Harpreet Engineering Works

Harpreet Engineering Works is at 2 Kambros Industrial Premises, which is part of a co-operative society on Sonapur Lane in Bhandup West. This area is very industrial and the lanes can get quite crowded with workers and vehicles. Our shop is a place where we do a lot of heavy engineering tasks. You can hear the sound of welding and grinding as soon as you step into the society. We have a lot of tools hanging on the walls and pieces of steel stacked in the corners. It’s a bit cramped, but we make it work. The staff here are mostly guys who have been in the trade for a long time. We don't have a corporate structure; we just decide what needs to be done each morning and get to it. The office part is just a small cabin where we keep the records. It gets hot in Bhandup, especially in the afternoons, so we have a few fans blowing all the time to keep the air moving. We don't use a lot of fancy words to describe what we do. People bring us their mechanical problems or their metalwork needs, and we just try to fix them. It’s a noisy, busy, and sometimes messy place, but it’s where we feel most at home. We’ve been a part of this industrial community for years and know most of the other shop owners around Sonapur Lane. We usually close up shop when the sun finally goes down.