Sun Steel Craft

If you go down to Madurai North, specifically in S S Colony, you’ll find us at 521. We do a lot of steel work here. It is noisy most of the day because of the cutting and welding. The shop isn't very big, but we manage to fit all our equipment inside. Being in S S Colony is convenient for us since a lot of our material comes from nearby. We usually start early before the sun gets too hot, though in Madurai it stays hot pretty much all the time. We work on all sorts of steel crafts, from small gates to window grills and other basic structures. People bring in their own drawings sometimes, or they just tell us what they want and we try to make it work. It is a lot of manual labor. Our hands are usually covered in grease or iron dust by the end of the shift. We have a few old machines that have been with us for years and they still run fine. There is no air conditioning, just a couple of big fans that move the air around. We don't have a receptionist, so if the phone rings, one of the guys just wipes his hands and picks it up. It’s a straightforward shop where we focus on getting the steel bent and joined correctly. Most days are long but we like seeing the finished pieces.