Parma Metal Plastic Works

Parma Metal Plastic Works is over on Shukhalaji Street in the Grant Road area. It is a very old part of the city and the streets are quite narrow. Our workshop is on the ground floor and it is full of machines for cutting and shaping things. There is always a layer of fine dust and metal shavings on the floor, no matter how much we sweep. We make all sorts of small parts, some out of plastic and some out of metal. The machines are loud and they make the floor vibrate when they are running. We have a lot of tools hanging on the walls and boxes of raw materials stacked in the corners. It is a bit dark inside because the buildings around us are so close together, so we have to use these bright tube lights all day. Most of the time we are hunched over a workbench or checking a piece of equipment to make sure it is working right. Grant Road is a place where there is always someone shouting or a horn honking outside, so you just get used to the noise. We have been here for a long time and the walls are covered in marks and old calendars. It is not a place for visitors really, just a place where we get the work done. We wear old clothes because everything gets greasy within an hour of starting. It is just how it goes here every day in Kamathipura.