Saradhambika Paper Board Mills (P) Ltd.

We are located out in Sellakumarapalayam, near the Othakudirai bus stop in the Gobichettipalayam area. It’s a bit of a drive from Erode city, but it’s quiet out here except for the sound of our mill. The process of making paper board is messy and involves a lot of water and pulp. You can usually smell the damp wood and paper from down the road. Our mill has been operating here for a while, and many of the people who work here live right in the nearby village of Polavakalipalayam. We have these massive rollers that never seem to stop turning. It’s a twenty-four-hour kind of operation, so there is always someone on-site, even in the middle of the night. The floors are always a bit wet and there are stacks of recycled paper everywhere you look. We aren't really set up for visitors, it’s a working industrial site with a lot of heavy machinery. The office is just a small room near the main gate where we keep the logs. Sometimes the lorries getting loaded with boards block the whole road, and we have to go out and help direct traffic. It is a lot of hard work, and things get pretty humid inside the building because of all the steam. But we’ve got a good group of local guys who know how to keep the machines running smoothly.