Sri Karigiri Food Industries

Our factory is located out on Sira Road in the Oorukere area. We are right near the Raja brick and tile place, so you can often see the smoke from their chimneys. Being right on the NH-4 highway means there is a constant noise of traffic and the sound of horns throughout the day. We are a food industry business, which means we spend a lot of time cleaning and checking on the machines. It is a lot of work to make sure everything is handled properly before it is packed. We have a small group of local workers from the villages nearby. We all wear hairnets and aprons, which gets a bit hot during the summer months when the temperature in the district climbs up. We aren't a massive corporation with a fancy logo. We are just a local industry trying to make good products. Sometimes the machines give us trouble and we have to spend half the day fixing a belt or a motor. We get our raw materials from the local markets and farms, and we do all the processing right here in this building. At lunch time, we usually sit together outside in the shade. It is a very routine kind of life. We follow the same steps every day to make sure the food is processed correctly. It is a lot of responsibility, but we have been doing it this way for a while now and it works for us.