King'S Cold Storage Private Limited

If you come down to 158/9, Belilious Road,Kadamtala, you’ll find King'S Cold Storage Private Limited. It is a loud, industrial kind of area with a lot of trucks and narrow lanes. The main thing about working here is the temperature change. One minute you’re out in the humid West Bengal heat, and the next you’re stepping into the cold storage rooms where everything is freezing. We spend a lot of time in heavy jackets even when it’s ninety degrees outside. The building itself is sturdy and built to keep the cold in. It’s a lot of concrete and heavy metal doors that make a loud clanking sound when they shut. We have to be careful with the electricity and the compressors because if those go down, we’re in big trouble. There’s a lot of manual work involved, moving crates around and checking the thermostats. The office is just a small room off to the side with some old chairs and a computer that’s seen better days. You get used to the hum of the machinery after a while; it just becomes background noise. People in Kadamtala know us as the place that stays cool all year. It’s not the most glamorous job, and your hands are often cold, but it’s what we do. We don't have many visitors, just the drivers and the loaders mostly. It’s a practical place for a practical kind of business.