York Forgings

Our place is located in Miller Ganj Industrial Area B at number 831. It’s a forging unit, so you can imagine the heat and the sound of the hammers hitting the metal. It’s been our home for a long time and the walls are stained with the smoke of years of work. Miller Ganj is the kind of place where everyone is doing something with iron or steel, so we fit right in with the rest of the street. The morning starts with getting the furnace going and it stays hot in there all day long. We wear heavy boots and clothes that we don’t mind getting ruined by sparks or oil. It’s not the kind of job where you stay clean. We take our tea breaks sitting on whatever is around, usually talking about the work or what’s happening in the market. The trucks come in to pick up the finished forgings and it’s always a bit of a scramble to get everything loaded and out the door on time. Sometimes the power goes out and everything stops, which is frustrating but it gives us a minute of quiet. We’ve got old machines that have been around since the beginning and some newer ones too. It’s a busy life but it’s what we know. People know us because we’ve been on this corner for ages and we've put in the hours every single day to keep things moving forward for our customers and ourselves regardless of how difficult the day might get.