Mahendra Limestone Company

You can find us at 6-21 in Banaganapalli, which is over in the Ongole area. We’ve been dealing with limestone for quite a while. It’s a dusty business, and everything we own seems to have a thin white layer on it. We have a lot of space for the stone, and it takes a lot of effort to move it all around. The workers here are mostly from the nearby villages. We aren't a corporate office with suits; we are usually in our work boots and covered in dust. The yard stays busy from early morning until late evening. Sometimes the trucks get backed up waiting to load, but we try to keep things moving. We don't have a big marketing department or anything like that. Most of our customers have been coming to us for years because they know where we are and what we do. It’s a straightforward operation. We just cut and move the stone as needed. The weather affects us a lot; when it rains, the ground gets muddy and slow. We just take the good days with the bad. It’s honest work and we take a bit of pride in seeing our stone go out to different building sites. We just keep our heads down and stay busy with the lime. There's always another load to get ready for the morning shift.