Veekesy Shoes Allied Products India Pvt. Ltd.

Our place is part of the Kinfra Small Industries Park in Chundale, which is near Kalpetta in the Wayanad district. It is a beautiful part of Kerala, but inside the factory, it is all about the work. We are Veekesy Shoes Allied Products and we make the parts that go into footwear. The weather in Wayanad can be very wet during the monsoon, and we can hear the rain drumming on the metal roof of the industrial park. We have rows of machines and a lot of workers who are very skilled at what they do. The smell of rubber and adhesives is pretty strong when you walk in. It is a big space with high ceilings and plenty of fans to keep the air moving. We aren't a corporate office; we are a production floor. There are stacks of soles and straps everywhere you look. We follow a shift system so the machines are running most of the time. Getting to the Kinfra park is easy enough from Kozhikode or Kalpetta. We have a simple lunchroom where the staff takes breaks. It is a hardworking environment where we focus on getting the daily targets met. We don't have any polished speeches. We just make shoe parts and get them loaded onto the trucks heading out. Most of us have been working in this park for many years now.