s just part of the day. Coimbatore is a big place for tea, so there is always competition, but we just stick to our routine. We drink a lot of tea ourselves, mostly to make sure the latest batch tastes like it should. The street outside is narrow, so when the delivery vans come, it’s always a bit of a struggle to get them parked right. We have to shout a bit over the traffic noise. By the time evening rolls around, we are usually pretty tired and covered in a fine layer of tea dust. We lock up the gate and head home, only to do it all again the next morning. It’s steady work.