Mehta Tubes Limited, Mumbai

Mehta Tubes Limited is down on Avenue Road No. 5, specifically at number 55. We are near Chowpatty Godown Street. It’s a very industrial part of Mumbai, lots of warehouses and trucks. We’ve been operating out of this godown for many years. It’s a big, echoing space filled with tubes of all sizes. The air always smells a bit like oil and old iron. We spend our days loading and unloading. It’s heavy work and it keeps us busy from dawn till dusk. The street outside is narrow, so when a big truck comes to deliver, everything else has to stop. We’ve had plenty of arguments with drivers over the years. Inside, it’s mostly just racks and racks of metal. We have a small desk in the corner where we handle the billing and the phone calls. It’s dusty work, and your clothes are usually ruined by the end of the shift. We aren't fancy people. We just know tubes better than most. People come to us because we have the stock and we don't play games with prices or timelines. We've seen the city change around us, but this street stays pretty much the same. Just a lot of hard work and moving metal from one place to another. That is what we do every single day. It’s a simple business but it’s ours and we know how to run it well.