Hindustan Scale Corporation

Hindustan Scale Corporation is down at 4 Dockward Road West. It’s a part of town that feels very industrial and close to the water. You can often smell the salt and the oil from the docks nearby. Our building isn't anything to look at from the outside, just a plain structure that houses all our heavy equipment and weighing scales. Inside, it’s mostly concrete floors and metal shelves. It stays a bit cool in the mornings, but by midday, it’s quite hot. We spend our time checking calibrations and moving heavy parts around. There is always a layer of fine dust on everything, no matter how much we clean. We aren't the type of people to wear suits to work; it’s mostly work shirts and sturdy boots here. We’ve got an old wooden desk where we keep the ledger and some basic tools. The area around Dockward Road is always busy with laborers and trucks, so there’s a lot of shouting and heavy lifting going on outside our door. We’ve been here a long time, and we know the rhythms of the docks. It’s hard work and it can be physically tiring, but there’s a certain satisfaction in getting things measured right. We don't use any fancy computer systems for everything, just simple methods that have worked for us for years. We just take each day as it comes and try to keep our equipment in good shape. It’s a straightforward business and we like it that way.