Collapsible Tube Corporation

Our place, Collapsible Tube Corporation, is down in Lower Parel on S V Road 162. If you know this area, you know it used to be full of mills and factories. Now there are big glass buildings everywhere, but we are still here doing what we have always done. We make tubes for all kinds of things. It’s a mechanical process and the machines can be quite loud when they are all running at once. The building we are in has some history to it. It’s not like the new offices you see nearby. The walls could probably use a fresh coat of paint and the lights flicker every now and then. We don't really mind. It’s where we do our work. We spend our days checking the aluminum and plastic. It’s a very hands-on job. There is no corporate ladder here. Everyone just knows their task and gets on with it. Sometimes we have to stay late to finish a big batch of tubes. The traffic on S V Road is usually a mess, so we are used to the constant honking outside. It’s just part of the atmosphere. We are just a local factory that has managed to stay put while everything else changed around us. It’s a bit of an old-school way of doing things, but it works for our small crew.