Sunder Steel Fabricators

People usually find us by following the sound of grinding metal. We are tucked away in Shop No 2 over at Nathupur Mandi in Sikanderpur. It is a noisy place, mostly because of the saws and the welding machines going all day long. The floor is almost never clean because of the iron filings and small bits of steel that fall off the benches. We spend most of our time measuring rods and cutting sheets to size for different jobs. It gets pretty hot in here during the summer months, especially when the welding torch has been on for hours at a time. Most of the guys have been working with steel for a long time, so their hands are rough and scarred. We take our tea outside near the mandi entrance because the air is a bit better there than inside the shop. Sometimes people bring in old gates that need a bit of fixing, or they want a new window frame made from scratch. We have a lot of scrap metal piled up in the corner that we sort through every weekend or so. It is not a fancy setup, just a practical workshop with heavy tools and a lot of grease on everything. The lights flicker a bit when the heavy cutter starts up in the morning. We’ve been in this spot for a while now and the locals know where to drop off their metal work. It is just steady, hard work every day from morning until the sun goes down and we lock the shutters and head home.