Sidhu Leather Industries

Plot No. 36 in the Leather Complex is our home. If you’ve ever been to a leather complex, you know exactly what it’s like. There’s a very specific smell of hides and chemicals that you just get used to after a week. Sidhu Leather Industries has been here since the plot was just a patch of dirt. We handle the raw leather, which is heavy and tough on the hands. We have these big vats and drying racks that take up most of the space. It’s messy work. Your boots get stained and the floor is always a bit wet. We don’t have a fancy office; it’s just a desk with a fan and a stack of old registers. The workers here have been with us for years, and we all just know the routine. When the sun is out, we use the yard to dry out some of the pieces. It’s a lot of waiting for things to cure properly. We don’t do any big sales pitches. People just look at the hides when they come to inspect the batches. We get the salt and the oils from the same guy we’ve used for twenty years. It’s a hard way to make a living, but it’s what we know. Sometimes the rain makes the yard unusable, so we have to cram everything inside and it gets even tighter. We just wait it out. It's how things go in this line of work. We usually head home around seven.