Combustion Research Associates

We are located out in Aurangabad village, near the post office in Jakholi, which is in the Sonepat district of Haryana. It’s a bit of a rural setting compared to the big cities, but it’s where Combustion Research Associates does all the work. The air is a bit clearer out here, although the roads can get dusty when the tractors go by. Parveen Kumar and the rest of us stay pretty busy with all the research projects we have on our plate. It’s a lot of testing and looking at data. We don't have a flashy office building; it’s more of a functional space where we can actually do the work without too many distractions. Being in a village like Aurangabad means we know our neighbors and things are a bit more relaxed than in a corporate park. We’ve been in Sonepat for a while and we like the pace of things here. Our work is quite specific, so we don't get a ton of random visitors, but we’re always here if someone needs to drop something off. It’s a lot of hard work and sometimes the hours are long when an experiment is running. We just keep at it. There’s no big mission statement on the wall, just a bunch of people trying to figure out how things burn and how to make it better. It’s a simple, honest setup we’ve got going.